Life Coaching
Life Coaching
"Coaching may not be magic, but the results are certainly magical!"
Jonathan Jay - The coaching academy.
About Personal Life Coaching
Life coaching is about getting the results you want in your life. It is about moving beyond your blocks and using your hidden talents to create the life you want.
The definition of a Life Coach is a relationship between two people, the coach and the client, it's about helping a client to achieve whatever they want in life, helping them with the realisation that they really can do, be or have what they want and require in their lives. Everyone has this potential within his or her grasp. An idea or dream can be taken and turned into a reality, coaching is about focus, intent, commitment and enthusiasm from both sides. Above all it is about results that can be seen, measured, experienced and quantified; in whatever aspect of your life you want to succeed. Self Development, Life Change and Improvement, Work / Life Balance, Self Confidence, Career, Relationship to Spiritual.
Life coaching is a twentieth-century phenomenon with roots in early psychological theories. Started in USA in the 80's, psychologists helping individuals who did not have problems relating to their past. People felt their lives were out of sync and lacked enthusiasm and balance in their lives. They felt there must be something better than this. Some psychologists dealt with a number of individuals like this and realised that these individuals were bored with their lives or stuck in a rut. They had no need to look to the past, they needed to deal with the present and create positive actions for a fulfilling future. Out of this Life Coaching was born.
"The aim of life is self development.
To realise one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
Oscar Wilde
What is the difference between Counselling and Life Coaching?
Counselling look to the past to help to find a solution and offer possible options, whereas Life Coaching is not concerned with the past, it is exclusively about the now and future. However both believe that the answers are within the individuals themselves.
What are the benefits?
You will get out of coaching whatever you want to put in. Coaching will help you to find;
- Time for the most important person in your life, YOU!
- Achieve peace of mind,
- An improved way of living,
- Develop and improve your self-confidence and maintain it with less effort,
- Feel more positive about your life,
- Feel good about yourself,
- Gain a new perspective on life and finally can help you to reach and achieve your goals in life!
Did you know?
Did you know that on average, we have 80,000 thoughts a day many of which are repeated day after day and in turn become our beliefs, according to Dr Alexander, approximately 75% of them are negative or limiting They take the shape and form of I should do... I won't be able to do... I can't do... I'm not good enough... I'm so stupid... This is all that life has to offer... It's just the way things are...
As Anthony Robbins says "beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy". You can talk yourself to success or to failure. Which will you choose? With a coach by your side it could be success all the way.
How can a personal coach assist?
A personal coach is trained to assist you in achieving the big goals and desires of your personal and professional lives. Clients gain amazing benefits from being coached. It drives them from where they are now to where they want to be, faster and more effectively than if they work alone.
How do the sessions take place?
Coaching sessions take place in one of two ways:
1. Telephone - it removes travelling time, and can save time and money. At the end of a coaching session, a convenient time is arranged for the next session, for the client to call the coach.
2. Face to face
Personal Life Coaching Testimonies
To preserve confidentiality, I have only included patient's intials. The case histories are included to demonstrate the power and effectiveness of the life Coaching.
Where SUD scales are used 10 = Bad 0 = Good
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Coaching Area: Personal & Family issues, Wanting to have start own business.
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"Personal Life Coaching with Nayana has been one of the best experiences of my life. I have always known my dreams but coaching has helped me to realise that my dreams are possible to achieve. All I have to do is work at them. Coaching has also helped me confront issues in my life, I thought best left alone. Coaching is definitely an experience worth exploring."
HP female aged 24
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Coaching Area: Loss of Direction
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"After the amazing results I have had from the coaching session you have provided, I have need to say a special THANK YOU to you for really bringing the best out of me.
I have found it very easy talking to you about sensitive and personal issue as you always reassure me of how you treat client confidentiality.
During the coaching session itself, you asked thought provoking questions that allow me to think outside the box. You provide amazing positive feedback that helps me overcome the difficulties I have created for myself.
Please can I personally thank you for the change I have experienced within myself during the coaching sessions. I have seen myself grow in confidence and my approach to problems over the time with the help of your coaching.
Please keep up the good work and I am sure others find you just as useful as I have. I have and will certainly recommend you to my friends."
HS, male, age 34
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Coaching Area: Loss of Direction, relationship issues,
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"The benefits of coaching can literally be summed up in say 2 words, LIFE CHANGING!
For an individual to follow a certain path in life, and not fully understand the associated risks to mind and body, would eventually lead to a complete breakdown mentally and physically of that individual.
On a more personal note, for the last 4 years, I had been engaged in a bitter divorce battle with my ex-wife, and over this period my health had suffered considerably.
That was until a friend recommended Ms Patel, and asked me to speak to her concerning my day-to-day life and the problems I have faced and still to overcome.
With Ms Patel coaching and guidance, those 2 word at the top of the page actually now mean something to me.
She has shown me that there are more constructing things I could be doing with my life, and the help and various treatments she has applied to me have considerably restored a sense of normality, that has been missing for some time.
I found the hardest part was actually admitting that something was wrong, with Ms Patel's coaching I have found there is light at the end of the tunnel and I can once again bring peace and order to my life and be content and happy!"
Shavinder Raulia, Male, aged 39
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Coaching Area: Wanting to start own business, and find a better work life balance.
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"Please can I thank you for the amazing session you gave, I found it very helpful in achieving my goal and taking the actions positively.
I found it very easy talking to you about my issue and found that you were very patient and listened to me. You asked very good questions that made me think in the right directions and clear all the fuss around the issue.
Please keep up the good work and I am sure others find you just as useful as I have. I have and will certainly recommend you to my friends."
NS, female, age 31
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Coaching Area : Have her work published and find a better work life balance.
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"When I made enquiries about how coaching might be able to help me, I was stuck in a rut at work and unsure where I should be heading in my career. I had a feeling I wasn't really doing what I felt was the right thing, and I was physically and mentally tired and felt too close to what I considered to be general problems to be able to sort them out. I really needed to stop the treadmill and take proper time out to look at the grey areas in my life - which even an hour or so every couple of weeks provided. Previously to my coaching sessions, I hadn't ever allowed myself to consider things properly and this left me feeling there was a general grey kind of apathy hanging over my life which needed addressing, but which was non-specific and difficult to pin down. Looking at my life goal chart and discussing it with Nayana, it became apparent that the greyness was really an awareness in the back of my mind that I wasn't achieving what I felt I needed and wanted to achieve in various areas. Unravelling the barriers to the goals, and on occasion, the actual goals themselves, was an enlightening experience and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to address them. Life coaching has made a marked improvement in how I approach my life, especially by helping me discover my goals. It has given me the tools to continue appraising different aspects of my life and taking positive and successful steps towards achieving my life goals. Thank you Nayana!"
CC, female, age 29.
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Coaching Area : Coaching: Relationship issues, lack of motivation
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
..................... Together with, Nayana's Life coaching sessions have helped me overcome a relationship break up, and much to my surprise I found myself in a new, exciting and loving relationship, much quicker than I had envisaged. My confidence returned very quickly with Nayana's help. There is so much on offer at Holistic Tranquillity, that I can see me being a lifetime clientele, for my never ending quest for personal growth, fulfilment and for service to others."
Male aged 56
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Coaching Area : confidence building
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"I have found the experience of life coaching very constructive, talking through things that I want to change or achieve has helped to clarify issues. Also making a goal plan and actually writing points down has encouraged me to do them rather than just think or talk about them.
Nayana's approach is very inspiring she is very easy to open up to, non-judgmental, positive and has a caring balanced attitude with some great ideas.
I really appreciate Nayana introducing me to life coaching; the result has been significant changes, some minor and some major.
Overall I'm very happy with this experience and will continue to use the techniques to aims towards the things I want to do.
Thanks Nayana."
LJ, Female, aged 39
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Coaching Area : Relationship issues, better work life balance
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"My experience of Life Coaching with Nayana was very helpful to me.
She guided me on how to look at myself and my life, and how to make decisions for myself to make changes or if happy with a situation not to. I was able to see a clearer picture of myself and I was able to set goals and make changes in my life in areas that I am in control of.
She helped me to understand myself, being encouraging with questions to help me explore myself. She explained things well, going over again anything I didn't understand, being very patient, I felt relaxed with her.
I am positive about my future, thanks to Nayana."
SB, female, aged 56
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Coaching Area : Relationship issues, lack of confidence and self-esteem
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"Nayana has been life coaching me from the time my husband had left me. At the time I was devastated and in a terrible state, I felt my life was over and there was no point in my existence. I had no confidence and self esteem, I was extremely over weight and just very unhappy. With Nayana's support, coaching and various treatments, to my surprise, I gradually began to feel better and stronger in myself, and learned to change my attitude and approach in life. Today, I am a different person, with all the hurt and anger banished. I feel happier in myself, I am confident and have a genuine smile on my face. With time, I have also noticed that many of my health conditions have improved or balanced out. It also gave me courage and will power to take positive actions to reduce my weight."
EJ, Female, aged 54
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Area : Career - Meeting sales targets
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
" Nayana has a way of asking just the right thought-provoking question to help me see what possibilities and options are available to me. My main aim was to increase my sales by December (I first visited Nayana for my life coaching session in September) this was broken into little steps which I focused on, these were set specific achievable steps and within a couple of months I had reached my sales target. I feel optimistic for my plans for the future; she has made me see that if I believe in myself and put my mind to it almost anything is possible."
GP, female, aged 39.
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Coaching Area : Relationship issues, lack of confidence and self-esteem, anger management
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"Before my Personal life coaching with Nayana I felt lethargic and on edge, I blamed other people for things that were not their fault. I began to realise that I was wasting my life falling out with people and expending my energy in the wrong way. After my session I felt elated and good about myself. I am more relaxed and at ease with others. I am not so aggressive, especially when driving and realise it is futile shouting at others."
J T Eddy, aged 63, male
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Coaching Area : Career Coaching
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"During my coaching session with Nayana, she asked me to score many aspects of my life like; work, friends finances, relationships etc;
I'd never actually broken my life down like this before; normally we treat our lives as a whole. In the following session to follow, the 8 lowest scoring items were written at the centre of a chart called "The wheel of life". Each item was analysed in turn with actions and goals set to improve the situations. Initially it was too hard for me to work on my lowest scoring item - my relationship with my husband, so we focused on the other areas and made improvements by setting achievable and desirable goals. However these changes highlighted even more the main problem in my life - my marriage.
There was no magic want or pill to help with this situation, I had to decide between: -
1. Stay with a life that was comfortable in the materialistic sense with a man that loved me but where I wasn't happy and thought that I might go mad.
2. Leave and live on my own with all the uncertainties that this would bring plus the great guilt of deep hurting someone.
After a lot of heartache and coaching I eventually chose 2.I feel a lot calmer now and I know that it was the right move for me at this moment in my life. I wouldn't have been able to do this without the coaching, support and treatments from Nayana. It is very difficult to leave someone for whom you care. However I believe that if I had stayed then these emotions would have eventually turned to hate but by then it would have been too late to start a new life.
Some of my low scoring items were easy to solve once the actions or lack of actions had been recognised.
During our life we slip into many habits without realising or questioning our actions, which is where Life coaching comes in.
Looking at and changing my life was painful but I now feel a little more in control and happier
PV female, aged 52, 2006
Update on me
It about 6 months since my last testimonial & my life has continued to change. I've now left my job & I've even left the country but the latter is only for 3 months. I had a very strong desire to do some voluntary work in South Africa. During my stay in SA, I've done some amazing things 'for me'. I've ridden an elephant, a horse, been up in a microlite & driven a quad bike. Life is fun.
It would have been more difficult for me to cope with all the changes in my life without the support & healings from Nayana. I know that I'm doing the right thing for me even though it may seem illogical to others. Nayana helped me to focus on what I wanted & was able to reassure me that I'd made the right decisions.
Over the last 10 years I changed from someone who only used logic to make decisions to some who now uses intuition. The greatest changes have happened during the last year with the help of Nayana.
PV Jul 2007
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Coaching Area : Career Coaching
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"I feel that through the coaching I have developed positive ways to define specific and realistic goals whcih I fell ready to take forward myself successfully and with confidence."
CC female.
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Coaching Area: Heath, Financial, family work life Balance
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
" During my personal life couching session with Nayana, we reviewed various aspects of my life and I was surprised at what was highlighted and realised there were a number of areas that needed to be addressed. During the session it really made me consider my children's future, which lead me to look at my current housing situation and realised for long term security, I really needed to consider the aspect of purchasing my home, and therefore we looked at options as to how I could try and achieve that. Another key area that was highlighted was my finance. Before my coaching session I had taken no control of my money and financial situation. I didn't realised just how much I was spending and how I was using my credit card. Spending money that I didn't have! One of priority during the session was to firstly to consider how I was going to pay off what I owed. And my first step towards that involved me cutting my card up then and there. Following my coaching session, I began to breakdown my income and outgoings and starting to become more organised and prepared.
Whilst addressing my weight issues, it also made me consider about my children's diet and their health. During the session we explored how I could achieve that. Since that session, I made changes to my children diet and cut out junk foods, 2 months on, my children are looking healthier, they've all lost some weight, and my youngest daughter laughed and said "mum my trousers are falling down!"
Life coaching has made me focus positively towards my important areas in my life and given me hope to move on and achieve things. I feel stronger and confident in myself as it has made me recognise and allowed me to unleash the strength I have within myself. 2 months on I can say its working; I see positive changes in myself and my children!"
JJ, female, aged 37.
Update on JJIt's been nearly a year the above testimonial, JJ has just finished her 1st year at college doing an evening course, she has started to learn to swim, something she always lacked confidence in. She finally decided to secure her children and her future by taking steps to divorce her husband, and save the house from being repossessed. Has organised to take on the mortgage to the house, and as also managed to revamp the space to make it more stylish. Subsequently, having spent the last 11 years at home looking after the household, she has now started her own mobile business, which allows her the freedom to work round her children.
July 07
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Coaching Area: Financial diffiuclties, family issues.
Treatment protocols: Life coaching.
Patient Testimonial:
"At first I wasn't quite sure what to expect from the life coaching sessions and how it could help me with any of my problems.
When I first started the sessions, my life was filled with numerous worries from my financial situation, bills, family problems, kids behaviour and attitude, worry about loosing my home, worry about my dad, who in turn was worried about me, having to tolerate attitude from family and lack of communication between each other. I had no support from anyone and felt I was carrying everyone; there was no light at the end of the tunnel. I was feeling tired and drained.After the 1st coaching session, I noticed how it made me stop and think about things and made me more aware of certain areas in my life and my reaction to the problems. I was worrying all the time about everything and my mind would just be churning overtime, it would drain me. Nayana made me realise worrying wasn't helping me to solve my problems, so what was the point? The session exercises made me address various areas in my life, which made me realise that what I thought was priority wasn't. It made me recognise that I actually needed to focus on my youngest son. Thereafter during each session we would set goals and Nayana would probe me to consider the various actions I could take to achieve my goals.I decided I needed to spend more time with my youngest son N R. So when I had a week off, we spent a Saturday morning doing a car boot together, during the week, I went and helped him look for a job and in the evening watched him perform in his band, we got on really well and had a nice time together. During one of the coaching sessions Nayana and I did role-playing and we aimed towards preparing me for my job interview for a second part time job, and explored actions, posture, attitude and approaches I could take in the interview room. On the day, I was calm and not nervous at all. N R had also got an interview, so I was able to pass information to him to consider. After 3 sessions over a period over 5 weeks, I'm surprised at how the situations have changed in my life. I feel more chilled out. I feel I can cope, I am more confident and most importantly feel more relaxed in myself. With the actions I have taken, I feel I have offloaded a burden and know in the future I will be better off. I feel better about my family, especially N R who has got himself a part time job, and since have noticed an overall improvement in him mentally and physically. He looks different in regards to posture and how he carries himself. He has started to make an effort in the way he dresses. Previously, I was quite embarrassed of how he looked, but now it makes me feel proud and it's made him grow up.I have also noticed that in general the relationship between family members have improved, especially between N R and his grandfather. I also noticed the boys actually talking, it really warmed my heart when I heard them chatting in their room. Before my older son M R resented N R because he wasn't pulling his weight in the home and they would be at each other throats, destroying my furniture at the same time.I feel more chilled out, if I had carried on as previously, I think I may have had a nervous breakdown! Now there is light at the end of the tunnel."
AR, female aged 49
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