Self-Coaching - A Guide - The Self Improvement Blog

By David Bonham-Carter -

The last 50 years has seen massive growth within the self-help industry, including:-

• Enormous interest in self-help books and methods
• The growth of life coaching as a method for helping people to make significant changes in their life
• The growth of the internet allowing people to research self-help and self-improvement topics online.

As a life coach who has written a number of self-help books I am interested by the question of how best to coach yourself and what are the advantages of doing so as set against the traditional model of seeking help from someone else.

In my view the main advantages of self-coaching are:

1. You are empowered to make decisions about yourself and in your time.
2. It is a cost-effective way of making changes compared to the expense of getting a private coach or counsellor.
3. In coaching yourself you avoid the difficulties that can arise where a relationship between an individual and their coach or counsellor is not effective, or worse, is inappropriate in some way.

In my view some of the main ingredients to look for in self-coaching tools or books are:

1. Initial methods for assessing your current position and evaluating it.
2. Research-based techniques for helping you to improve in your chosen area(s).
3. Practical ideas which are easy to follow.
4. Effective tools for reviewing your progress.
5. Motivational ideas.

If you have an idea of particular techniques that you think may be relevant for you then look for self-coaching products or services that use these. For example if you think that CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) techniques may help you or that NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) techniques may be relevant for you then search for self-coaching products or services that incorporate those approaches in an effective way.

The main things to try to avoid if you want to coach yourself are:

• Avoid getting caught up in ideas that are too difficult to follow or not really related to you or what you want
• Avoid self-help tools or guides which are not supportive in their approach ? whilst it is useful to have your ideas challenged in a constructive way, you do not want methods which are likely to leave you feeling worse about yourself and unable to progress or get motivated.

If you are interested in some cost-effective self-coaching tools then click on any of the links below to find out more about self-coaching books, a self-coaching newsletter and life coaching services.

David Bonham-Carter is an international life coach and self-help author specialising in working with people experiencing stress, anxiety or relationship difficulties or wishing to achieve significant life or career changes.

For Further information about David?s self-coaching products and coaching ebooks, please go to either of the links below:

Self Coaching:

Life Coaching Books

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