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Why should I invest in coaching?

When was the last time you settled for second-best because you thought you couldn't have what you wanted, or thought that you needed to compromise, or didn't know yourself how to get what you actually wanted in life?

Now imagine how life could be if that was actually the last time that happened - how your career, your relationships, your family life, your health, wealth and your personal growth would be if you can have what you want! That's how powerful coaching can be if you want it.

Some people look for a coach to help them improve their performance at work, some to help them find a way to give themselves freedom from a bad habit like smoking, not eating healthily or repeatedly getting into relationships that aren't good for them. Others look to find a coach to provide them with assistance in finding ongoing and increasing success on a weekly or monthly basis. However, in all cases, those who seek a coach have reached a point where they say to themselves, "I want to be more than I have been, I deserve more than I have had in the past, and I want to be more successful and happy with myself and the world around me."

So what is coaching?

Most people immediately think of sports when you mention coaching- football or athletics for example, and that's a good place to start to think about what coaching is. Coaches have a vital role to play in these and other sports, otherwise individuals and teams wouldn't invest in them. They work with the players and take them beyond what they have so far achieved on their own, advising them, giving them another point of view on their capabilities and, with the benefit of their experience, helping them find the skill and will to go higher and further than they thought possible.

In a similar way to a sports coach, a high-performance coach, on a personal or business level, works with their client to help them set relevant 'want to' goals (rather than 'need to' or 'should do') and find the resources and motivation to succeed and go beyond them, overcoming and removing any obstacles on the way. Coaching can be applied to any part of life - to career, relationships, health, money matters, or personal image to mention a few.

What clients often find to their surprise is that the biggest obstacles come not from outside but from within, from their own ways of thinking, their own beliefs about themselves and the world around them. The biggest positive changes we make occur when we change what goes on inside our minds at both the conscious and (often more importantly) the unconscious level. Referring back to sports coaching again, this idea is borne out at the highest levels of competition. For example, in the 100m Olympic Sprint final, what separates the winner of the gold from the winners of silver and bronze is not physical ability as it's sometimes only a matter of hundredths of a second between them as the cross the finish line. What really makes the difference on the day is who wanted to win more than the others and who believed they could win. Those things all occur first in the mind which then drives the muscle.

The difference between performance and high performance is simply this - anyone can set goals they know they can achieve; a high-performance coach will work with you to set goals that will stretch you beyond what you used to think was possible, and then have you surprise yourself by achieving even more than that.

 

How is the coaching structured?

Coaching is a partnership between you and me - a relationship and, as with all relationships, what we do together will depend on what we both want out of it. Our initial discussion will be to determine what you want: the type of coaching and the outcomes you'd like from the partnership. What I want is simply your total success, as my success as a coach depends on the continual success of my clients.

Depending on the type of coaching you want (described here), our professional relationship will last from as little as a few hours to anything up to a year or more. At the end of our contract, you are free to choose whether we part company, whether we continue as friends, as other clients have, or whether we begin a new contract for further coaching.

 

Sounds Great! So what if I invest in coaching?

Coaching has the potential to affect every area of our lives if we're willing to focus our attention on those areas. You will potentially:

• Gain a greater understanding of who you are through your personality profile - your values, purpose in life, your strengths.

• Gain increasing control of your 'state' - your physical, emotional and mental processes by resolving past issues, experiencing the present cleanly, and viewing the future with all its potential.

• Understand what motivates you so you can use it to set 'want to' goals instead of 'need to' or 'should do' goals.

• Learn your own self-coaching and relaxation techniques for personal use.

• Find your unique path to true personal excellence.

There are a few questions you need to ask yourself to find out if you're as serious about this as you need to be:

• Are you ready to work with a coach now?

• Do you have a specific outcome or outcomes in mind?

• Are you prepared to invest the time and money to refine those outcomes and work towards them?

• Are you ready to take full personal responsibility for your success?

If your answers to those questions were all "YES!", just take a moment to imagine what could be... and having imagined what could be, there's no reason why you can't make it happen now!

So use our contact form, email info@iceandlemon.com or call 0845 111 0360 now for a string-free initial talk about you and your dreams!