First they will help you to decide what your goal actually is. This might sound silly but if you think your goal is to make more money for example, how will you do this? Are you going to ask for a rise in your current job? Are you going to seek new employment that pays more? Are you going to have a look around for ways of earning a second income? Are you going to look into running your own business? You see there are a lot of things to consider when setting your goals and it is important to be as specific as possible because the more specific they are, the easier it is to stay on course to achieve them. Let me explain.
Imagine you are going to a city for the first time. You know the city is well sign-posted so you are happy to drive there yourself. You follow the signs on the motorway and then something happens up ahead to cause long delays. You take the next exit off the motorway and head off again in the general direction of the city. A little further along you come across road works that appear to be causing chaos so you turn off again and try to find an alternative route. This ends up being a long way round and you get a bit lost. You then eventually pick up a sign for the city centre and so head off in that direction.
This goes on for several hours. You have still not yet reached your destination. Why not? Well you never actually said where in the city you were going. You had no specific place in mind so nowhere specific to head for. The outcome was that you spent most of the day skirting around the perimeter of the city but never actually getting to where you needed to be which was in the city. If, however, you had set a specific destination you would have taken the most direct route the get there. It would have been a far quicker and more painless journey.
Your Coach then is your SatNav. She will keep you on course and make sure that you are heading in the right direction overall – even if you do go off course a little from time to time. So going back to our goal of making more money she will have established what means you are going to accomplish this by and make sure that you are taking the appropriate action each week or month until you achieve your goal. This may be checking that you applied for those jobs you said you would send CV's off for, or asking you why you hadn't if that was the case. She might then put some more action points in place to help you to overcome those particular obstacles the next week or month.
The point is that a Coach will help you shorten the time it would take you to achieve that same goal on your own. He/she would also be able to give you some good advice along the way that would save you making mistakes that others had made.
If you are interested in learning more then please visit my website www.thomasjonesconsultants.co.uk. Or if you have fancied being coached but are not sure whether you would like it, why not try my 60 day challenge which is an online course (with me) but emailed to you to do whenever you like. Special price until the end of the year!
http://thomasjonesconsultants.co.uk/60-day-challenge/
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