Life coach Mervin Straughan explains what life coaching is and how it differs from other forms of skilled help. He also identifies five factors that create the basis for a good working relationship between life coach and client including confidentiality and effective listening.
The T-GROW tool is well-established among life coaches for helping to bring about personal change. It's also used as a problem solver and for personal growth. Life coach Mervin Straughan explains how it's used.
The Myles Downey T-GROW model builds on the one developed by Whitmore, Fine and Alexander known as GROW. It differs through the addition of the letter 'T' which stands for topic and, therefore, encourages the life coach client to identify a specific challenge to overcome.
Both models take the client though a number of steps to problem solve or bring about change in their lives. The process involves setting goals, identifying obstacles and exploring the range of options before embarking on the next steps. It also incorporates a realistic appraisal of the current situation.
Mervin Straughan explores grit as the essential ingredient for success. What is grit and why is it regarded as the best early predictor for how well an individual will fare in school, work and relationships?
Some people believe that IQ and talent matter most but, according to experts, grit is the one that will most likely determine our success.
There are some big life coaching and personal growth questions we need to ask ourselves if we want to make major changes in our lives.
Life coach Mervin Straughan looks at the first of these questions: "Where am I now?" and looks at life coaching tools and models to help us to understand our current position before our personal growth journey begins in earnest.
Mervin looks at why purpose is so important to who we are. He also explores the power of personal values and how they influence our attitude and behaviour.
We're more likely to achieve personal fulfilment if we choose a future that aligns with who we are.
We have two ears and one mouth for good reason. When we fail to listen properly, we risk alienating one another. And we risk missing out on a vital piece of information that might have led to a different outcome.
Many conversations spiral out of control or hit a brick wall because of a failure to understand what's being said. Sometimes, there's a point-scoring agenda or we allow our own filter or judgments to influence our interpretation of the messaging.
In this youtube video, Mervin offers five tips for how to improve communication and prevent conversations going into freefall. And he looks at what international expert Nancy Kline says about the damaging impact of ill-conceived interruptions.
Life coach Mervin Straughan provides 12 top tips to boost confidence and self-esteem as well as productivity. He draws on his experience as a life coach to pick out his favourite pieces of advice.
These tips include why life coaches tell you:
- it's important to have a purpose
- it's a good idea to understand the power of our subconscious mind
- we need to ditch multi-tasking
- handwriting beats typing hands down.
Why is it important to spend as much time as possible living in present?
In this youtube video, life coach Mervin Straughan identifies four benefits of living in the present and makes four recommendations for how to do so.
We shape our future by what we do now. Consciously or unconsciously.
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