“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.”
--Ursula K. LeGuin

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Pete Terlaak
Certified Professional Coach
Phone - 206. 525. 6902
pete@coachforfreedom.com
www.coachforfreedom.com

What are the benefits of working with a life/success coach?

Take a look at your life. Is it what you had envisioned it would be? If it isn’t, what would you have done differently? Do you get up in the morning excited about what that day will bring? Are your relationships how you would like them to be? At the end of the day, do you feel good about how you have spent your time? If you would like your life to be different, what would it look like? What is stopping you from taking action and making those changes?

A benefit of working with a coach can be finding what you feel passionate about and creating opportunities to bring that into your life. When you live with passion, it makes the difference between existing and savoring every moment of your life.

An important key to living a different kind of life is being and staying aware of your own thoughts. Using empowering language and paying attention to your own negative and limiting thoughts, will have a tremendously positive impact. By working with a success coach, you’ll discover ways to recognize this negative thinking and move past it. By just noticing your limiting thoughts, you will be one step closer to choosing something different.

Life coaching is based on the principles of respect, accountability, integrity and a belief in human potential. The partnerships are short and long term goal oriented alliances that help clients become clear about how to get from where they are now to where they want to be. Once you have clarity, a plan is created and then you are ready to take action. Those are the components of living a life of choice.

How does coaching work?

You may have your own business, but it has not turned out the way you thought it would. It was a good idea but for some reason it is not working or you are just getting by. You don’t know what is keeping you from succeeding.

Perhaps you are in transition. You realize that you are not happy with your job. You want to do something else, but you just don’t know what. When you stop to think about it, you have been having these same thoughts for years. Maybe you have taken some steps by going back to school or investigating different jobs, but eventually things got back to where they were. You feel stuck. You aren’t happy, but you don’t know what to do.

By my asking questions and when necessary, challenging you to go deeper, you will discover the answers. When you know what is right for you, you are empowered to live a life of choice. When you make informed and deliberate choices, your life will be whatever you want it to be.

Through our alliance we will develop a plan to take action. While on your journey, we will take the time to look at what things are getting in your way and move past them. And, something that usually does not get much attention, we take the time to acknowledge and celebrate your accomplishments along the way.

Coaching vs. Therapy or Consulting

Counseling or therapy often focuses on why something is or has been, thereby dealing with past issues. Coaching is more focused on learning about current issues with the purpose of taking action.

Based on expertise in a particular field, a consultant gathers information in order to make recommendations to a client. Coaching is based on the client being the expert. The coach asks questions with the purpose of the client gaining clarity and discovering the answers for themselves. This empowers the client to make deliberate choices that are right for them.