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4 Sessions with a Life Coach Giveaway

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My dear friend and mentor Elaine is a life coach. She received her life coach training at the Center for Advancement of Christian Coaching. Elaine is offering four life coach sessions to one lucky winner of this giveaway. This is a wonderful opportunity to work with a very special and insightful lady who can help you move forward with some of your New Year’s resolutions and goals.

Here is what she has to say about life coaching?

Proverbs 20:5 says, “The purposes of the human heart are deep waters, but those who have insight draw them out.” Have you ever had a nagging feeling that you really knew the answer to some challenge in your life but just couldn’t quite put your finger on it? Do you ever have so many thoughts whirling around deep within that they seem to elude you? As one very successful businesswoman put it, “My dreams and potential were within me. I just needed someone to draw them out.” That someone was a life coach.

Life coaching is a one-on-one relationship between a trained coach and a client for the purpose of bringing about change the client wants in her life. Coaching focuses on how to move forward from the present to a better future, and follows the premise that the client, not the coach, is the expert on her own life. Christian coaching believes in the client’s ability to solve her own problems based on the Holy Spirit within her and her own unique experiences.

How does coaching work?

The coach and client contract to meet by phone at predetermined times, usually twice a month, for an hour. The client sets the agenda of things she would like to change in her life, and the coach helps her accomplish that agenda through “SMART goals.” The coach has received extensive training in active listening and in asking what we call powerful questions that promote self-awareness, exploring options, and developing action steps that move the client closer and closer to her SMART goals. Throughout the process the coach provides encouragement, support, and accountability. Clients often experience “aha” moments and gain new insights that give them confidence to do things they never believed they could do before. And because the answers to problems are their own solutions, not things told them by others, there is much greater “buy-in” and motivation to change.

When my husband and I first began our training to become life coaches, we were practicing on each other and I asked him to coach me on getting my desk area organized. That may seem like a very small thing, but the constant clutter had bugged me for years and resulted in a continual low-grade anxiety that important things were being overlooked. Yet I felt powerless to change it. My husband is very organized and could have just told me what to do, but instead he asked me questions and encouraged me to think of options on my own. His confidence that I could find solutions myself enabled me to come up with many ideas, and within a half hour I’d found ways to solve what before had seemed an insurmountable problem. That seemingly small victory has given me the confidence to tackle bigger problems and make other needed changes in my life.

Life coaches help people in every walk of life define core values, set and pursue concrete goals, and discern and live their unique life-purpose. In businesses, organizations, churches, schools and families, life coaching is producing amazing results in the lives of people who are being coached. I’m curious: can you think of areas of your life that would benefit from life coaching?

What do you have to do win this wonderful opportunity?

Tell me a goal or resolution you made for the year. It doesn’t have to be what you would like to discuss with Elaine. (1 entry)

For extra entries do any or all of the following leaving a separate comment for each entry.

*Visit Center for Advancement of Christian Coaching and tell one of the resources available. (1 entry)

*Visit Center for Advancement of Christian Coaching and tell me one of their Guiding Principles. (1 entry)
*Write about this giveaway with a link back to it on Facebook or another social network site. (1 entry)

*Enter another giveaway that I am hosting. (1 entry for each giveaway you enter)
*Follow my blog. Leave me a comment saying that you now follow or that you already do. (1 entry)
* Twitter about this giveaway with a link back, you must also be following me on Twitter. Copy and paste: 4sessionswithalifecoach@JDaniel4smom. (1 entry per day)

*Subscribe to my blog. Leave me a comment saying that you have subscribed or that you already do. (1 entry)

*Favorite me in Technorati! (2 entries)
*Add me to your blogroll. Please leave a link to your site.(2 entries)
*Add my button to your blog. Please leave a link to your site. (2 entries)

That is 11 ways to win. The winner will be chosen by using the random number generator at http://www.random.org/. )

This giveaway begins January 10th and ends January 27th. It is open to U.S. residents only.

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Comments

  8. One of the guiding principles at CACC, is that coaching should be a one-to-one relationship with the client geared towards growth, change and forward-moving progress for the client.

  15. hi… my only resolution is to keep up with Project 365 this year http://365bysarae.blogspot.com/

    and… thanks for visiting my other blog… and yes, they always scooter in their flips and apparently do very fine even though everyone can’t believe it… one of my neighbors gives them trouble all the time about it

  16. I’m retiring this year and I’m trying to learn how to relax…it’s hard after so many years of working.
    Mary

  17. My commitment that I wish to make stronger is to leave everything better than I found it, everytime!

  18. My goal for this year is to run an organized home for my family. I recently became a SAHM after leaving the corporate world and my children are 2, 3 and 4 so you can imagine the chaos. I am homeschooling all three children for pre-school and at times have felt overwhelmed.
    maureenruble@yahoo.com

  20. Oops. My goal didn’t post. My goal for this year is to lose my last 15 lbs.

    rebeccalynn78 at gmail.com

  24. One of my goals is to spend less time worrying about little things and to give myself some more “me” time to recharge!
    cbeargie (at) yahoo.com

  27. I want to improve my life in general. Better relationships, better job, better health. Less worry.
    Thank you so much for this giveaway.

  30. One of my goals for this year is to be more patient and less fussy with my tween daughter.
    ahartup at yahoo dot com

  32. Honestly, I didn’t make a resolution for this year. I have issues with staying on task with my ADD. It’s too depressing to fail.

    ~Mimi
    mnjesusfreak at gmail dot com

  33. I really like their principle of Equip and Release. I’d love to have her come to my house to show me how to organize my home and equip me to keep it that way. From there, she could release me to do it on my own.

    ~Mimi in MN

    mnjesusfreak at gmail dot com

  40. For the new year I’d like to tackle one area of taking care of myself a month (i.e. getting more sleep, exercising, eating better, drinking more water, taking better care of finances) developing better habits as I go along.

  41. my goal this year is to get more disciplined in prayer and scripture…spend more time with God everyday!!

  48. To get over my illness is one of my resolutions for this year. Thanks for a great giveaway!

  67. HONOR. Our willingness to treat others as special
    and worthy of royal treatment echoes the coaching
    perspective of others as “creative, resourceful, and whole” in Christ.
    This resonates with me.

  71. To go out with my husband alone after nearly 9 years.. and to relax every so often would be great!

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