Do You Work With a Life Coach?

“Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Have you ever worked with a life coach?

If so, I’d love to hear your experience! What were (are) the benefits for you? Or, what didn’t you like…what didn’t work so well?

I have been working with my life coach, Rob Flichel, for more than two years. For the first eighteen months, we chatted on the phone once a month, for an hour. These days, we only need to chat once every three or four months. His goal was to get me to be able to self-coach myself the vast majority of the time…and that, I believe, is the sign of a very good life coach.

But oh, what an hour’s coaching session can do!

Sometimes it takes a completely objective person to shed light on an issue that we are way too immersed in, to be able to see with any sort of clarity.

Whether it is a personal matter or a business challenge I am grappling with, what I like most about working with Rob is the accountability.

The first part of our session is spent following up on what we talked about the previous month. But I don’t get to just complain or vent about an issue. I also have to make some sort of commitment as to what…