Sometimes we need a little different perspective on things in order to get back on course with our lives. It’s easy to drift and sometimes in the right currents drifting through life doesn’t turn out too badly although the person may not feel a sense of fulfillment when all is said and done.

All of us need some introspection from time to time, we need to look at the things that are influencing us, the things that are stirring the currents around us, and we need to decide if we really want to go that way.

Enter the life coach. A good life coach will draw you out and help you understand where you are, where you want to go, and help you realize a plan to get there. It all comes from questions.

Here are four simple questions that are at the heart of all life coaching, if you look at an answer them several times a year, you will lay the foundations of success:

1. Where are you now?
2. Where do you want to be?
3. What are your roadblocks?
4 What are you going to do about them?

These simple questions will help you gain perspective and direction in your life, your business.  Put the questions/answers in your journal and check back on them later.

Remember, your life coach doesn’t answer these questions, you do – so you can begin now with just the questions.  Your coach helps you come to these questions and helps you look at them.  When you draw out the things within yourself then you’ll have a good perspective on how to get there.

Life coaching has been around for ages.  I believe that ancient divination methods, despite whatever else they might have been, were also at some level life coaching.  Take the I Ching – of The Book of Changes.   A person comes to it and asks what the next year may bring.  He casts coins or yarrow sticks and the Oracle speaks.

It has always been interesting to me that the advice of the I Ching comes in two parts.  Some information followed by the admonition: “The Superior Man, in accordance with this…” and some more information.

Like a good life coach, the I Ching leads you into looking at yourself and your situation but lets you as the superior man/woman be responsible for the decision reached.

And so it is with a life coach.  A life coach is in a sense a modern oracle who can have a profound impact on those who approach.

If you’d like a list of 50 power questions to ask yourself or someone you are trying to help get on to a better life or improve their business, or if you are interested in life coach training go here: Become a Life Coach.

“Peace, be still!”

Serenity

The result of applying the principles of As A Man Thinketh. Of recognizing that your thoughts are the creators of your world. James Allen writes:

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the
result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is
an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary
knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.

The things that you think about are what you become. If you think empowering thoughts, if you see the result that you want, then not only will you have achieved but you will gain serenity. Allen in As A Man Thinketh echo’s many of the same ideas that Wallace Wattles expressed in The Science of Getting Rich. The idea of thoughts controlling your experience in the world is a common theme in the books. These two books go together in putting your mind and actions in harmony with the law of attraction.

Earl Nightingale expressed it as: “you become what you think about all day long.” Earl has a wonderful presentation called “The Greatest Secret” that also picks up the theme and echo’s Allen’s words. Earl talks about the heard mentality that exists whereby we do the same things we see the other guy do. At the end of it all we have passed through life but haven’t really contributed to it. We grow old watching TV after a hard day at work. Not much to show for 80 or so years of life.

So in what way should we turn, James Allen says it all comes down to your thinking. Examine your life and think about what you want to accomplish. Really examine it. Remember what Socrates said, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” Examine your life and it’s trajectory. Perhaps you want to pick a new target, start visualizing that target and being grateful that you have already hit it.

The belief that it is already done will give you confidence to take the action you need to take and lead you to the serenity that Allen writes about in chapter seven. He ends the chapter with the words of Jesus, “Peace Be Still.” Words to keep in mind when the storms of life hit. Words that Jesus used to still the waters, words that have been handed down to you still energized with power. Serenity is yours: “Peace Be Still!”