How to Be Your Own Coach and Uplevel Your Results
As a business person, having a coach can bring you many benefits, including putting you on the fast track to success. But sometimes the timing of hiring a coach isn’t quite right but you know you need some support. Have you ever considered the possibility of being your own coach? Being the one that holds you accountable? Being the one that brings out the best in you?
Yes, while hiring a coach can produce amazing results, the best coach to level you up just may be the one that's inside you! After all, no one knows you better than you do.
As your own business and life coach, you can set your life on a different path. If you are deliberate and systematic about coaching yourself, you may end up discovering things about yourself that you never knew were there. These discoveries can make you happy and bring you more success and fulfillment than you've ever known before.
Let face it: your path in coaching yourself may not be the same as if you hired a coach, but you can achieve your intention of making positive steps forward towards your most important goals. And even without someone coaching you, you will be more confident and successful - believing in yourself and trusting in yourself.
Follow these tips for a positive experience in being your own coach:
1. Write down your expectations. Figure out exactly what you want to accomplish in your "sessions" with yourself. (I suggest that you have an extended session with yourself once a week). Do you have certain expectations? Explore how you're going to meet those expectations. Here’s a form that I use when I do a coaching session which will work well with self coaching: Coaching Pre-call Form
2. Give yourself adequate time to coach yourself. Just as with a hired coach, give yourself time to sort through your thoughts and make plans. Schedule regular weekly 30-60 minute meetings with yourself and go over an agenda of items that you can reflect on in terms of both progress and challenges.
3. Write down your positive attributes and your accomplishments and be grateful and even do your best to celebrate yourself. As much as possible, you as coach should aim to focus on the positive. You might want to learn to do tapping (my favorite tool) on your negative feelings so that you can easily move beyond any hard emotions and start to energetically focus on all the things that you like about yourself and the things that you have accomplished. Make that list of the things you're good at, you're happy about, and you've accomplished in life - and then reflect on it often.
4. Concentrate on the end goal. It’s important to know where you want to go. Start with the big picture and determine your big juicy goals both in business and personal life and then draft a plan to help get you to your beautiful targets. You will probably have more than one goal in mind, and if so, plan for all of your goals. Keep those end goals in mind regularly and imagine yourself getting to where you want to go.
5. Discover how to motivate yourself. Since you know yourself best, you'll be able to figure out which motivators work best for you. What has motivated you to accomplish tasks in the past? In addition to tangible rewards, use motivation techniques like tapping, dancing, laughing, affirming, visualizing the good or positive anchoring in order to keep yourself on track so that you don't fall victim to procrastination.
6. Make changes. If you've identified changes that you want to make in your life, now's the time to plan those changes. Rather than jumping into drastic changes all at once, guide yourself through a series of smaller changes for greater success. Identify your blocks and limiting beliefs and use tapping, affirmations and visualization (or your favorite tool) to work through them in baby steps, celebrating every few feet.
7. Check up on yourself on a regular basis. Hold yourself accountable to you, as your coach, at regular intervals. Are you happy and on the path to achieving your goals? If not, where are you currently lacking? During a checkup with yourself, you can identify problems before they get too big. Then you can set yourself onto the right path again.
Coaching is what’s happening these days in sports and business to get you performing at your best. And while being your own coach may be challenging, but it can also be truly rewarding if you really go for it. In the process, you'll learn some beneficial skills that will help you for your entire lifetime. You may find that you've become more self-sufficient. In addition, your confidence and self-esteem will soar as you guide yourself to achieve your ultimate goals.
You can (and should) always explore the opportunity to have a trained coach steer you through life's challenges. I’m super happy to offer you a complimentary Clear and Unstoppable You Strategy Session. Just reply to this email (or send a message to [email protected] and I’ll send you a link to my calendar.
Joe Mitchell, Esquire is a High Performance Coach and EFT (Tapping) Practitioner, who has logged over 35 years of in-depth study of personal and spiritual development. In his studies, he has done hundreds of self-development courses, spiritual retreats and health-related workshops. Coach Joe is a certified yoga teacher, meditation teacher, NLP Practitioner and a graduate of three coaching academies. Two years after he graduated from Harvard Law School, he became a monk for five years. In 2016, after over 20 years as a solo criminal and personal injury attorney, he decided to turn his heart's passion into a career as a Success Coach, Motivational Speaker and Trainer. For information on Coach Joe’s programs, high performance videos and to apply for a Free High Performance Session click the following link http://www.activateyourgreatness.com/free-session