Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

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How to be happy in life? is a very common question. We hear it a lot from our life coaching clients. Happiness is, no doubt, the most important thing in our life. If we are happy with ourselves, happy with our health, happy with our relationships, happy with our career and happy with our finances, there is not much else we need.

Unfortunately, most people are not happy, at least not as happy as they would like to be. To be happy, we can take charge of our life, grow our confidence, become people-magnets, improve our lifestyle and follow our dreams.

This is not a fantasy. At Be Happy in LIFE, with thousands of happy life coaching clients over the years, we can tell you it is possible for you too.

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To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to ones family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control ones own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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The world is fast becoming a place of great confusion and stress. Conflicting demands on your time may be causing you sometimes to lose yourself in the roles you play. You try to keep up and manage your health, your feelings, your relationships,your work and life and your finance, but somehow the way torelaxation, confidenceandsuccessseem to far away, and you end upworried, maybe even a littledepressed. Youwonder:

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Lifecoaching (or personal coaching) is fairly popular these days. Many people have asked me what I think of life coaching, so Ill share my thoughts on this subject.

A life coach is someone you hire to help assist you with your personal development, especially in the area of setting and achieving specific goals. Typically this involves paying a few hundred dollars per month to speak with a trained coach by phone for 30-60 minutes per week. Pricing and service offerings vary tremendously. Your life coach may share advice, offer guidance, help you make plans, and hold you accountable for taking action. You can hire a health coach to help you with health and fitness goals (like a virtual personal trainer). You can hire a businesscoach to help you build or grow a business. You can hire a productivity coach to help you get organized and increase your productivity. Every life coaching situation is unique, so theres a great deal of flexibility here.

At two different times in my life, I hired a life coach, each time for about six months. The first time was in 1993 while I was in college. The second time was around 2001 when I was running my games business.

When I hiredmy first lifecoach, I thought it might be useful in helping to increase my productivity. This coaching program began with avery thoroughpersonality assessment test, so ostensibly the coach could use this info to make the coaching more personal.

My results with this particular coach were mixed.I hired him during the time I was going through college in 3 semesters, and I liked that he helped hold me accountable to getting certain things done. Unfortunatelyhe decided to usemy test resultstotry toimprove what he considered some of my personality flaws, so he would sometimes coachme to work on his goals for me instead ofmy goals for me. Today this practice is largely considered unethical by the coaching community. Most coaches now know they must work on their clients goals, not their own goals for their clients. Some coach training and referralorganizations have written standards of ethics to clarify this.

This particular coach wasnt a great fit for me. He wanted to mold me into a more well-rounded person, whereas my goal was to become sharper in a few key areas. For example, he determined that I needed toimprove my social skills, so he gave me assignments like, Smile at 10 people today. As a computer science and math major, I thought that was a stupid assignment, so I didnt doit. I think his heart was in the right place, and later in life Idid put some serious effort intodeveloping my social skills, but as a coach it really wasnthis place to set goals for me. This caused me to lose respect for him, and it made our relationship less productive than it could have been.

This coach worked as part of a larger coaching operation, and they had a very generous money-back guarantee. I paid about $900 for six months of weekly 30-minute phone coaching sessions. The guarantee was such that if you werent satisfied for any reason, you could get a full refund on your entiresix months of coaching. That guaranteewas one of the reasons I signed up; I figured I had nothing to lose. In the end I did ask forthe refund, and to their credit they promptlyrefunded the full fee. I was excited about the coaching at first, and even at the halfway point it seemed like it was going somewhere,but in the end I realized it didnt meet my expectations. I felt bad asking for the refund, but I would have felt worse if Ididnt. I did get some value from the six months of coaching, but it wasnt worth $900 to me, and the terms of the guarantee made it clear that I should have been delighted, not disappointed. On a scale of 1-10, Id rate this coaching experience a 4.

The second time I hired a coach was during a period when my games business, Dexterity Software, was growing nicely. I thought it would be good to have a coach to help me sort through all the projects on my plate and tosolve some tricky problems.

This time I hired an independent coach instead of going with a larger organization. Most independent coaches offer a free session (try before you buy), so you can decide if theyre a good fit for you. I tried 3-4 different coaches and picked the one I liked best. I paid $70 per 60-minute weekly phone call. I also had the opportunity to do simple follow-up emails with this coach throughout the week.

I liked this coach, and I was happy with the service he provided. He was an experienced programmer like me, but he was also a very right-brained person. He taught me some creative problem-solving and visualizationtechniques. He was also very intuitive, so he would oftendetect the unspoken problems behind my spoken words. This made our conversations very efficient because he was able to get to the core issues quickly. We worked mostly on business challenges but also on some personal goals. My sales increased during this coaching period, so that was certainly nice.

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Life coaching is all the rage. Harvard Business Review reports that coaching is a $1 billion a year industry, but just what is a personal coach, professional coach, or life coach and why are so many executives and individuals using them to catapult their careers, break free from 9-5 jobs, and to create better, more fulfilling, richer lives?

First, what is a professional coach? The International Coach Federation (ICF) -- the leading global coaching organization and professional association for coaches -- defines coaching as "partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential."

Second, who's using coaches? In a 2009 study of the professional coaching industry by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), they found that coaching was used by 90% of organizations surveyed and that even in the economic downturn, 70% report that they are increasing or maintaining their commitment to coaching. Coaching is clearly popular, but what does a professional coach do?

As with any growing profession, there can be a lot of confusion. To help distinguish fact from fiction, click through the pages to read the top 10 personal coaching myths...

Top 10 Professional Life Coaching Myths

Myth #1: Life coaches are professionals who can help you achieve your goals.

Fact: Some, but certainly not all coaches are professionals who can help you reach your goals. One of the problems in the coaching industry is that anyone can call themselves a professional coach, life coach, personal coach, etc. Jennifer Corbin, the president of Coach U, one of the largest and oldest coach training organizations in the world, has said, "Technically, anyone can hang up a shingle as coaching is not regulated. Many people 'coaching' have no idea what coaching is as they haven't been trained or haven't been coached by a professionally trained and credentialed coach. There are 'schools' that will offer a credential after three hours of training and people read a book or watch a TV program and decide 'I'm a coach!'" As a result, the quality of coaches vary dramatically. I strongly suggest working with a coach that has been accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). The ICF provides independent certification that is the benchmark for the professional coaching industry.

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PART ONE

B efore you join Urban Meyer, who is walking toward the exit of the Ohio State football office, there's a scar you need to see. A few years ago in Gainesville, his middle child, Gigi, planned a celebration to formally accept a college volleyball scholarship to Florida Gulf Coast University. It was football season, so she checked her dad's calendar, scheduling her big day around his job. As the hour approached, she waited at her high school, wanting much, expecting little. Some now-forgotten problem consumed Meyer, and he told his secretary he didn't have time. He wasn't going. His beautiful, athletic, earnest daughter would have to sign her letter of intent without him. Meyer's secretary, a mother of four, insisted: "You're going."

Eighty or so people filed into the school cafeteria. Urban and his wife, Shelley, joined their daughter at the front table, watching as Gigi stood and spoke. She'd been nervous all day, and with a room of eyes on her, she thanked her mother for being there season after season, year after year.

Then she turned to her father.

He'd missed almost everything. You weren't there, she told him.

Shelley Meyer winced. Her heart broke for Urban, who sat with a thin smile, crushed. Moments later, Gigi high-fived her dad without making eye contact, then hugged her coach. Urban dragged himself back to the car. Then -- and this arrives at the guts of his conflict -- Urban Meyer went back to work, pulled by some biological imperative. His daughter's words ran through his mind, troubling him, and yet he returned to the shifting pixels on his television, studying for a game he'd either win or lose. The conflict slipped away. Nothing mattered but winning. Both of these people are in him -- are him: the guilty father who feels regret, the obsessed coach who ignores it. He doesn't like either one. He doesn't like himself, which is why he wants to change.

M eyer strolls through the Ohio State football parking lot with his 13-year-old son, Nate. Years from now, when Urban either succeeds or fails in remaking himself, he will look back on these two days in June as a dividing line. On one side, the past 18 months of searching, and on the other, the test of that search. In the car, he turns right out of his new office, heading some two hours north. There's vital business at hand, which requires him to leave the football bunker on a summer afternoon.

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Dr. Joe Vitale is the author of way too many bestselling books to mention here. Some of them include The Attractor Factor, Life's Missing Instruction Manual, The Key, Faith, Attract Money Now and his latest is a sequel to his bestseller, Zero Limits which was officially launched in January 2014, entitled At Zero.

He's also recorded many Nightingale-Conant audio programs, to name a few, The Awakening Course, The Missing Secret, The Secret to Attracting Money, The Abundance Paradigm, The Ultimate Law of Attraction Library and his latest release is called, The Zero Point.

Joe has also been in several movies, including the blockbuster The Secret. He's been on the following TV shows: Larry King Live, Donny Deutsch's The Big Idea, CNN, CNBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News: Fox & Friends and Extra TV. He's also been featured in The New York Times and Newsweek.

One of his most recent accomplishments includes being the world's first self-help singer-songwriter as seen in 2012's Rolling Stone Magazine. To date, he has released 6 albums! Several of his songs were recognized and nominated for the Posi Award, regarded as The Grammys of Positive Music.

He created a Miracles Coaching program and helps people achieve their dreams by understanding the deeper aspects of the law of attraction and the law of right action. This man was once homeless but today is a bestselling author who believes in magic and miracles.

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He just created a software program to help anyone write better sales letters, articles, news releases, speeches and even entire books. It's called Hypnotic Writing Wizard. He also has a brand-new membership program for those who are serious about learning marketing at HypnoticGold.com.

According to Succeed Magazine, Dr. Joe Vitale is one of the five top marketing specialists in the world today and is known to his readers, customers, and seminar attendees as the world's first hypnotic writer. Joe is also a certified hypnotherapist, a certified metaphysical practitioner, a certified Chi Kung healer, a certified Reiki Master, and an ordained minister. He also holds a doctorate degree in Metaphysical Science and another doctorate degree in Marketing. Joe is also a proud member of the National Speakers Association.

Dr. Vitale has numerous websites, books, tapes, free articles, guest columns, and more, on this site. Please take your time, browse and enjoy!

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Coaching is training or development in which a person called a "coach" supports a learner in achieving a specific personal or professional goal. The learner is sometimes called a "coachee". Occasionally, "coaching" may mean an informal relationship between two people, of whom one has more experience and expertise than the other and offers advice and guidance as the latter learns; but coaching differs from mentoring in focusing on competence specifics, as opposed to general overall development.

Some coaches use a style in which they ask questions and offer opportunities to challenge the learner to find his or her own answers. This helps the learner find answers and new ways of perceiving and performing in the society; based on their own values, preferences and perspectives.

Etymologically, the English term "coach" is derived from a medium of transport that traces its origins to the Hungarian word kocsi meaning "carriage" that was named after the village where it was first made.[1] The first use of the term coaching to mean an instructor or trainer arose around 1830 in Oxford University slang for a tutor who "carries" a student through an exam.[2] Coaching thus has been used in language to describe the process used to transport people from where they are, to where they want to be. The first use of the term in relation to sports came in 1861.[2]

Historically the evolution of coaching has been influenced by many other fields of study including those of personal development, adult education, psychology (sports, clinical, developmental, organizational, social and industrial) and other organizational or leadership theories and practices. Since the mid-1990s, coaching has developed into a more independent discipline and professional associations such as the Association for Coaching, The International Coach Federation, and the European Coaching and Mentoring Council have helped develop a set of training standards.[3] Janet Harvey, president of the International Coach Federation, was quoted in a New York Times article about the growing practice of Life Coaching, in which she traces the development of coaching to the early 1970s Human Potential Movement and credited the teachings of Werner Erhard's "EST Training," the popular self-motivation workshops he designed and led in the '70s and early '80s.[5]Thomas J. Leonard who founded "Coach U", "International Coach Federation", "Coachville" and "International Association of Coaches" was an EST employee in the 1980s.[6]

The facilitative approach to coaching in sport was pioneered by Timothy Gallwey;[7] before this, sports coaching was (and often remains) solely a skills-based learning experience from a master in the sport. Other contexts for coaching include executive coaching, life coaching, emotional intelligence coaching and wealth coaching.

In the process of coaching, scientific knowledge from the fields of neuroscience and psychology may be applied, yet often coaching conversations are considered to be an art form, psychic reading.[8][9]

There are many definitions of coaching, mentoring and various styles of management and training.[10]

What follows are more succinct definitions of the various forms of helping. However, there may be overlap between many of these types of coaching activities.[11]

Managing is making sure people do what they know how to do. Training is teaching people to do what they dont know how to do. Mentoring is showing people how the people who are really good at doing something do it. Counselling is helping people come to terms with issues they are facing. Coaching is none of these it is helping to identify the skills and capabilities that are within the person, and enabling them to use them to the best of their ability.

Professional coaching uses a range of communication skills (such as targeted restatements, listening, questioning, clarifying etc.) to help clients shift their perspectives and thereby discover different solutions to achieve their goals.[12] These skills are used when coaching clients in any field. In this sense, coaching is a form of 'meta-profession' that can apply to supporting clients in any human endeavor, ranging from their concerns in personal, professional, sport, social, family, political, spiritual dimensions, etc.

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Coaching (AFI:[kot], anglicismo que procede del verbo ingls to coach, entrenar) es un mtodo que consiste en acompaar, instruir y entrenar a una persona o a un grupo de ellas, con el objetivo de conseguir alguna meta o de desarrollar habilidades especficas.

En el entorno empresarial y personal se conoce por coaching al proceso interactivo y transparente mediante el cual el coach o entrenador y la persona o grupo implicados en dicho proceso buscan el camino ms eficaz para alcanzar los objetivos fijados usando sus propios recursos y habilidades.[citarequerida] Hay muchos mtodos y tipos de coaching. Entre sus tcnicas puede incluir charlas motivacionales, seminarios, talleres y prcticas supervisadas.

La persona que realiza el proceso de coaching recibe el nombre de coach (AFI:[kot], entrenador), mientras que la persona que lo recibe se denomina coachee (AFI:[koti], entrenado o persona en entrenamiento).

En el proceso de coaching interactan dos personas; uno es el coach o entrenador, que es la persona que instruye, forma o gua a la persona que est siendo orientada para mejorar en el desempeo de sus funciones [1] (mentor o quien construye el conocimiento). El otro es el coachee o persona en entrenamiento, quien recibe los conocimientos y las competencias que necesita para mejorar en su vida profesional. El entrenador se compromete con su entrenado en una alianza de colaboracin, estableciendo unos objetivos concretos y diseando un plan de accin que les permita alcanzarlos dentro de los plazos establecidos. [2] Este plan fijar una serie de encuentros entre los intervinientes que permitan conseguir la finalidad prevista, acompaado de otro conjunto de actividades destinadas a mejorar aspectos concretos de la persona en entrenamiento. En la efectividad del coaching influye el tipo de relacin que se establezca y se requiere que est basada en la confianza entre ambos participantes, de este modo el entrenador puede ser, no solo un director del entrenamiento de coachee, sino tambin un consultor que le ayude a innovar en los procedimientos. [3] Para mejorar la productividad del proceso, el entrenador debe tener un conocimiento profundo del puesto de trabajo desarrollado por el entrenado y de la forma en que este puesto se relaciona con los objetivos de la organizacin. Asimismo, ha de disponer de habilidad para comunicar, debe desear y ser capaz de compartir su informacin con el entrenado y estar dispuesto a tomarse el tiempo que requiere este esfuerzo. [4]

El desarrollo del proceso sigue bsicamente de los siguientes 5 pasos:

En la ltima dcada se ha observado el floreciente crecimiento de esta tcnica, apareciendo mltiples profesionales y empresas dedicados al tema. Como muchas otras tendencias similares, se encuentran diversos resultados de su aplicacin. A continuacin, algunas de las crticas ms popularizadas acerca del coaching[citarequerida]:

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