Why does one need life coaching?
By: Niket Gupta
Tags: Life Coaching, Achievement, Purpose, Mindset Shift, Transformation

Before I answer this question, allow me to ask you a question. Why did you get the educational degree you have? Most of the time, the answer would be, you wanted to learn about a particular subject of interest. If you had wanted to learn software, then you would have done computer engineering. If you had wanted to study the law, then you would have done LLB. If you had wanted to grasp business management concepts, then you would have done an MBA. In essence, you opted for a degree that will help you learn subjects of your choice and make a career out of it. However, it does not matter which field you are in, there is one subject that is mandatory and precious to any individual, and that subject is LIFE.

You may contest that an educational degree was required before, and it is required now as well, but the same is not the case with life coaching. You may say that most of our elders spent their life happily without life coaching, and most of the people around us are also living their life without life coaching. Then why does one need life coaching? In my response, first, I would agree with what you have just said about people living without life coaching. But again, I would like to ask you a few questions. Are you sure everyone around you lived the best life that they could? Are you sure all of them lived up to the potential they had? And most importantly, are you sure everyone got happiness as per their definition? All these questions are essential to address and that is when the life coaching program comes into the picture.

Life Coaching brings self-awareness

Life coaching helps you know yourself better. It allows you to understand the meaning of happiness as per your definition. It is critical because all our life, we live by the definition of family, friends, and society and forget who we are and what matters to us. A life coaching program will bring self-awareness of who you are as a person and what matters to you.

Life Coaching helps you overcome your limiting beliefs

Over the years, we adopt beliefs that came to us through our family, friends, or our own experiences. We accept them without scrutinizing them. And even when we grow up, we do not question those beliefs. We do not realize that most of these beliefs are not serving us any longer. Forget about serving, they are limiting us from realizing our true potential and what we can become. And the worst part is, we do not even realize that such self-limiting beliefs are so ingrained now that we do not even think of questioning them. We see the world through the lenses of these beliefs which is not going to help us fulfill our purpose and live our life peacefully. The life coaching program helps you identify such limiting beliefs and gives you techniques to overcome them gradually.

Life Coaching empowers you to deal with your past

One of the major issues people face is that they remain the prisoner of their past. You might have experienced a fallout of a relationship or marriage, family feud, financial loss, career downfall, failed at an exam, backstabbed, some form of injustice, and many more. People get stuck at such experiences and can not move ahead because they see such events from only one and mostly negative perspective. A life coaching program gives you ways to deal with such past events so that they stop affecting your outlook towards life and take away your happiness.

Life Coaching guides you to become an achiever

People make a lot of resolutions at the beginning of the year. They want more income, improved health, more personal time, pursue hobbies, learn new things, go out on vacations, wake up early, eat healthily, get rid of procrastination, expand their network, and many more. But most of them cannot achieve these things, and even if they do, it takes way longer than what it actually should have taken. Many times, the pursuit does not even last for 2–3 weeks, and people get back to what they were before. The dominant reasons for such failures are lack of clarity, the right mindset, and respect for time. The lack of clarity means people do not know WHAT precisely they want to achieve and WHY they want to work towards it. Lack of the right mindset means your own beliefs and thinking blocks you from seeing that you can achieve your goals. The combination of both would restrict you from accomplishing your goals in a timely manner. A life coaching program helps you overcome all these barriers and gets you to result as per targets defined by you. The icing on the cake is that the program also gives you ways to sustain the momentum as it is understandable that starting something and maintaining something are two distinct challenges altogether.

So now we know why life coaching is vitally important. The next big question is, Who needs coaching?

The answer to this is simple. Anyone who wishes to improve his or her life can go for life coaching. Even the most skilled, successful people can benefit from coaching. Let’s accept the fact that all of has something in our life that we want to improve. And mostly, we don’t need to do something huge to improve. All we need to do is to bring clarity to life and make small mind shifts.

I hope this blog helped you to get clarity about coaching and how you can benefit from my life coaching program. Please drop your questions in the comment box. I will see you soon in my next blog. Take care. Stay happy.