At Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio one key exercise, which is leveraged is called “Your Ideal Life.” This is where a coaching client visualizes and describes in detail their ultimate life, and then it is compared to their current reality. As part of the coaching journey, the client and the coach together work to address this gap all in an effort to reach a better future designed by the client themselves. With this increased clarity and understanding of the chasm between what is happening today and where they want to go, in other words, their ideal life, a client is often motivated to move beyond the secure and what they know, and gather the courage to make potential changes in their life or shifts in direction. At Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio clients will get the support they need to pursue what matters most.
There are also different variations of this exercise. For the most common used – “Tje Ideal Life” – questions, such as imagine you are in your ideal home setting. Describe in detail the home, its location. What is around you, even colors,
smells, landscaping and decor. This allows the client to clearly visualize their priorities in this space. Or they might consider what a day is like for them. So the inquiry might be to draw a timeline and picture of their ideal day. A coach might ask, “Describe what you would be doing throughout this time, morning to evening, what type of activities would you do and with whom would you be doing those, along with the location of where you would be doing these activities or would you be alone? Of course the client can describe in as much detail as needed to get a thorough picture of what is important for them to invest time in during their days and nights. There is also the higher level generic question around visualizing their future and living their ideal life. Clients are asked to describe what that would look like in great detail. The coach will provide prompts if a client gets stuck and should encourage time to be taken to not rush through the exercise, but peacefully and quietly consider the answers to these important questions. At Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio it is impressed upon the client to take all the time they need to write, draw out, put pictures together, or whatever resonates with the client to get a clear picture of that ideal life. It is an important exercise and should be taken seriously if a client wishes to truly pursue what matters most.
There is also the slight variation of the ideal life. With the same concept in mine, the client will consider what their ideal role might be. So with the focus on work or profession questions such as, “Imagine you are working somewhere that is a perfect fit just for you. What would the values be of that organization and what would the culture be like?” The coach might explore with the client other topics such as digging into a list of things that would be included in a persons ideal role or who they might be working with. Also helpful might be to describe what a person‘s work schedule would look like and work location and setting as well. A client can get the support they need at Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio two uncover their current reality of the role they are currently in, bring clarity to what their ideal role would entail, and generate a plan to pursue that ideal as well as get encouragement along the way.
One additional variation of the ideal life concept is around “your ideal team.” Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio would also be able to support this exercise. Clients again define their current state and then seek to understand their ideal team situation. Questions they might answer. Include one such as “what would your teams mission be?” Or “what would your role be on this ideal team?“ Another question would be a request to visualize a client’s ideal team, list who would be on that team and then detail out what each person would do. This gives extra color and understanding to what is important to the client. Of course, all of these are variations of a similar concept, which is, understanding where a person is today and gaining clarity on where they would like to go or be or do as an ideal, and then working to understand what goals and associated plans would need to be in place to pursue that ideal successfully.
It is important at Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio to encourage clients along the way to reach the goals. They have set for themselves. Especially because this can be a significant challenge in a person’s life but an incredibly impactful success if they are disciplined in their actions and commitment.
The famous author, Ralph Waldo Emerson makes a very solid point on this topic of an ideal life or a life well lived. He said “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.“ it is highly likely that taking this attitude will an essence increase a person’s odds of being happy as they pursue what is significant to them, what is meaningful in their lives, and what is a passion in their heart.
At Live on Purpose | Life Coaching – life coaching San Antonio clients will get whatever support is needed to pursue the vision they have for their lives, that ideal. They have been seeking by digging a bit deeper and identifying the gaps and perhaps leaving the safe and known behind for what really matters most. This is the essence of the coaching journey and an exciting one at that.