Coaching with La Vita Nuova

Making Your Life Work For You

How much joy do you currently have in your life?
If you feel that there is not enough, ask yourself what it might take for you to feel that you're moving closer to a destination that's right for you as a unique individual?

As a life coach, I help people to gain clarity about what kind of life and work will make them happiest. It's about aligning your life with what most inspires you, about understanding who you really are when at your best and working to turn that ideal into reality. As a life coach, I offer holistic life management to my clients to help them to set and achieve their individual life goals!

My Clients
My clients are successful professionals in their thirties to fifties. While they have achieved much, all too often they feel that their lives are living them and that they are somehow imprisoned by their routines. Feeling almost marginalised in their own lives amidst the pressures of work and home commitments, they are often unable to identify what would make them feel most alive and fulfilled.

I generally first hear from prospective clients at a point in their lives when they realise that they don't want to settle for OK or even fairly good. They want more. And they have realised that it is hard to work out by themselves how they might achieve this. Even if you have the motivation and the time, it's difficult to be objective about yourself and to step far enough out of your paradigms and situations to see the big picture.

Happily, I find that by systematically spending properly focused time on what they want to achieve it's possible for everyone to move forward and to make magical and positive changes in their lives, rather than continuing to conform to a cookie-cutter preset role defined by others. Sometimes big changes are called for. Sometimes many small adjustments can make an incredible difference.

It Takes Time
Doing this is important work, life defining work, literally, and we need to be steady, deliberate, and careful so that any life changes made as a result of the coaching process are made with confidence and conviction. It's not about impulsively resigning from your job on Friday and going off to travel round the world. In my experience, it takes people about a year to make sustainable life transformations. My clients include a bored London businessman who is becoming a Scottish property millionaire, a public relations executive who is becoming a novelist, a business owner who is dividing her week between London and a home in Italy and a barrister and mother of 3 who is creating an inspiring work-life balance that will lead to even greater success.

Feeling in charge of your life and creating balance and fulfilment can be a harmonious and gentle process. You need to visualise the big picture of what you want your life to look like, as well as ensuring that each day reflects that vision and balance.

Some Starter Thoughts
Let me introduce you to some life coaching approaches that work wonders for my clients:
Clarify the big picture. What is your vision of your ideal life? What is your dream destination? What are the four values that most inspire you? Are you currently living your life in a way that is centred on your values?

Are your body, mind, spirit and emotions in harmony? Are you taking care of your body, exercising and eating to give you energy and radiance? Do you think positively? Are you taking care of your spirit and emotions, in whatever way feels right to you? You need to feel energised in mind, body and spirit in order to get exciting results in your life.

Have more fun! Decide on what you can do each day to give you pleasure... sitting in a park for 10 minutes and feeling the sun on your face, having fresh flowers at work, meeting a friend for cocktails, going dancing...

Erica Jong once said that if you risk nothing, you end up risking even more. Whether you're 30, 40 or 50, you don't want to wake up in 20 years time feeling sad about what you didn't do or about ways in which you didn't allow yourself to grow.

If you commit to clarifying what you really want and who you really are, the next step in defining the path to your destination is much easier. As the poet David Whyte writes, "anything or anyone/that dates not bring you alive/ is too small for you.