Why You Need To Be Your Own Coach

It is usually a coach’s mission to help their clients to achieve greater clarity about their current life and to accompany them in formulating and realizing their goals - potentials and resources are identified and activated, obstacles are fixed and circumscribed, strategies and methods continuously adapted to the needs and developments of the client.

But the problem with that is that a coach doesn’t know your thoughts, emotions or inner motivation but can only guess about them. Also, very often people don’t want a coach to know about their true life situation because they feel embarrassed.

You are the only person to know about those thoughts and emotions. So why not taking advantage of that fact? Being your own coach may be hard in many situations: you need to be a 100% honest to yourself and also be very strict which might not be easy, especially in regard to difficult phases of life. Whereas it is easier for an external coach because they have a more objective view on your life.

In order to achieve this more objective view on your life and being able to see your lack in performance, it is important for you to also take an external perspective, a kind of birds-eye view. In your daily life you need to start questioning your thoughts and actions without feeling attacked by the outcome to get a better sense of feeling for your body and mind. But please do not forget to make reasonable decisions and always listen to the signs your body is giving you.

Nobody said that it will be easy to discover the unpleasant truth within yourself. Truth is, that it mentally will be quite hard. But if you manage to pull from these opposites, you have such a great power to move yourself forward in life.