How can I Find a Good Life Coach When I Don't Know What to Pursue in Life?

My job as a life coach is to help you find your purpose in life, set realistic goals to work on and make you accountable for those goals. A life coach will support you in improving your mindset, personal skills, relationships, career, etc.

Usually, people come to a coach for two purposes: They know what they want, but they don’t know where to start or what steps to take. Or they are stuck because they lost their sense of purpose.

Believe me, everyone in this world, for a moment in their life, feels lost and without a sense of purpose. This is because we let life run over us instead of running our lives.

A good life coach works through conversations. In these conversations, the coach will:

· Actively listen to you and ask questions to clarify or confirm your message.

· Help you to reinterpret the narrative.

· Dig down into your values and help you find what is holding you back.

· Help you to make a clear statement of what your goals are.

· Help you to create a plan of action.

· Support you to make the most of your skills.

· Help you to be more self-aware.

A good life coach is not:

· A therapist or psychologist: Life coaches don’t delve into your past or traumas. They don’t need too much of a background to help you progress. We don’t handle mental health.

· A counsellor or consultant: Life coaches will never tell you what to do or how to do it. It is through conversation that the client starts to create their plan of action.

A good life coach will work on sessions. They can have packages of 4, 6, 9 and 12 sessions. I usually have a discovery or chemistry session first, completely free of charge. It’s just to get to know each other, set the pace and scope of the following sessions, establish what to work with and agree on the number of sessions and price.

The ultimate goal of a life coach is to help you develop by yourself all the tools and skills you need to become independent and accountable for your decisions in the future. We are like training wheels; we support you for a while, but you must ride the bike without them. When this happens, we are no longer needed because our clients can fulfil themselves and create their paths and plans. That’s when we are not good life coaches but the best.