the KEY

The key to a successful coaching is often through the ability to listen at a heart level. When we listen to how someone expresses their joys, feelings, sadness, excitements, disappointments, we can almost hear the true heart’s cry beneath all that is being expressed. And through powerful questioning, feedback and encouragement, the true desires of our lives may surface. And when we recognise our true desires, we also come in touch with the strength and the power to be who we are. However, for some of us, due to some negative experiences of the past, some of these desires may be hidden. A life coach is capable of drawing this out as they partner together in a journey of discovery, by being honest, reflecting and taking responsibility. Being in touch is the foundation of living a fulfilled life.  When we know what we really want, it becomes easier for us to know how we can get there. We possess all that it takes to live a fulfilled life. The choice for us is to make the journey and start the great adventure of being alive.

 

These are some of the things we work through with a Life Coach.

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  • Listen to your Desires As simple as it sounds, these desires are often buried deep within.  Often, the so call demands of life suppress the true desires and leave us unfulfilled.  Recognising the true desire of our hearts is such an important part of being who we are.
  • Verbalising your Goals – When our desires are clear to us, we can work towards a goal (or a few goals).  When we know where we want to go, we can chart our direction.
  • Exploring realistic plansIt helps when someone listens to us, gives us feedback about our ideas and encourages us to take the next step to move forward.
  • Removing Blockages – Some of our negative experiences from the past might hold us back from doing the best that we can, dreaming a bigger dream than ever before, feeling exciting about ourselves and the likes.  If we can name these negative experiences and understand how they are acting in our lives, we might be able to overcome them.
  • Using your strengths as you move into actions (exercuting) – What you have often done well and enjoying doing them are called “your strengths”.  It is the thing that will carry you, not your weaknesses.  We must know our weaknesses but we cannot depend on them to take us further.  It is our strength that will give us the power we need to change, move and reach our higher potential. (“higher” because as long as we are still alive, change is always a fact).
  • Evaluate your achievement Evaluating your journey will give you more insights of all that has happened.  How was it for you?  What did you actually do?  How well do you think you did whatever you set out to do?  At this point, it is also crutial to have some feedback from someone who have journeyed with you.  This feedback should also include a closer look at our inner journey.  As we face the self, our strengths and our limitations, our joys and sadness, our reactions; we will be able to make better choices in the future.
  • Celebrating your Wins – Taking time to celebrate achievements in our lives is so important.  It marks our accomplishments and honours our effort.  This will only give us more reasons to do even better.
  • Live the call, the life and who you are – Through these steps, we will come to appreciate who we are, the unique person that God has created us to be.  You are the only one who have these unique strengths and  the only one who is able to bring these blessings to the world around me.  And when we do that, we begin to live a life that is more fulfilled.

Responses

  1. Nancy's avatar

    Hi Derek, I am new to ICA and have scheduled my first class for today at 3pm EST. I am so excited about the journey I am about to begin! What you have written on your blog is very inspirational. I can feel your passion for your mission in your words. God bless you and may your journey bring you great joy! Hope we meet in the halls of ICA. Nancy

  2. Derek Chong's avatar

    Thanks Nancy, for the encouragement. I have been away for a few days and was visiting friends around Germany. The more I talk and think about it, the more I seem to set my heart to do this, using coaching as a tool to help others to recognise their “call” in this life and live it to the full. God bless and hope to hear you in one of the teleclasses.


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