Do I need a coach? 5 Signs You're Ready for Change (Part 1)
If you’ve clicked on this article, chances are you’re wondering about coaching — and whether it might actually help you.
There are so many kinds out there: life coaching, business coaching, mindset coaching, transformational coaching…it’s easy to get overwhelmed.
Let's break down what coaching is and why someone might decide to get help from someone else.
Why coaching at all?
Here’s the simplest way I can put it:
When you go to see a professional, you’re asking someone with expertise for help. When you need to get medical advice, you go to a doctor. When you have questions about your hair, you go to a stylist. When you see a coach, you're asking for help for a specific problem the coach has expertise in.
A coach helps you get where you want to go — with more clarity, support, and accountability than you could get on your own.
There are all kinds of coaches out there: career coaches, leadership coaches, fitness coaches, life coaches, business coaches.
Some focus on goals and productivity.
Some help you shift your mindset
Some help with grief
All of them are working toward one thing:
Helping you become someone who can move through your life with more freedom, clarity, and choice.
So if you:
Have a problem that needs to be solved (maybe even tried on your own and still can’t solve it!)
Need help getting clear on what you’re goals are to solve the problem.
Need help identifying the barriers to said goals.
Don’t understand how to create a realistic path forward to achieve your goals
Need help staying accountable to the version of yourself you're growing into
Then coaching may be for you.
You’ve probably heard about life coaching.
A life coach usually helps someone set a direction, gives guidance with career and/or personal challenges, and provides support and accountability along the way.
Usually, it is a specific problem in your life that you think the coach can help with. Maybe they’ve gone through this problem themselves, or they are an expert in their field with a wealth of knowledge they can bestow.
The more specific types of coaching usually follow a similar pattern, but are tailored to that specific niche. People seeking help in a specific niche can benefit greatly from someone who has deeper knowledge of the subject, experience guiding others through similar challenges, and personal insight into the problem they’re helping to solve.
Whether or not you need a coach is up to you. If you're facing a challenge and believe a coach could help you solve it faster, more effectively, or in any other way that matters to you, it might be the right choice!
If you’ve asked yourself any of these questions while reading this:
My goals haven’t made the change I want them to, and achieving them doesn’t seem like it’ll help me feel satisfied with life. Why is that?
Why am I still stuck, even though I’ve worked so hard to feel better?
Why does it seem like no matter what I try, I keep ending up in the same negative cycles?
Despite going to therapy, reading self-help books, and maybe even life coaching, I feel trapped in the same negative patterns.
What if the problem isn’t that I’m not doing enough, and that doing so much has maybe been the problem?
That’s where transformational coaching comes in.
In the next post, we’ll explore what transformational coaching is, the kinds of challenges it’s meant to address, and the shifts it can create in your life.
This is from the series “Stuck Between Who You Had to Be & Who You Truly Are - Coaching Explained.” This is the first post in the series. Future posts will link back to this one.
