Examples of meta-programs are:

Reason-Filters (Focus on possibility – “I can..” vs necessity – “I must…”)
Action-Filters (Active, Reflective, both, Inactive)
Attention Direction (Self, Others)
Primary Interest Filter (people, places, things, activity, information)
Chunk Size Filters (specific, global)

I only partly agree. Yes, work is always part of our lives. Even if we are fortunate enough to do the work we love, lucky to love the work we do or just work in our or someone else’s business to make a living, there are even more areas than just work that make up our lives.

There are also our social or emotional relationships, there is our health, our personal and professional development and how well we are connected spiritually with source. All those aspects impact on each other and together make what we experience as our life. The correct expression should therefore be ‘work-intellect-social life-health-emotional relationships-spirituality-balance.

You will agree that this term sounds a bit silly, wouldn’t you? I would love to propose using ‘w.i.s.h.e.s in balance’ or simply life balance or even work-life harmony instead.

But no matter how we want to call it, what we ultimately always strive for is living a fulfilled life, which means balance and harmony between all aspects.

Living a balanced or harmonious life means having  resources to relief, manage or prevent stress and remembering to refer back to them when necessary, knowing how maintain a comfortable harmony between our personal and professional responsibilities and having some fun, joy and bliss along the way.

Transition Guidance is passionate about work-life balance, life balance or work-life harmony (however you choose to call the opposite of a stressful life) and offers many options for stress relief, stress management and stress prevention.

What is your perception?

For some people, seeing a coach is something they would never do, because

a) they are the lonely wolves, who want to do it all by themselves
b) it would be like going to a psychiatrist (“where you go when you need to be fixed”)
c) they think they can’t afford it
d) they don’t feel worthy or important enough or
e) they have no idea how they could benefit from having a coach

To be blunt and honest: if someone belongs to one or several points from a) to d), coaching would be perfect, because those beliefs, which are neither supportive nor motivating, can be easily changed through simple strategies that are in the repertoire of any good coach.

In regards to the benefits – assuming that you found the coach that fits your expectations, the result is the same as it is with networking:
What you get out of it is in direct proportion to what you put in. If you come with a “we’ll see”-attitude, you will get “we’ll see” results. If you are committed to doing what it takes to get where you want, that is exactly where you’ll go.

Coaching is about supporting you to take on leadership over all parts of your life. To take on responsibility for your actions and non-actions and to be comfortable with it, knowing, you do the best you can. It is about offering choice where you could not see alternatives before and finding answers where you did not even have the questions you need to move forward. Coaching is about allowing you to see further than you would dare to and prepare you to pass the obstacles that may arise on your way to get there.

Why do athletes have coaches? What do they get out of it?

[Tony Robbins'] coaching has made a remarkable difference in my life, both on and off the court. He’s helped me discover what I’m really made of and he has enable me to see things from an empowering new vantage point.
With Tony’s help I set new standards for myself and taken my tennis game – and my life – to a whole new level. [...]

This is what Serena Williams, 8-times Grand slam winner and Gold medallist, got from being coached by Tony Robbins.
Does Tony know anything about tennis? Well, definitely not more than Serena.
Did he ‘make’ her anything? Not at all.
Did he support her? Definitely!
Could someone as successful as her still improve? Obviously.

If people like Serena Williams, Tiger Woods, Andrew Agassi and so many others, who already have a life others dream of  get benefit from coaching – do you think there is something in it for you?

As a logical consequence, Transition Guidance also draws on the “Well-being Business Academy” founder’s experience in the wellness industry to support well-being practitioners like massage therapists, meditation-in-motion teachers and personal trainers to start, maintain and grow their business from first idea to thriving in and after the first year.

What coaching is not: it is neither counselling nor therapy or training, although it might contain parts of all and compliment them beautifully.
Recent research has confirmed that training that contains coaching elements is much more effective and sustainable than training without them.

So what is coaching really? And why does it seem to be so difficult to describe? One of the latest definitions I found may explain it:

“Coaching is a solution that is waiting for a problem!”

What does this mean?

Coaching has as many facets as there are challenges out there.

Athletes and sports professionals understood the benefits of coaching long ago. Nowadays being a ‘technician’ is not enough. Talking to Sydney 2000 Beach Gold Medal winner in Beach Volleyball, Natalie Cook, she cemented that she never would have won without the coaching support she had.

Coaching acts as an accelerator for transformation through questioning and challenging beliefs, strategies and choices people making in all areas of their life