The Evolving Field of Personal Life Coaching

Improving the self is a basic element of self-esteem. If Harold Maslow is to be believed, actualization, the realization of a person’s full potential, is the aim of all human existences and endeavour, the highest form of personal fulfilment. Unfortunately though, achieving such state is a matter of factors both internal and external to a person. Of course, opportunities matter. Without the proper environment and chances to excel, a person cannot achieve self-fulfilment let alone the highest form of self-gratification.

But a significant factor has to do with internal elements such as personality and motivation. In fact according to many motivational guru, personality and motivation are powerful enough to create opportunities and can allow a person to excel even in very difficult environments. This is a critical belief in emerging practice of personal life coaching.

Personal Life Coaching as Principle and Practice

Personal life coaching is a very recent development in the education and training industry particularly in Singapore.  Although many of the tenets of personal life coaching can be found in standard leadership training that has been in use in many industry and sectoral development institutions since the 80’s modern personal coaching has evolved further and farther into other dimensions of human development.

For one, life coaching is now largely considered to be a movement. Its application in business and professional growth has made it a post-modern management transformation. While in non-professional applications, it is widely embraced as spiritual movement due to its focus on harnessing energies and purifying thought processes and focus.

Practically though, it is a combination of both. Today in Singapore, personal life coaching courses are packaged as a management-leadership training guide designed around the belief that leadership and other potentials can be synergized through awakening of energies and levels of charisma and abilities. 

Basic Teachings

In terms of principles and teachings, the main focus of personal life coaching courses in Singapore is the mindset. It promotes the idea that the mind is the central key to unlocking the nature of any person and therefore unleashing his or her potentials.  AS such, a basic adage of personal life coaching is “think big to do big”. This requires expanding a person’s worldview and seeing the bigger picture, becoming more ambitious or elevating aspirations and visions. Such a mindset will push people into discovering not just their limits but their full capacities. Apparently, this success mindset is a combination of being confident that what you have to offer will seriously impact other people and that what your dreams no matter how fleeting can actually come true.

But personal life coaching also acknowledges that success cannot be achieved by individual alone and he or she will require assistance of others. As such, it also teaches client the need to establish a strong reputation in order to create and nurture a strong network of support. Accordingly, this will help boost confidence since a person will have a strong support system in a vast network. 

In terms of network, personal life coaching in Singapore also trains students to be thought leaders. This means enabling them to be personal life coaches in Singapore themselves. Personal life coaching emphasizes to the need build knowledge base and this can be achieved through a network of similarly thinking individuals.