Before starting any coaching relationship, complete these short “quizzes” to get your mindset into the right place for an open, engaged coaching experience.
Copy each one into an email, and send to Suzan in advance of your first appointment.
QUIZ #1: Client Readiness Quiz: Copy below or download the .pdf version here.
Please answer “Yes” or “No” in response to the following questions. You may highlight or underline your answers. Be completely honest with yourself so you can determine if you are ready for coaching.
1) Do you want to make a significant change or changes in your life? Y/N
2) Making significant changes in your life will require an investment of time. Will you commit to “showing up” for each of your coaching sessions within the coaching package you choose? Y/N
3) Will you create time to do the homework you and your coach design to support getting the results you want? Y/N
4) Coaching, although an opportunity to change limiting views and behaviors, is NOT therapy (going to the past to resolve issues). Coaching brings awareness to behaviors which are not serving you in the present so you may create the life you want for your future. Is this what you want? Y/N
5) Coaching is about learning to TRUST THE PROCESS. At times you may feel some discomfort as we explore areas which may be blocking your success and life fulfillment. Are you willing to trust that you CAN move through them and do the work necessary to get to the other side (where your creativity, passion, and joy resides)? Y/N
6) Coaching is a priceless gift you allow yourself to have. You are worth it! Are you willing to make a financial investment in yourself so you can reach your highest potential? Y/N
7) Supportive relationships help reinforce your coaching. Do you have a support network (encouraging family and/or friends) in place that will be there for you as you make substantial life changes? Y/N
8) Coaching involves taking risks (which you design with your coach). Do you feel ready to play a bigger game in your life? Y/N
9) Coaching requires willingness. Do you love yourself enough to take action toward creating the life you want to have; the person you want to be? Y/N
10) Do you have a place at home or work where you can phone your coach for the sessions where you will have complete privacy? Y/N
QUIZ #2: Life Focus Areas Assessment Copy below or download the .pdf version here.
What is the importance of Life Focus Areas (LFA’s)?
Ensure you achieve the full potential of your “whole” self to experience the greatest possible quality of life. Each part (LFA) is vitally important to one’s “whole” well-being.
Instructions:
Select eight LFA’s and list them below.
You may use the suggestions below or create your own. List whatever works for YOU. It needs to look like YOUR life.
Then highlight or underline each one from 1-10 (10 being completely in balance, great energy and high level of satisfaction to 1 being extremely low energy and satisfaction).
Suggestions:
- Professional/Career/Vocation Financial
- Spiritual/Personal Growth Health/Recreational/Fitness
- Relationships with Family Relationship with Significant Other or Marriage
- Travel Home Projects
- Relationships with Friends Fun/Entertainment
- Feelings (positive attitudes and emotional changes)
- Things I want to have (i.e. new car) Things I want to do (i.e. take an art class)
1. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
2. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
3. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
4. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
5. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
6. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8. _______________________________________ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Wild geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the other clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Mary Oliver
