1. What is Coaching?
2. What does a coach do?
3. How do I know if I need a coach?
4. Why should I hire a coach if I can succeed by myself?
5. Is coaching like psychotherapy?
6. What do I do with my coach?
7. How long does the coaching relationship last?
8. So doesn't that give you incentive to stretch out the relationship?
9. Does this mean I will achieve more of everything?
10. Are you very spiritual?

1. What is Coaching?

Coaching is a special partnership with an experienced professional mentor who is committed to your well-being, success and happiness. In the coaching relationship we focus on goals that will transform the quality of your work and personal life. To accomplish this, we draw from our extensive background in communication, motivation, business, optimal learning strategies and spiritual growth. We use our knowledge of these disciplines to benefit you, whether you are an entrepreneur, professional or business owner.

• Helps you set better goals and then reach those goals
• Provides the tools, support and structure to help you accomplish more
• Focuses you better to more quickly produce results
• Asks you to do more than you would have done on your own
• Brings out the best in you
• Looks past how you appear to how you can be

Coach-client synergy can be transformational. However, if you are not yet ready to make a proactive, positive change in your life, this is probably not the time for you to team up with a coach.

Similarly, if you are not sure whether you need a therapist or a coach, you should probably take the therapist. Coaching is not psychotherapy. Coaching focuses on how rather than why -- achieving in the present and future rather than analyzing the past. It provides strategies for taking positive action which pay off in your life.

That said, if you feel that you could do much better with better focus, clarity and intelligent support, then let's talk.

The greatest performers achieve their greatness through good coaching. Sometimes this coaching comes from an inspiring teacher or a mentor in one's profession. Or it can come from a professional coach. Regardless, in life a clear observation is that consistent winners tend to achieve through good coaching.

No. I am not a physician and am not a therapist. The coaching I offer is never psychotherapy. However, I do have a Ph.D. in Communications and am a behavioral scientist who has helped professionals improve their performance for two decades. In doing such I often use tested measuring instruments to help my clients understand and take charge of their lives more successfully. If you need psychotherapy I urge you to work directly with a psychotherapist before beginning coaching.

6. What will I do with my coach?

With your coach, you will:

• design and implement a better life plan
• stay focused and motivated
• strike a successful balance between your personal life and your business life
• take yourself and your abilities more seriously budget your time and money more efficiently
• receive objective, insightful feedback
• do the things you should do, but usually do not
• set and achieve goals more easily

7. How long does the coaching relationship last?

It depends on you. There is not specific end to coaching, but there should come a point when you are living at the level you wish to live. Depending on the level you wish to attain, that point will probably takes longer than several months but less than several years.

Not really. It is disrespectful to both of us to maintain a relationship that is not mutually supportive and recognizably beneficial. I want the coaching relationship to last as long as you are realizing true growth with patterns of living which provide you with ongoing life-enhancing benefits. The better job I do at this the more likely you are to recommend me to your friends and colleagues. For me that's values-based living and good business.

No. My philosophy is one of growth through balance--reaching higher with the help of a solid foundation. You may decide that having more and more is not what truly nourishes you at the deepest levels. We will work toward balance and then toward whatever truly nourishes you and sustains you at optimal levels.

I can and will help you become more successful -- defined as living exceedingly well and in balanced alignment with your core values. It does not align with my core values to coach you toward any less than that.

Yes. But I prefer living my beliefs more than intellectualizing about them. There is a Zen proverb from the Tao that states, "He who knows does not speak and he who speaks does not know." That saying pops into my head with annoying regularity when I hear myself talking spirituality.