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Q & A About Coaching 1. What is Life Coaching? Coaching is a newer profession that has synthesized the best from psychology, business, sports, evolution, philosophy, spirituality, and finance to benefit individuals and groups. It is a wonderful process in which the coach and client come together as partners. The coach helps the client to : Clarify values Identify Tolerations and stressors Develop personal and professional goals Identify and resolve ideas, thoughts and behaviors that sabotage happiness and success Live a more balanced, happier, healthier, more fulfilled life. 2. Why does coaching work? Coaching works because of 3 unique features: Synergy, Structure, Expertise. A coach will encourage you to set the goals you truly want. Will ask you to do more than you have done on your own. Will help you to focus so that you will achieve results more quickly. Will provide you with the tools, support and structure to accomplish more. 3. Who works with a coach? Entrepreneurs, business owners, professionals, people in transition, or anyone that wants to improve the quality of their life, uses a coach to create, plan, or solve something personally and/or professionally. 4. How is coaching different from therapy? Unlike therapy, which goes into depth about issues usually in the past, coaching is more action-oriented and focuses primarily on the present and future. A coach enables people to determine their own answers through the work done in the coaching partnership.