Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching
with both a phychotheraputic and spiritual orientation.
What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching is using a trained professional to break through the obstacles to getting the things done in life that you need to and want to get done.

By presenting your issues to an outside observer, you improve your chances of really being able to find out what is going on with your life so as to make it work better. It’s an offshoot of two heads are better than one especially if one of them is a trained observer and helper of human beings.

Problems are problems only as long as they aren’t solved.

Life coaching is borrowing the expertise of someone else to help get the snarls out of one’s own life.

Personal Outcomes Worth Having

You may want to develop the quality of PERSISTENCE. So often when we work on projects, we get discouraged and stop because we think that we aren’t getting the results that we should. That inner critical commentary is guaranteed to slow us down and make doing things tedious and tiresome.
You may want to develop the quality of SENSITIVE EMPATHY. This is excellent for rapport building in business or at home. Of course, it goes without saying that this quality has to be genuine. You have to feel and be this quality. You have to feel a certain percentage of what the person you are working with is feeling. You don’t want to feel too much of what the person you are working with is feeling, but you want to feel enough so that you are actually acquainted with what they are experiencing.

You may want to develop a mind set of CREATIVITY. This is a way of seeing the possibilities in others, yourself and in situations. For example, one person simply sees a field of flowers, but another person sees an array of interesting shapes that can be adapted to different wallpaper patterns, another person will see a certain color palette that can be adapted to accessorizing new houses, and another person will be drawn to doing a survey of the insect life in that field.

The possibilities are many and they can be tapped into by being asked the right questions.

Larry Stephens, LCSW
708 386-3422

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Life Coach Larry Stephens offering Chicago area life coaching
with both a phychotheraputic and spiritual orientation.