I am so glad to receive so many comments from you guys and in fact this open up my mind on how people react when come to this 'coaching' terms. There are many ways to improve our lives and coaching is just part of it. We could learn through mentoring, reading self help books, talking to friends, religions...all these would help depends on individual. Life coaching is part of the options if you are willing to try this on. However, if other methods suit you better of course you should follow that path! As for me, I read, I talk to different people, and now taking up coaching program. Different options give me different perspective and I grow from each of them.
I believe my invitation in this discussion is mainly because I want to share from what I learn. There are many people out there dare to speak out their mind and work on their life which is really good, however there are also many people wish someone could lend them listening ears because they couldn't find anyone to share. I am here for those people, as long they arewilling to open up, I am willing to listen and see how could I stand for them. For those who wish to share what they have learnt in their lives, I am far more than happy to exchange our views.
Why I am doing this? Of course it's not because I am too free and nothing else better to do! LOL. To share a little bit about myself, I am a sales manager during the day and a part time tutor at night and weekends. On top of that, I am also a coach in training and undergoing a training program now. I am really busy with my own life.
So why am I still doing this? In the past, I met many people and they have created great impact in my life, be it good or bad. While meeting some really bad people who break my heart, I meet many good people who always want me to live a good life. I appreciate that. I promise myself before, if someone could make my life better, why can't I do for other people too? Be it I know as friends or strangers.
Thus my full time work provides me steady income and I really love my job, while giving tuition besides the side income, I could use this tools to educate our next generation and even there is only one student to be a good person who spread kindness and love to another person, ball will start to roll from there. Thus, my teaching is not about teaching just from the books, but more on what values do I really want to bring into them.
Why coaching? Coz I personally feel that advising sometimes might not be the best way to deal with someone's issue because the person might not feel being empowered if I just tell them what to do (even I may know the answer). More importantly is how could I chat with them so that they could find out what truly matters them and they want to make the change to improve their lives, isn't more meaningful?
If you talking about charity work, well I am doing that too. Currently I have a sponsored kid in Ethopia, to make sure I could bring in values, I draw pictures to my kids (coz she is only 5 years old) to let her feel that I could connect with her even there is no wordings in our letter. I want her to know that beside monetary assistance that I can provide, I love her even she doesn't know who am I. Who has set the rule that I could only love someone who is very close to me? Who tells me that I couldn't love a stranger and put a smile on them?
On top of that, I have given a motivational workshop to an orphanage home as my charity work few months back. I am currently working with my friends to see how could we bring this workshop to more homes. The message that I want to deliver is that no one has a choice to choose their parents, but they definitely have choice to choose their life! But first of all they will be nothing if they think they are no one and lack of self confidence!
I don't need to be your best friend to share your story coz I have proved it tonite. I met this sweet girl in a pub and we exchange msn and we chatted today, she was very moody today but opened up and shared a lot with me. I just chat with her. I have another person who chatted with me tonite too, I just met her once and she was asking around just to get my contacts so that we can keep in touch. See! I have met so many who helped me in the best, if I can do my part for other people too, should I care if I know them well in the first place? They are all my friends just by chatting through msn!
As long someone is serious about his/her life and want to make a change, I am here for him/her!
p/s: Besides doing so many stuff, I also make sure that I have time for myself doing things that I like! Going out with friends, clubbing, reading books, watching movies, listening to songs. I do enjoy my life