Have you ever thought about working with a coach before? If you are serious about achieving your biggest goals, you should seriously consider it.

Working with a coach is a great way to boost your results in almost any area of life. Having someone to teach you the ropes, or build more accountability into your life, is a wonderful way to ensure you achieve more. If you are wondering if working with a coach could help you, consider these nine benefits.

1. Helps You Define Your Goals

Many of us have goals, but often not as defined. A coach can help take the hopes and dreams out of your head to create concrete goals. Instead of just wanting or wishing for something, you start to take real steps towards it.

2. Adds More Accountability to Your Life

Sometimes we have a much easier time letting ourselves down than we do letting others down. Having a coach means having someone in your corner that will hold you accountable to your desired outcomes. You will feel more accountable and be more likely to achieve your goals when you know someone will ask you about your progress.

3. Encourages You to Define Your Values

Do you know what you stand for? Maybe a better question is, do you know your core values? Regardless of the question, if you struggle with the answer, then a coach can help you. A coach can't tell you your values, but they can ask you questions that will help you define them yourself.

4. Helps You See Yourself More Clearly

A good coach will help you become more self-aware. This self-awareness will allow you to be more honest with yourself. You will know what you are good at and what you aren't so good at doing. Self-awareness allows you to double down on your strengths while figuring out how to face, improve and overcome challenges often referred to as weaknesses.

5. Assists Skill Building and Development

The most obvious benefit of a coach is their ability to help us build specific skills. For example, if you are interested in becoming a better business person, it makes sense to work with a business coach who has been there and done that. You get to learn from both their experiences and their mistakes.

6. Offers a Safe Space to Talk About Sensitive Issues

A skilled coach creates relationships where you are heard, seen, and valued. Having a coach gives you a safe space where you can talk about more sensitive issues. You are supported in a way that inspires, encourages, and leads to more positive and healthier outlook on life.

7. Encourages You to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone

If you can handle a little discomfort, you will be able to reap some amazing benefits when you leave your comfort zone. A skilled coach will coax and challenge you to step out of it. Stepping out of your comfort zone once in a while will make it easier to create consistent, positive change in your life.

8. Offers a Different Viewpoint

When you have a coach, you have someone else to bounce ideas off of. It is so easy to get caught up in your tunnel vision that you might not even consider differing opinions. A coach forces you to consider different viewpoints and opinions. This helps you become a more well-rounded individual.

9. Helps You Make Tough Decisions

Sometimes it feels like life is nothing but a series of difficult decisions. While this isn't always true, it has a basis in reality. How much would you like to have someone else to talk to about these decisions? A good coach provides that kind of assistance.

Next Step Actions:

1. Take some time to think about different areas of your life that could use a boost. Write these down in a list.

2. Choose the area of your life that could most use a coach, and let’s get started on the journey to your next level trajectory!

-Coach Jo