The principals that I believe are fundamental to helping a human being move forward in life are:

• Finding out where they want to be in life
• Planning a way to get to where they want to be
• Motivating them to taking action on getting there

I consider an “ideal coach” to be someone that has belief in one’s potential to achieve, someone that is passionate about seeing people achieve, someone that is able to motivate people to take action, someone that can be relied upon and lives life aligned with their own values (at the risk of sounding cliche, someone who “walks the talk”).

I believe I display the qualities above on a daily basis when I am conversing with friends, family and work colleagues, however I sometimes let myself slip out of sync with my values and get myself in little ruts where I know I can easily get out of them (I have numerous positive references of doing it before) but I do not motivate myself to do so. I will take this as an action point to focus on coach myself on so I can become a more effective coach.

If I were an “ideal coach” I imagine I would be extremely fulfilled from helping people achieve their goals and seeing/hearing the differences I have helped make in their life. I have always enjoyed helping people and if I could make that my profession that would be great!