Life Coaching: Motivate to Reach Your Goals and Sustain Success
New Jersey Therapist and Life Coach, in Marlton NJ, Voorhees NJ, and Cherry Hill NJ (856) 352-5428) Contact NJTLC
This sounds so familiar: you start working towards a goal, intending to reach it without delay, but as time and life move forward, you lose focus and stop trying. Let’s look at everyday life for a moment: work, family, kids, more kids, pets, and your relationship. You dream big but can’t make it happen. Your motivation fades, and your vision is lost.
Why do life coaches exist at all? Reread the above. Working with a life coach can keep you disciplined and focused. Your coach keeps you on track and accountable. Do what your coach tells you to do! That’s how you’ll reach your goals and make your dreams a reality.
Discover What Motivates You
But, as coaches, we don’t just say “POOF” and your life miraculously changes. Our job is to uncover what truly motivates you—your personal “why.” Whether your goal is to start a business (and work for yourself - I highly recommend it), get promoted, or move forward in your career, fix or improve your relationship or marriage, or just want to feel more fulfilled, we help you connect your goals to your values. Motivation becomes natural instead of forced when your actions align with your core beliefs. Do it because you believe in what you are doing.
One of the biggest challenges you face when trying to meet your goals is starting with excitement and energy, then stopping. You hit a wall—self-doubt, procrastination, or fear of failure get in the way of goal attainment. Your life coach will keep you accountable and will “keep it green” by reminding you why you are doing what you are doing. We help you remember why you started in a specific direction in the first place.
Accountability
Accountability is huge. How many times have you “let yourself off the hook”? When no one is keeping you accountable, it’s easy to get lost. It’s much harder to quit when you have a coach helping you stay on task and hold the commitment you made. Your life coach provides the support you need to stay consistent and help you celebrate the wins. Accountability builds momentum, and momentum builds success. This is how to motivate.
However, you must create structure to sustain your level of motivation. It isn’t just pushing harder. As a life coach, I work with you to break your larger goals into smaller, achievable steps. Every time you conquer a step, you will feel a sense of confidence. What seemed impossible in the beginning starts to come into focus. Using the structure provided by breaking up your goal into smaller steps prevents burnout, which is one of the biggest reasons people quit altogether and never create the life they’ve dreamed of.
Your coach will help you define exactly what you mean when you say, “I want to be happier” or “I want to be successful. " You will work with your coach to develop a plan that works for you. Given everyday life commitments and stressors, we need an individualized plan to meet our goals.
Can a Therapist Be a Life Coach?
Can a therapist also be a life coach? Absolutely, and being therapists helps us be great coaches. We help you identify and conquer your emotional blocks as you move forward. We know that perfectionism and past disappointments often get in the way of success. Discussing your feelings (fear?) with your life coach helps you overcome them. Staying on task and motivated requires resilience. To reach your goal, you must recognize that it may not be easy, but if you dig deep, you can succeed even when things go wrong or become difficult.
Life coaching isn’t just about achieving goals—it’s about becoming the person who can sustain success. We will work with you on managing stress and keeping your focus. This helps motivate you for the long haul. You need to move forward with clarity of purpose, not as the result of scattered energies.
Over time, we help you shift from “trying” to “doing” (“Luke, do or not do. There is no try” - Yoda). In time, you will see progress as the result of consistent, intentional effort. We help you recognize your progress at every step. Don’t forget to enjoy yourself when you work toward successfully reaching your goals.
If you’ve been struggling to stay motivated or feel stuck and unable to reach your goals, we can help. New Jersey Therapy & Life Coaching in Voorhees, NJ, helps clients build momentum, find purpose, and create lasting change. Whether you desire a career change, building your own business, or changing and transforming yourself, we will help inspire you and keep you on the track to success. Coaching is available in-office, online, or by phone.