Life Coaching draws from a number of disciplines, including psychology, NLP, counselling, and sports coaching. The Life Coach uses these and other techniques to support clients and help them move forward and achieve success. Read more...
I work with anyone who is fed up with being fed up and sick and tired of being sick and tired. If you want to make changes in your life, but you just can't seem to get going, or perhaps you are just not following through - perhaps I CAN help!
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If you answered yes to any of these, or you are interested in life coaching - get in touch as I provide a free no obligation trial session where we can have a chat, and you can experience my style of coaching and have a chat to see if it is right for you.
Life is a time limited experience. The clock is ticking and one thing is for sure - the time gets spent whether you enjoy it or not. Time is our most valuable commodity. The question is - how do you spend yours?
Working with me as your Life Coach involves focusing, creating and working on present and future possibilities; rather than on past experiences, or any previous mistakes. We'll start from today, take it from here and move forward.
During the coaching sessions I work with you one to one, either face to face or via the phone (with email support). My approach is friendly, relaxed, and rooted in common sense. I provide support, guidance, structure, and accountability. Each coaching session builds on the progress made in the last, creating an accumulative effect and constantly building momentum and making progress until we achieve your aims.
As a Life Coach I'm a good listener. I take the time to hear where you're coming from. I want to understand things from your point of view so I am best placed to be able to help. I am always honest, but at the same time sensitive, constructive and non judgmental.
I am based in Hampshire UK. Although I live in Hampshire, I work (and have worked) with people from all over the UK, from Portsmouth to London to Manchester to Dundee. I have even had clients from the USA and France. Your location is not an issue at all with my style of coaching.
Thank you so much. I was a bit skeptical to begin with, but now I am so grateful for your help. I feel so positive about my career and everything is looking great! - Tim, London
If you are looking for a life coach, stop looking NOW and choose Startliving Life Coaching. I cannot recommend Rich highly enough - Jenny, Dundee
Working with Rich has been amazing. He is compassionate but so practical. He quickly evaluated things and got me moving in the right direction. Just what I needed! - Niki, London
Rich's approach to coaching is refreshing and practical. He is so positive, proactive, and yet realistic. My confidence is higher, my communication is better, and I am far more organised. I was amazed when people started to notice the positive changes in me - Ian, Manchester
"Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals." TIME
"Coaches--they're part therapist, part consultant, and they sure know how to succeed." NEWSWEEK
"Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self-worth, focus on your goals - and get there, fast." THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
"Part consultant, part motivational speaker, part therapist and part rent-a-friend, coaches work with managers, entrepreneurs and just plain folks, helping them define and achieve their goals--career, personal or, most often, both." NEWSWEEK
"People are looking to coaches as sounding boards and motivators who can offer a fresh perspective on career and life problems -- but without the conflicting agendas of a spouse...or even a mentor." FORTUNE
"Even world-class athletes can't reach peak performance without a great coach." FAST COMPANY
"As for coaching, having someone listen to you and encourage you, and break everything down into easy, concrete steps, is rather nice. …It's not just helping them with hard-core business issues but also helping them with their personal issues..." BUSINESS WEEK
"I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable." John Russell, Managing Director, Harley-Davidson Europe Ltd.
"Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals" CNN.com
These life coaching tips are in no particular order; they are just listed 1 - 10 for ease.
1. Try stepping outside your comfort zone once in a while. One of the greatest barriers to achieving your potential is your comfort zone. As a life coach this is probably the number one area I focus on with clients. Great things happen when you make friends with your discomfort zone.
2. Don't be afraid to make mistakes. There is an old saying that people who haven't made mistakes haven't made anything. Make mistakes and learn from them.
3. Be aware of any negative thoughts you hold about yourself - challenge them, are they really true, if so what is the evidence? Are you giving yourself a hard time? I guarantee you that you are your harshest critic. Cut yourself some slack! This is probably the second most common area I work whilst coaching clients.
4. Make an effort to try and look on the bright side of things, I know it sounds cheesy but sometimes it comes very easy to us to be critical or negative, almost habit like. The next time you feel negative towards something, STOP, and purposely find something positive about the issue and focus on that. You can almost always see another side of things. It just depends where your bias is.
5. Read some good uplifting books, there are some excellent biographies out there by all sorts of people, successful people, rags to riches people and people who have overcome huge obstacles in life. Not to mention some good self-help/life coaching books. Beware there are plenty of rubbish self-help books around too.
6. Train yourself to finish what you start. Follow through - you owe it to yourself and others. Does it feel good to have loads of things hanging around half done that you should have finished? Don't let things build up. Slay the beast whilst it's small.
7. Focus on the present moment. When you live in the past too much you stop living now. I often tell my life coaching clients to - 'live in the now, plan for the future, and learn from the past'.
8. Learn what is important to you in life - is it love? Is it money? Is it your family? What do you love doing? Who/what makes you happy?
9. Realise that setbacks and knocks are just a normal part of life. If life was brilliant 100% of the time we would take it for granted and not appreciate it. It's duality - you can't appreciate something without having the opposite, it's like day and night, hot or cold, up and down. You just can understand one without the reference point to the other. It's exactly the same with good and bad.
10. Some wise words from a wise man - Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. Ralph Waldo Emerson
09/2007 --- "I am definitely more proactive, and I am also able to maintain a far more positive outlook. But best of all, I've become much more productive in my work. Thank you!" - Kevin, Wales
08/2007 --- My wife has just given birth to our baby daughter. As such I will be having a few weeks off work to spent time with my family.
02/2007 --- Whilst I am based just outside Southampton in Hampshire, I work with people from all over the UK and even sometimes beyond! I have worked with people from the south coast of England, to the north of Scotland. From Brighton - London - (across to Cardiff/Wales) - Birmingham - Manchester - Newcastle - Glasgow - Inverness. I have even worked with people from the USA, France, and the Middle East!
11/2006 --- I have contributed to an article in the best selling teenage magazine Bliss. The article will be in either the December 06 issue, or the January 07 issue. The article is on how teenage girls can improve their social skills and find ways to make new friends and improve their relationships.
10/2006 --- New website design/layout. I think it is a lot cleaner and crisper. Hope you like it!
03/2006 --- Startliving Life Coaching is one of the Naked Leaders (David Taylor) favorite websites.
07/2005 --- " Rich, I wanted to say a big thank you for all the help and support you have given me. It seems that the more time passes the more I realise how valuable our sessions were. Even though they took place a few months ago it seems that I am now seeing the full benefit. It gave me the opportunity to think more clearly at a time of great change and upheaval. Without your encouragement I would have been very tempted to give up on the course I was doing - a course which I recently heard I passed by the way! " - Debbie, Liverpool
06/2005 --- I am now able to offer face to face coaching in the Hampshire area. Contact me for more details.
01/2005 --- An article I have written has been published in the January 2005 edition of the Holistic Business Journal.
10/2004 --- I have now increased the number of coaching clients I take per month. As a result there are additional coaching spaces currently available.
09/2004 --- After some requested feedback from my clients, for greater convenience I now offer Life Coaching sessions in the evenings.
08/2004 --- An article on Time Management I wrote, has been published on Self Growth.com (the number one personal development website on the net!).
08/2004 --- "Rich made the coaching enjoyable, lively and rooted in common sense. I had feared the process might be painful or difficult, but it was sensible, straightforward, and I found myself looking forward to each session. At the end of it I can see a simple way of improving my life, and I know I can make it happen." - Anne, Museum Curator
06/2004 --- "Rich's approach to coaching is refreshing and practical. He is so positive, proactive, and yet realistic. My confidence is higher, my communication is better, and I am far more organised. I was amazed when people started to notice the positive changes in me" - Ian, IT Manager
04/2004 --- I have contributed to an article in the April edition of Cosmopolitan magazine. The article is called 'Single & Sexy' and relates to single women being proactive and enjoying their freedom while it lasts, rather than feeling down about not currently being in a relationship.
"There is so much to do. There is so little time. We must go slowly." Taoist saying