Imagine 123 - Career Coaching, Life Coaching

How do you get started on your new career path? In doing career and life coaching with many people over time, I have found that it is important to have the right outlook from the start. If you don’t have the right outlook, that can be helped in career coaching. Here are steps I would recommend starting with:

1. Realize that whatever your situation, your mindset may be shifted from recent events. This may have made you endure an unhappy job too long, and just not go for what you really want. It will be important to get support from someone you trust so that you can move forward. That someone can be yourself if you have a good balanced outlook. If you do not have a balanced outlook, a career coach can start here quickly with you.
2. Get started and do something. If you have been let go from a job, or if you are in a dead end job, make your first move. Do something to get things initiated. This could be signing up for career coaching sessions, or it could be breaking down your smaller realizations, such as just identifying that you will do what it takes to improve your life.
3. Begin your inventory of your likes, dislikes, past experiences, goals, dreams, and realities of what can be possible. This is the start to an important process.

Step three is one I reach fairly quickly with most people in career coaching. Steps one and two are areas that focus on building a foundation, and step three is where the real interesting magic starts.

One person I was coaching in San Francisco, CA last year took some time to break her conditioned mindset that she really could accomplish something amazing. With our coaching sessions, resume help, and especially interviewing practice, she is now the happiest she has ever been in her new career.

A man I was working with recently needed most help on his self esteem, resume, and all steps after sending in his resume. That meant he needed help on everything. He is now doing terrific . He now makes more money than his last job, has very high respect from his team and manager, and is extremely balanced in his life for the first time.