"If what's in your dreams wasn't really inside you, you couldn't even dream it." Gloria Steinem

What Is Coaching?

Michaelangelo was being observed one day as he was creating a sculpture. People were amazed with what they saw as this blank piece of marble started to become an angel. When asked, how do you do that? He said, I saw the angel in the marble and released it.

This is an apt metaphor for life coaching. Without attempting to change who the clients are, coaches make powerful impacts on their clients’ lives. The relationship between the life coach and client creates the space for discovery and release of what wants to happen in the client’s life.

What will I get out of coaching?

Are you stuck? Tired of the daily grind? Feeling lost not knowing what you want? Do you feel on the edge of something BIG and you’re scared or confused about moving forward? Do you keep putting off pursuing what you really want until you have enough time or enough money?

While making changes may be desired or even necessary, fear and doubt can hold you in a rut of “making a living” rather than living a life you love with a satisfying career.

Coaching is a vehicle that moves you into
Being who you want to be,
Doing what matters most to you, and
Having more than you dreamed possible!

Career Coaching

Results my clients have experienced include:

• Changing work habits that create more enjoyment in their job
• Finding a new job in line with their life purpose
• Starting a business that expresses their values
• Gaining self-confidence and skills to make choices that honor their personal values
• Increased fulfillment and work life balance
• Increased financial abundance
• Creation of a compelling vision for their whole life, resulting in actions that increased satisfaction in all areas - spiritual, financial, relationships, physical health, leisure, etc.

What’s your dream?

Let’s face it, there isn’t a lot of support for doing what makes us happy. Not many of us are told, “Hey, do whatever makes you happy!” without caveats like: …as long as it provides you a good, responsible living OR as long as it isn’t too far out of the norm and doesn’t create embarrassment for the family, OR as long as others don’t disapprove of you.

Granted, there may be a time and place to consider the validity of these caveats, but we’ve created our entire lives around them. So, we find ourselves living small, distrusting whatever makes us happy or interests us, and feeling stuck with limited choices and living in fear of disapproval. Our comfort zones are only so big and what we really want is just a few feet outside of it. Our dreams and true happiness are too big to fit inside. To put it frankly, we want more and the world deserves more from us!

Coaching - the catalyst that takes you now to WOW!

In coaching, we explore what the space outside the comfort zone looks and feels like and through action and experience you discover what’s possible there. Coaching helps you learn to live from outside the comfort zone where you get to experience the fulfillment of acting on your dreams.

Whether you’re coming to coaching related to creating a better relationship, improving your finances, or finding a meaningful career, coaching impacts you and therefore the changes will be seen through all areas of your life. Career coaching can assist you during the uncertainty of planning for a new career or job, by helping you define a job path that will give you satisfaction, financial abundance, and fulfillment.

Coaching isn’t therapy or counseling

Coaching is not therapy, and your coach is not a therapist. Therapy takes a look backwards in time to heal, understand and seek closure on troubling events, attitudes or behaviors in the past. Coaching begins with your life today and moves forward as you recognize and take true responsibility for using your strengths, gifts, insight and talents to create the life you want.

Keri Coffman-Thiede
608-592-1765
amazingu@merr.com