Robert Neely Articles

What does it take to become a Life Coach? - Click To Read Article
If you are considering whether to take life coach training and then become a life coach, this article will help you to understand the skills and training you will need to become a good coach, and to understand the working life and lifestyle of a life coach.

Types of Life Coaching - Click To Read Article
Coaching has evolved and matured as time has passed and as the understanding and impact of coaching has increased coaching has become more specific. It is now possible to find a Life Coach for almost any subject or specific area of your life or with a specific approach or philosophy to suit any set of beliefs, values or creed. There is still however a 'mainstream' of Life Coaching that deals with the general issues of 'life improvement' or 'personal development' from a non-domoninational and neutral perspective. Even within this so-called mainstream however it is worth understanding that coaching comes in a number of formats and structures, explained in outline here.

Running a Life Coaching Business - Click To Read Article
To become an effective Life Coach, you will need certain skills. You will also need to approach your work with a certain set of attitudes. It's worth confirming in your own mind that you are ready and able to go through the development you may need to equip you as a Coach. If you're not, don't bother. You should also take on board that unless you work for someone else (and there aren't many Life Coach employers out there), you are going to be self employed as a Life Coach. That means you are going to have to manage all the aspects of your working like that you may not have had to concern yourself with.

Navigating Career Change with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) - Click To Read Article
Redundancy or job loss can bring about the effects of a mid-life period for many people. 'Midlife Crisis' is a period of change and discomfort that many of us experience at some point during our lives. Midlife is a natural process (first identified by the psychologist Carl Jung) and it is a normal part of 'maturing'. However, Midlife can sometimes feel very uncomfortable, and cause many people to seek psychotherapy or counselling, or to make a radical lifestyle changes that can be very damaging and are regretted later. Midlife can, on the other hand, be a period of evaluation and refocus of our lives according to a deeper sense of purpose.

Mindfulness For Business People - Click To Read Article
Business leaders are now examining the efficacy of Mindfulness and Meditation to reduce stress, improve concentration and increase overall performance at work. This article discusses what mindfulness is and explains how to begin to find out about mindfulness for yourself.

Life Coaching Skills - Who Do You Work For? - Click To Read Article
Your clients, and prospective clients are people, not your pay check. I’ve made this mistake, especially when I have needed work, and it’s a mistake that will separate you from your income, not connect you to it.

Life Coaching - Power Coaching Questions - Click To Read Article
Almost all coaching training includes questioning techniques. Certainly any reputable coach training should. Mine did. However, it was only from experience of thousands of hours of coaching that I learned that some questions, when used at the right time and in the right context, have much greater impact than your usual questions create.

Life Coaching Questioning Skills - Don't Install Your Own Preferences! - Click To Read Article
For all Life Coaches, it's critically important to 'keep it clean'. This means keeping your own issues out of the coaching process and out of your mind while you are working with your client. It can be really easy to fall into the trap of getting invested in your own thinking, especially if you identify with a situation.


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