Are you living the life you have always wanted to live? Are you satisfied with where you are in your life right now? Are you living your true purpose? Are you satisfied and happy with the state of your relationships? Are you aligned with the best version of yourself? Do you feel motivated enough to go after what you want?
These are all things that can be addressed with the guidance and support of a mindset coach. So, what exactly is mindset coaching? Let’s understand this further.
A Brief Overview
Mindset coaching is a type of coaching that focuses on identifying and changing a client’s current thought patterns and the limiting beliefs attached to them. In a way, it’s quite similar to talk therapy. A mindset coach is someone who helps you understand the workings of your own mind by helping you delve deeper into your psyche, enabling you to make better decisions.
In simple words, they are a person that helps bridge the gap between your current life and your desired life. So, how do you know you need one? Well, if where you are in life is not where you want to be, it’s an obvious sign you need one.
They help you identify your limiting beliefs and replace them with a new set of positive beliefs. They help you get out of the thought patterns you have been stuck with for so long. They allow you to become a better version of yourself.
Here’re eight major benefits of seeking mindset coaching:
1. Expand Your Perspective
“Life is all about perspective.” It’s not about what happens, but how you perceive it makes all the difference. You may think of it as a bed of roses. You may think it’s a box of chocolates. Or you may even think it’s a path full of thorns. What you think of your current life paves your existing reality.
You might feel like you don’t control your life, but you do to a huge extent. You just don’t know it. So, if you feel stuck in a rut and have no clue how to get unstuck, you could probably benefit from coaching.
Feeling stuck is nothing but a sign to see things differently. You feel stuck because you are too fixated on doing things a certain way. All you need to get unstuck is to adopt a fresh perspective. You need someone to help you see things in a new light.
You need a professional to help you see the bird-eye view of the situation. They will help you see things differently, suggesting a new approach to your problem.
2. Support Outside of Friends and Family
Seeking advice from friends, family and colleagues may seem an obvious option but is it the right choice? While they can help you to a certain extent, a coach might be a better option. Friends and family might advise you based on their limited mindset, biases, and beliefs, but a coach can take a deeper dive into your concerns and help you work towards your goals.
So, don’t be surprised if your friends and family deter you from reaching your dreams. Try not to get disheartened or offended. If it’s something that you really want, don’t let their limiting beliefs hold you back.
Instead, seek support from someone who isn’t confined to their biases and beliefs. Someone who can give you advice from a detached perspective. Someone outside of your current circle. Someone who can support and guide you through the entire process. Let that someone be a mindset coach.
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3. Someone to Hold You Accountable
Are you someone who starts a new habit or routine with full-on enthusiasm but finds it hard to sustain it after a day or two? Then my friend, you probably need someone to hold you accountable – someone to push you beyond your state of inertia.
A mindset coach can be a person who is your constant cheerleader and accountability partner. They will help you stay on track by checking in on your daily progress. They will motivate you to keep moving forward when the going gets tough.
4. Improve Your Communication Skills
What is that one skill you require throughout your life, regardless of what setting you are in? The art of effectively communicating what you want is vital if you want to succeed in your personal and professional life.
But what if you aren’t born with excellent communication skills? What if you struggle to communicate what you want? Worry not. All you need is guidance from a coach.
They can help you be aware of what you truly want. All you need to do is open yourself up to them about your problems, goals, and desires. This will help free up all the pent-up energy and help you feel liberated.
Remember, “Vocalising what you want is the first step towards achieving it.” They might also suggest journal prompts for different areas of your life to achieve the desired result. Suppose you are struggling to ask for a raise in your current job. In such a case, this journaling exercise would include writing about all the reasons you deserve a raise. This will eventually help you communicate it better to your boss.
5. Enhance Your Personal Relationships
Do you feel you don’t deserve to have a happy and fulfilling relationship? Do you feel like you don’t deserve a good partner? Do you feel unworthy of love? If you said yes, then know that it’s just a limiting belief talking.
Know that it’s not your fault, but try to limit that type of negative self-talk. Why? Because you are enabling a self-fulfilling prophecy. You are making that your life sentence.
Your thoughts of not being good enough shape your current reality. It affects your body language and decisions. It prevents you from making that desired move to approach someone you are interested in.
But how about you drop that limiting belief? What if you believe you are deserving of a loving partner? Wouldn’t that help you attract a better relationship? It would for sure. All you need is the right coaching to do so.
6. Amp Up Your Productivity
You spend your entire day working at your desk, but can you get things done? Were you able to tick maximum stuff off of your to-do list? If not, then you might be looking for ways to be more productive.
Let me ask you a question. “What is the point of giving in all these hours when you can’t get much out of it?” You need to amp up your productivity. But how do you do that? You need to get to the root cause of it.
What is it that prevents you from maximizing your output? What are the limiting beliefs around your work that are holding you back? Or is it the work environment that’s holding you back? Figuring out the right cause requires you to delve deeper into your thoughts and beliefs. You would need the expertise of a coach for that.
7. Form Healthier Habits
Habits can make or break your day. It has the potential to transform your life completely. But all this depends on the type of habits you have formed, i.e., whether they are healthy or unhealthy.
Let me explain this with an example. Suppose you wake at 8 am, and you check your phone instantly. Before you know it, it’s already 10 am, and you are late for work. Now you quickly run around frantically trying to get ready for the office. After all the hustle and bustle, you somehow managed to reach your office. What do you think your day would look like?
Do you think it would be fulfilling and peaceful? Of course not! Right? Now suppose you had a routine consisting of healthy habits. What would your day look like then?
Imagine waking up at 5:30 a.m., and instead of checking your phone first thing in the morning, you devote an hour to meditation and journaling. You dedicate the next 1 hour to the things you love doing like yoga, reading, painting, etc. How do you think your day would unfold? In a fulfilling and peaceful way, right?
Wouldn’t you want this in your life? Would you not want to cultivate healthy habits that lead to you having peace of mind? If you said yes to these questions, you need to seek guidance from a mindset coach.
8. Overcome Your Fears
Your fear is the only thing that’s holding you back. You must have heard this phrase a billion times. But have you contemplated it? Even if you haven’t, let me let you, it’s entirely true.
Your fear is nothing but a thought. It’s a thought you have believed to be true for years – a limiting belief holding you back. All you need to do is face it. But it’s easier said than done. Right?
You feel scared because you don’t want to do it alone. But what if there was someone who could guide you through this? What if there was someone who could help you understand why you feel what you feel? Why do you act out of fear?
What if there was a way to overcome it more easily? Wouldn’t you want to get that person on board to help you? Of course, you would. Then go ahead and seek the support of a professional who can help you go beyond your fears and unlock your maximum potential.
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Now that you are aware of the numerous benefits of seeking the help of a mindset coach, why wait? Stop living a helpless life in victim mode. Know that you are worthy. Know that you can have it all. All you need is the support and guidance of a professional.
So, stop waiting and start reclaiming your life back. Go ahead and seek counseling from a mindset coach. We at DocVita have various specialists with years of experience waiting to help you. So what are you waiting for? Hop on DocVita and book your first online counseling session today.