The Unpredicted Benefits of Life Coaching

When I initially made a decision to investigate the potential for life coaching I believed I would be doing it to help others! I had no idea that the largest beneficiary of this sort of training would be me?

I have always wanted a profession that would help make this world a much better place to live. Even when I was a small child, I believed I'd make a superb psychiatrist (just like Lucy in her five-cent booth in the Charlie Brown animation.) In fact, it seemed that throughout high school and university many of my friends came to me for assistance and comfort regarding their love lives, their social antics and their occupations. In actual fact, I had been always there for them, especially in a crisis. Think about how shocked and dismayed I was to discover over time that nobody was there for me when I was in need of some compassionate encouragement and assistance. After college, my friends were growing up, having children and drifting away from me and I couldn't seem to get my own life going. I had been depressed, had no relationship and was in a job where my intuitive abilities were thrown away on micromanaging the complications of a middle management type with OCD.

I learned later in my life coaching training that I didn't consider myself to be of any value until I was rescuing or helping other individuals. While this was an excellent thing in certain ways, it also meant that my own life issues had been placed aside every time that I put someone else very first.

The outcome of all my commitment over the years was that I was nearing 45 and I also had absolutely nothing to exhibit for all my kindness besides a vacant bank account, a bored mind plus a life with barely any intimacy. I realized also, that I hadn't achieved my target of becoming a psychologist, counsellor or psychiatrist and that I couldn't afford to get back to university. My search for a job that could make honest utilization of my instinct and desire to be compassionate quickly brought me to a course that not only introduced me into life coaching but in addition healed me of my personal self-sabotaging habits at the same time. It educated me in that my specific model of philanthropy was really a form of procrastination!

Even though I had somehow chosen a life coaching profession as a way of continuing my life-long routine of helping people it had the ironic benefit of teaching me how to put myself first. Apart from getting a worthwhile career that allowed me “to do what I adore therefore the income would come” I additionally discovered the courage to take myself out of the role of observer of life and be more proactive in my own self-development. I learned the way to nurture myself and gain thoughts and circumstances that would eventually guide me to much better well being, enhanced self-esteem and fulfilling social and sexual relationships.