Despite popular beliefs as a Life Coach, you do not just spend time talking about a client’s problems, but rather, you help provide practical, proactive, and proven ways to create the life they want! That’s it folks. So simple yet SOOOOOOO complex. Becoming a life coach, provides the opportunity, to help people who want to move forward in their lives and be the best they can be NOW.
There are many reasons why people become Life Coaches for sure. But for me there were about 13 important ones….I love to help people! I always have. Ever since I was 3, I said I wanted to create a space where people could go to disconnect and figure out what they wanted in life! I find great joy in contributing to helping others! Our Retreat space on Shugar Mountain in Oregon offers just that Safe space, clean thinking!
Being a Life Coach is an expression of my higher purpose! I LOVE my job and it is extremely rewarding! I always felt there was more to life and greater purposes than those that Society teaches us… go to school, get a degree, get married, make a lot of money, retire, travel, and die… sound familiar? As a Life Coach I am proud that I can help others use their gifts and finally work toward what they were meant to do based on their Dreams!
I am proud to say I live in harmony with my values and I love it when I see others doing that too!! Some values for others might include – being of service to others, talking about things that matter, make contributions to the world, helping others achieve their dreams and goals!
I love it when I can see others start to live in accordance with their values. As a coach I often see people living in conflict with their values and working the bottom line instead of doing what is profoundly important to them. I love helping others figure out how to align themselves with their values and being true to themselves. I love helping others carve out a life that works for them to their highest abilities!
I love as a coach that I have lots of flexibility. This means that I not only always have time for my clients (within reason lol) I ALWAYS can make time to do the things most important to me… which is being in Nature and allowing its healing properties enter my life daily! I love working with clients to help them find their flexibility. Doesn’t matter if you work in an office, remotely or some other place there can always be flexibility if you want freedom enough!
As a life coach I am my own boss… Love this but then again, I learned that we are all our own Bosses of our personal life’s right…. If we all took a look at being the boss of ourselves, our life’s and are dreams we could and would have a plethora of personal wealth, right? What is that personal wealth…happiness, being healthy, our abilities, our accomplishments, and yes paying ourselves with giggles, laughter, and smiles! These are the things that make everything worthwhile!
As a Life Coach I wanted to learn better communication skills. I always wanted to improve these skills. As a life coach I have done this (well in most instances… I’m still a work in progress) but I love also showing others about the importance of connection and communication! You see communication is a cycle: You say something to another, it must be heard by that person, and then an acknowledgement is given by that other personal and received by you. That just is the way it goes and when that is interrupted, if any of those things don’t happen, it is a broken line and therefore it goes nowhere…. I Love seeing others faces when they feel heard and acknowledged and they see how to use this in daily life!
By becoming a Life Coach, I got to follow my dream of being a hippie, a dreamer and free! I love that I can live my lifelong dream of being a hippie… yup been saying that since I was 3 (my poor parents). Ok, seriously, being a Life coach does not equal to being a hippie, but it does mean I get to work with others who are looking to live their dreams, to get unstuck and to become excited about their life passions through support and solutions to make them happen!
By Becoming a Life Coach, I wanted to take positive actions to creating my own life! I did this, but I realized that I also get to show others this is possible, despite what we are taught from childhood. Be a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant… etc. Before you go there…. nothing is wrong with these professions btw if it is truly your life passion I had to use something as an example so I used all the things I was told to be… I just want people to see they have options of living their life through their dreams and plans.
Becoming a Life Coach taught me creativity and boy did it call to me as Life Coach! I know for a fact through many years of failures and craziness, that there is no such thing as a cookie cutter approach. I am a testament to this for sure on a personal level… I OWNED it! Now I get to work with all sorts of people and professions to help guide with many different solutions and ideas to some of the same problems. One which resonates with the person I am working with, so they are happy and not just happy because someone else told them to do it “this way” for it to work.
I became a coach to explore myself. I wanted to know what made me tick, what made me dream, what inspired me and what frankly I wanted to stay the hell away from… But the biggest accomplishment of this part of my “job” lol is watching clients have that “aha moment” where they just start smiling a lot all the time. Not because of anything other then they like themselves and they see that they are worth it and that their gifts are amazing…. No matter the job or way they live btw…
I become a Life Coach to experience things that were happening to me in the now and to allow myself to enjoy things now without worrying, guilt or regret. I wanted to move forward in my stagnant life which was full of office time behind a desk, doing the same thing over and over and over and yes, I had money. What I found as a Life Coach is that watching people working on and living in the NOW is amazing. Yes, I acknowledge we all have pasts, and we all have issues from our childhood, and throughout our time here on earth. But as a life coach I get to work with people to move forward in the now… How rewarding this is to watch someone realize and acknowledge issues they have from the past that really affect them but know that they can work on that with the appropriate professionals while still being able to learn how to move forward and live in the NOW to experience things in real time. So satisfying to learn that all our moments in life are made up of NOW moments, the past present and future are all made up of NOW moments. Learning to deal with the past is important but learning to live in and deal in the NOW is imperative to happiness!!
This is probably the most important one for me. I became a Life Coach to experience Nature. I found that NATURE is the only thing on the planet that does not judge, and it allows you to be just who you are, no matter what clothes you are wearing, the weight you carry physically or mentally, no matter your size, color, or personality. It allows you to just be who you are. By working with my clients in Nature (not everyone btw don’t let this scare you) we have been able to conquer walking 10 more steps than ever thought possible, to be able to laugh or cry in front of a tree and to survive without complications, and to tell the universe loudly at times what one wants out of life! It is an amazing experience in the NOW which is so powerful I can not even express it here other that to say it is LIFE CHANGING…
For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to just fit in, be a productive member of society and to be free to live life to the fullest. I am now doing that. But more importantly, I am doing that while helping others learn to see that it is possible to do RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW! I am proud to be a Life Coach, but I am even more proud to be able to help others live their lives on their terms, to be living happy, peacefully, and free in the NOW!
I am looking forward to many more years of growth as a human and many more watching others see that they too are amazing humans and are capable of anything they want. If there is one thing, I have learned through this work. it is that what you are seeking is ALWAYS seeking YOU! No matter what age you are, what your size or color, whether you can walk 100 miles or 20 feet, etc. etc. YOU are one of a kind and have a beautiful unique light to share with the world, right NOW, in this moment! I thank you for that!
Peace and Happiness
