Strategic Coaching

More and more, I am convinced that we all need a coach. In fact, I don't know anyone who is doing well in all areas of their life. That's why, being a coach myself, I also need coaches who guide and accompany me, with whom I commit to achieving goals and create an action plan.

Even a coach needs another coach to move forward and achieve goals. But who supervises us in our daily lives?

Why do I believe that everyone needs a coach? Actually, it's very simple: because all human beings have an innate need to grow. Growing means progressing, improving, expanding. And this applies to any area of your life. You might be doing very well at work, but perhaps your health is neglected. Or it could be about improving your financial situation, family, relationships, self-esteem, social relationships, and so on.

Strategic Coaching. What is it?

Strategic coaching is a mix of various coaching modalities, therapy, NLP... it comes from Gestalt therapy, Hypnotherapy, Conversational Hypnosis, Family Dynamics, Neuro-linguistic Programming, Traditional Coaching, and Human Needs Psychology. The definition of coaching is a person's growth process in any area of their life.

The idea here is to employ strategies in our daily lives. Many of our patterns and habits come precisely from strategies we have learned to use to get results, even if these strategies don't lead us to anything good.

The client turns to a coach to achieve a certain goal, but this goal actually becomes a mere excuse for the person to grow and expand their psychology, to reach new options, make better decisions, and take better actions. Therefore, strategic coaching is a way to grow with a clear strategy, a structure, choosing the growth theme, aligning the person's psychology with the goal they want to achieve.

Imagine your goal is to lose weight. If you turn to a coach, it's because you haven't been able to do it on your own. You probably know what you want to achieve (lose a certain number of kilos per month), you've even read books on how to do it (strategies that have worked successfully for others), but you don't get results because there's an inner conflict between what you want and what you are. For example, if you are a person with little willpower, easily distracted, promise yourself you'll do it but never actually do it, etc., your personality might not be suitable for achieving this specific goal.

A strategic coach will help you align your way of being, thinking, and feeling so that you can achieve your goal. And what will happen when you achieve it? Apart from feeling great, you'll have become a more capable person, with more resources... and maybe you'll set new goals that you weren't even able to visualize before. You're going to grow and expand your psychology.

In broad terms, in strategic coaching, the following key elements are worked on:

- Vision or what you want to achieve

- A specific strategy and action plan to achieve this goal

- If you fail to follow your action plan, then your internal conflicts are addressed because there's a contradiction between your previous programming and the goal

- Breakthroughs or Aha moments occur in each session when you suddenly realize something important that was blocking you

- Strategic coaching has an educational part where we educate our client about coaching issues, key elements of human psychology, so they understand why they act as they do and what they can do to make better decisions

- The goal is for you to make changes in your decisions and habits, develop a winning mindset aligned with your goals, so you can grow and thrive as a person

The thing is, human beings have a great capacity to deceive ourselves, and we may know what we should do and how we can do it, but we come up with all sorts of excuses, tell ourselves that we'll do it tomorrow, and in the end, since there's no one to be accountable to, we remain the same, without changing anything.

This is what's called the Law of Diminished Intentions. We might even start fulfilling the goal: join the gym, go 2, 3, 4 days in a row... but as soon as we slack off, we revert to our previous life, saying we'll do it tomorrow... And tomorrow never comes.

Enough with procrastination. It's time for a change.

And finally, I recommend watching the recent documentary "I Am Not Your Guru" with Tony Robbins, one of the world-famous coaching gurus.