Prepare for Life Coaching

The following questions will help you begin to form goals before a life coaching relationship.

They are not intended to identify specifics, but rather encourage thoughts or ideas.

Please take a few minutes to sit quietly with the questions, writing down your answers on a blank sheet of paper.

What current goals (if any) do you have relating to the following areas:

Your work

Personal performance / effectiveness
Career development, progression
Ability to lead / manage others
Motivation, fulfillment

Your lifestyle

Work / life balance
Social life
Hobbies / Interests

Your relationship with others

Your partner
Your immediate family
Your friends
Your extended family (relatives)

Your learning / development

Life experiences
Formal training / development

Your sense of contribution

At work
At home
In your community

Your health / well-being

Health
Nutrition and eating patterns
Fitness, exercise, relaxation etc.

Thinking about your current circumstances:

What would you like to do less of?
What would you like to do more of?
What would you most like to change right now if you could?
What's going really well for you right now and you'd like to build on? E.g. do more of it, or make it even better.
In what ways do you currently obtain learning?
- By experience, i.e. doing things
- Formal study, e.g. taking qualifications
- Through observation of others
- Reading listening to audiotapes, etc.
- Structures training, i.e. courses
- Mentoring or coaching relationships, e.g. discussion, feedback
How much does your level and style of learning support your goals and objectives?

Summary

Hopefully, you'll now have gained a better understanding of the possibilities available through life coaching. Perhaps you've also begun to think about your own situations and goals and are beginning to imagine how life coaching might support you.

If you are preparing for a life coaching relationship, please bring your responses to the above questions to your life coaching session. Your life coach will then be able to help you clarify your thoughts and ideas further.

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