FAQ's

Q. What is life coaching?

A. Life coaching is simply one person coming alongside of another for a portion of life's journey. It includes the emotional support of encouragement and cheerleading, and the practical support of defining values, goal setting, achieving dreams, enhancing relationships, and much more. Coaching is not counseling. Coaching does not look at problems and offer therapeutic, counselor initiated solutions. Coaching instead, allows you, the client to discover the answers on your own (with the help of exercises and assignments) and then to build a vision and move forward.

Q. Who needs coaching?

A. Anyone who feels stuck, unmotivated, going in circles, unfulfilled, or lacking direction will benefit from having a life coach. Coaching can be helpful for someone who would like a different perspective, or needs accountability, or wants to change, but struggles with implementation. Anyone and everyone will reap benefits from life coaching!

Q. Is there an age limit or minimum?

A. No, there really is no age limit or minimum.

Q. How long does coaching last?

A. Coaching can last for as short or as long as you, the client, needs it to be.
I strongly suggest a minimum of six sessions, after the first free consultation.
Much of the information that I have available is structured for a period of six weeks or sessions. But, the coaching is based on the clients needs and may be structured differently at any time. The client ultimately decides.

Q. How long is a session?

A. A session should be at least twenty minutes in length, and may extend to a full hour or more. The session length depends on what you, the client needs on that particular day and week. Typical length is approximately one half hour to forty minutes.

Q. How often are sessions scheduled?

A. Sessions are usually scheduled once per week. Due to the nature of the conversations and allowing time for completion of any exercises or assignments, it is not recommended that more than one session a week be scheduled.

Final Thoughts
 

The Chief End Of Man Is To Glorify
God And To Enjoy Him Forever.

How do we glorify God?

One way to glorify God is simply to fulfill the dream that He has placed within your heart.  He put you here for a reason, and you must learn what that reason is and then act.

A second way to glorify God is to become His child by accepting the Lord Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord.  He (Jesus) is the only way to come to the Father.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.  When you choose God's way above your way, you glorify God.

A third way to glorify God is to bear fruit; allow the Holy Spirit to work in and through your life.  Partner with God in His work to transform you into the image of Christ.

A fourth way to glorify God is to share His love and serve out of gratitude.

How do we enjoy God?

I don't know about you, but until recently I had trouble understanding this part of the Westminster Shorter Catechism.  It seemed logical to me that we were to glorify God while we were on earth, and we would continue to glorify Him in heaven.  Our enjoyment of Him would also be in heaven.  However, enjoying God is not something we do in heaven only, in some distant future.  We can enjoy God now.  I read or heard that we enjoy God when we take pleasure in His creation.  That may be true.  But, let me offer this.  We enjoy God when we are content in Him.  There may be several ways to experience this contentment, but I will share one.

When we are in His awesome presence, communing together, and there is not a thought or concern outside the relationship that we have with Him, that is enjoyment.  When there is no desire to be anywhere else, no desire to be with anyone else, when there is no thought of what we should or could be doing, when we just want to be with Him forever and love Him and know His love and acceptance for us, to be absorbed with every word He says, and understand that everything we will ever need is found in Him, then, we have discovered how to enjoy God.  When we are in this place, our existence, bills, obligations, dreams, fears, and struggles do not, cannot break into our awareness.  It is as if we are cocooned briefly with Him in eternity and temporal things have no place here.  This is, momentarily, true contentment and enjoyment.

However, God knows that there is importance to our temporal existence, and our experiences, obligations, dreams, etc. do matter.  So, He gently brings us back to earth, leaving us awed, energized, and eager to serve and please Him.

Links
 

Professional Christian Coaching and Counseling Academy