Life Coaching

Life Coaching is a practice with the stated aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. The Coach uses NLP along with other psychological tools in the process of setting and accomplishing goals. It is different to that of therapy in that it deals primarily with the future and the realising of targets.   

Its roots are in executive coaching, which draws on techniques developed in management consulting and leadership training.

The term Life Coach is perhaps best identified with Anthony Robbins, the billionaire guru of motivational seminars, books, CDs and DVDs. As a teenager in the 1970s, Robbins became very successful in business and was nicknamed “Wonderboy” by the press for his entrepreneurial skills, before he fell on hard times after unconsciously sabotaging his once thriving businesses.

With tenacity and a sheer desire to better himself and achieve more in all areas of his life, he studied NLP when it was in its infancy, after pleading to be let into the class where it was being taught (by cofounder John Grinder). With this newfound knowledge he soon made many personal discoveries and transformations, which resulted in him becoming an incredibly successful businessman, international bestselling author and leading “Personal Performance Coach”, running seminars all over the USA. All of this was achieved by the late 1980s and still whilst only in his late twenties.  

Today in his late forties he is still perhaps the most well known Life Coach there is, and has appeared as himself in the comedy film Shallow Hal and is regularly seen on “infomercials” that are broadcast on satellite and cable channels promoting products such as “Get The Edge!” and “Personal Power”.

Not only am I qualified as a Life Coach through the clinic where I trained, but I have also been an avid student of Anthony Robbins for many years, having listened to hundreds of hours of his material, be it in CD, tape or DVD format. I have also read many of his best-selling books and have taken part in several of his seminars, including “Unleash The Power Within”, a four day experience at the Excel Centre in London, which involves a barefoot firewalk!

The principles of Life Coaching have been key in the recovery of my health and happiness, and in so many areas of my life where I once thought certain “unattainable” goals were out of my reach.