Life Would Be So Wonderful If Only We Knew What To Do With It (Greta Garbo)

This quote probably makes you smile knowingly as you think of how true this is. Life can be very slow to reveal itself even to those of us who feel we have a plan and we know where we are headed and why. I would have frowned myself at life coaching a few years ago and indeed looked on it as people needing help with things they should know themselves.

However I have learned a few things since and I am so impressed with the ability of life coaching to clarify your goals and make you achieve them that I have now trained as a coach myself and am offering coaching services.

What have I learnt through Life Coaching?

• Knowing is not doing. All gamblers and alcoholics know they should stop. Likewise we all know we should make the best of the life we have now but we often get delayed along the way. Coaching focuses our energy.
• We all need dreams and ambitions. Why do so many of us give up all our own hopes and dreams just because a partner or children may have their own dreams? You have nothing without your dreams and ambitions. Coaching is about you and if you cannot afford an hour a week on yourself you need to ask yourself why.
• You need to break large goals into small achievable steps and then you will fly along to your goals.
• Happiness is mainly a decision. In some of the poorest places you would visit people are happier than some of the richest people I meet. Happiness is a state of mind which you can move yourself into with our help.
• Change is not easy and fear of change is often what stops people achieving their goals alone. Your family and friends may be surprised when you change old habits. It is a lot easier to make some changes now than to live a life of regret thinking of all the things you would have loved to do.

At Make Me Rich we are now delighted to offer life-coaching services. Many people who come to consult with us believe that by making more money all their problems would be solved and as they reach their financial goals they begin to realise that money is not everything and in fact maybe they do not even know what they want from life.

Many more people are in a permanent state of waiting. Waiting to graduate, waiting to get promoted, waiting for the kids to get older, waiting to build an extension, waiting to retire. They feel that once they get all the jobs on their list done they will be ready to start living, enjoying their hobbies and spending more time with friends and family. The problem of course is that the list never ends and people muddle through the years living a life they are not happy or fulfilled in at all.

Life coaching is certainly about making medium and long terms goals but more than that it is about working on where you are now and helping people realise that this is it. Life is not a dress rehearsal and you need to make immediate changes to improve the enjoyment you get from life and make immediate moves to get the life you want.

There is absolutely no question that everyone can have the life they want. We all use excuses to avoid getting on with the work of shaping our lives. We will do it next year, when we loose weight, when the winter is over.

If your career, your family life, your friendships, your relationship, your personal development, your life plan and your finances are all in perfect shape the chances are that you do not need my help. You are also probably eligible for the Guinness Book of Records.

We all spend so much money on cars, houses, clothes and hobbies. Things that we feel will give us a lift of some sort. We spend no money on our own personal development. We would be far wiser to spend money discovering what will make us fulfilled and happy within the life we have.

For me I had spent enough to feed a small country on designer clothes, sports cars and moving to bigger houses without ever really thinking about whether these things made me any happier. When I stopped to think I realised that really I wanted to move to the country and spend part of the year abroad. I could have saved myself a huge amount of stamp duty and time by not following the crowd and consulting with a coach to get a list of my goals and objectives. Once I did this I have achieved them all easily.

If you are interested in life coaching the first session is free and can be done on the phone or on Skype. After that sessions are €100 (and make an ideal gift). A minimum of eight sessions must be booked in order to fulfil the goals of the course.

To stop the waiting and get your coaching started contact Catherine on:
Mobile  00353 86 6078872 or Email catherine@makemerich.ie