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Can you imagine living two lives? I can, as this is how I would
have described my life before I commenced Life Coaching with Nuala.
I was living a successful, confident, professional life but a much
less successful and less confident private life. Even within my
professional life, I always felt my achievements were never enough
and I would have described myself as a very negative person.
When I met Nuala she helped me see it was the same person living
both lives and she enabled me to see and acknowledge my achievements.
She encouraged me to log those achievements and all positivity in
my life daily. Recording these positive achievements have helped
me experience my professional life and my private life as the "same
person" for the first time in 20 years, that is an amazing
feeling!.
I now have a much more positive outlook on my overall life and am
gaining more confidence in my private life every day.
Thank you Nuala for showing me the way to my new thinking.
Before I started my coaching journey, I was at a place in my life
where I was stuck, I just did not know how to get going again.
I had read some of Nuala's articles in my local paper The Liffey
Champion, and decided to make contact.
We met, and Nuala explained the Wheel of Life and how to rate each
segment in it. The result was like a light bulb being switched on
in my head.
With the eight sections of the wheel representing balance, Nuala
showed me some simple techniques in ranking my level of satisfaction
within the various areas in my life. I then began to work on the
relevant segments, always aiming towards a 10. When the initial
sections were worked on, I then moved on to the next relevant section
of life which required some work. Nuala emphasised to me the importance
of viewing the Wheel of Life, (in other words my overall life) on
a regular basis and acknowledging myself on my daily progress. I
would never have previously considered acknowledging myself and
the positivities in my life.
Many thanks Nuala for the guided journey!
Having been coached by Nuala via Skype over a 2-month period,
I found her to be a results-oriented, focused professional, Nuala
possesses key qualities of empathy, resilience and determination
and brings great experience into the life & business coaching
field.
I was lucky enough to meet Nuala on a business course we
both attended. I had recently lost my job and was in the process
of setting up a small business but I wasn't sure if this was the
way for me to go.
Having spoken with Nuala, I realised a few things about myself
and my future. As time went on I opened my mind up to opportunities
that were out there.
The business which I was in the process of setting up is going
very well due to my new attitude towards it. I now have another
project underway which has excellent potential.
Thank you Nuala for the great inspiration and help.
On losing my job in January 2009 when I was not seeing much hope
for the future. I found my meeting with Nuala and additional conversations
a great help in giving me the confidence and determination to
start out building a music career for myself.
Since then I've gone from have an empty dairy to doing 3 - 4 gigs
per week, made up of pubs, parties and weddings. I've also upgraded
my P.A system and added lights to cater for the bigger gigs!
I'm currently getting ready to audition for Irelands Got Talent
competition, starting in September so here's hoping…
So thanks again Nuala for all your help and giving me the encouragement
I needed at the time of our meeting.
I found it difficult at the beginning of my first coaching session
to fully understand how life coaching would really help me. I
needn't have been so worried!. Having been let go from my job
I wasn't sure what direction to go. All I had were negative thoughts
and emotions. The sessions with Nuala taught me how a simple goal
backed up with confidence and positivity can overcome so much.
Simple baby steps lead to big things being accomplished.
Every night I wrote a few simple lines on what I had achieved
that day. This, I felt was a great boost for my self- confidence
and made me stronger again. I found on the bad days that re-reading
what I wrote kept me aware of where I was and where I wanted to
go. I also logged what I wanted to do and the steps I needed to
take to fulfill my goals.
I found the sessions benefited me greatly, a lot of the coaching
seemed common sense, but when your whole train of thought is negative,
the common sense goes out the window. What I learnt from Nuala
did not only apply to the one bad situation but really it applies
to all the daily challenges and decisions that I encounter throughout
my life.
Following our sessions, I was back to my healthy happy self and
felt I had made huge progress. At the start, I thought there was
no way I could turn my situation around but as I read once 'out
of no way, a way can be made' and I really felt I came on leaps
and bounds thanks to Nuala's help and advice.
Following my experience of being coached by Nuala, I would certainly
recommend her to anybody who feels they are drifting along without
focus or intention. Nuala holds you accountable from one session
to the next which I found to be a great “push” for
me to act and move on the goals we spoke about achieving.
When my marriage broke up I was completely torn up. I was searching
everywhere for help. Finally, I realised that I had enough knowledge
but somehow I could not hang it all together. I needed someone
independent but professional to whom I could refer when
I wasn’t clear as to where to go or what to do next. On
coming across a business card stating: "Live the
life you imagined”, and the words "Empowers
you for Life". I decided this could be my next move
and contacted Nuala. We met and I have made great progress since.
She encouraged me to go on into life especially into socialising,
the dimension I was missing and to keep a record of all
the good things and successes from each day. She kept
in contact with me for about 3 months and with Nuala as my "supporter"
I managed to walk away from my personal island over the stepping
stones to the solid ground of life.
As an engineer I assumed that going to a life coach I could present
a set of problems, reveal my qualifications and through using
something like a mathematical formula I would be provided with
a set of answers and job titles which may suit me!. However, on
leaving the sessions with Nuala I understood that Life Coaching
is much more expansive than that. It is a partnership, whereby
the client decides the agenda and the coach encourages
forward movement towards the client's goal.
Thanks to the support and encouragement from Nuala I have the
confidence now to explore my interests/hobbies and I am now seeing
an avenue whereby (that) my hobby can become a source of income.
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