Coaching: Focusing on Solutions

& Getting Results You Want

by Irene Lebedies

You cannot teach a person anything;

you can only help him find it within himself.

–  Galileo Gallilei

Just as an athletic coach helps players train and condition to reach their individual and team goals, a life coach can help you reach your personal goals and family goals.

Through coaching, you will:

• Gain new tools and have more energy to deal with issues

• Make better decisions for yourself and your family because your focus is clear

• Learn how to be firm and loving, tough and fair -- at the same time

• Learn to be your true self – self-confident and strong

• Experience a greater enjoyment of family and life in general

• Develop a balanced life that works

• Take better and smarter action through goals and purpose

A coach is a highly-trained individual who will work with you in a partnership of honesty and trust to create the purposes and goals that you want for your self and your  family.  This may include new ways of looking at parenting, disciplining, communicating, or relating to your spouse and to your children.

A coach helps to illuminate what is happening right now, distinguish the real issues, build new skills, challenge you to use new approaches, support you, and find new solutions.

Coaching is always about you and where you want to go, what goals you want to reach and what the difference is that you want to make.  A coach will inspire you, energize you, and support your learning, development, and positive action.  A coach truly believes in you!

Coaching differs from therapy in that it deals with the present and future and does not go in depth with issues of the past.

Coaching works when you – seeing the gap between the present reality and the goal – are willing to learn, grow, and take action.