5 Reasons You Should Integrate Life Coaching in TO Your Career and Business Coaching Journey

In a world that values progress, more-ness, always-on-ness, never ending growth and expected ideas of success, balancing the role of work (whether you're in a career or have your own small business... or both!) with your own sense of self, your relationship, your family or just the stuff that make life feel like one you want to live, can sometimes feel challenging. If you find yourself feeling like you have to perform, or put on a mask for work, too tired for other things in your life, not feeling yourself, or simply just not finding as much joy in life, integrating life coaching into your career and business coaching journey can be a game-changer. Here are five strong reasons why you shouldn’t overlook this holistic approach.

1. Holistic Development

Career coaching and business coaching often zero in on specific skills and strategies to propel you forward. Yet, life coaching expands this view by considering your overall well-being and who you actually are as a person. For instance, a 2022 study found that individuals who engaged in both life and career coaching reported a 64% increase in personal satisfaction and better emotional health compared to those who focused solely on career strategies.

By emphasising holistic development, you build a solid foundation to create your own version of success. This approach promotes professional achievements that are intrinsically aligned with your own desired personal growth, ensuring that you holistically integrate your career and or business goals in to a life that feels like your own, not someone else's.

2. Improved Clarity and Focus

Clarifying your career goals is crucial for navigating your professional path. Life coaching offers practical tools to help you identify your core values and long-term aspirations. The kind of life coaching I offer has a therapeutic element to it, so it connects all of this to your deeper sense of meaning and motivation in life.

By gaining clarity on what truly matters to you, you will feel a deeper sense of internal motivation and clarity in life, career and or business. This alignment between personal values and career enhances your focus, leading to more impactful outcomes and sustainable transformations that will last beyond the work we do together.

3. Enhanced Emotional Resilience

The modern workplace sells itself as rational, but we all know that work and business is emotional. Think office politics, confidence issues, stress, power dynamics, trust and anxiety when it comes to restructures, communicating with different personalities in your team. Life coaching equips you with awareness, understanding, techniques and tools that help you navigate all these stressors, deepen self trust, and build mental strength and emotional flexibility.

Additionally, enhancing your emotional intelligence through life coaching enables you to manage workplace relationships more effectively. Understanding your emotions and their impact on your decisions allows you to navigate difficult situations with ease.

4. DEEPENED Self-Confidence, SELF-TRUST AND SELF-BELIEF

Self-doubt can hinder your professional aspirations. While career coaching emphasises skills and strategies, integrating life coaching helps you build genuine self-confidence - the kind that reprogrammes how you see yourself, speak to yourself, and perceive the world around you. Techniques like visualisation, getting curious about limiting beliefs that could do with a reframe, relational approaches and confidence coaching can lead to a significant boost in self-esteem.

For example, people in life coaching programs often report an increase in their willingness to pursue new opportunities. A stronger sense of self-worth empowers you to look around, take bold steps, and open doors that may have previously felt closed. OR, find new ways to navigate the environments, dynamics and work situations that you are already in.

5. Work-Life Integration BY COMBINING LIFE AND CAREER COACHING

Success in your career should not come at the cost of your personal life and the things you dream of for yourself. There are so many options that are possible for us in life, but life is meant to be lived and so we shouldn't sacrifice the ones we feel most excited about or put them on hold for too long. Work doesn't have to be something you are deeply in love with, but I do believe that it should, on the whole, be something manageable and enjoyable enough, as well as something that also allows you to enjoy life. By integrating life coaching with career coaching or business coaching, the process naturally highlights the importance of work-life integration, helping you find balance in your various commitments, wants and personal needs.

When career and business coaching align with life coaching principles, you create a more holistic approach to success - one that feels like your own version. This method acknowledges your health, relationships, and personal passions, leading to lower stress levels and an increase in overall satisfaction.

Final Thoughts

Integrating life coaching into your career and business coaching journey is more than just a nice to have —it’s essential for anyone seeking a well-rounded and fulfilling life. By focusing on holistic development, enhancing clarity, building emotional resilience, boosting self-confidence, and fostering work-life integration, you set yourself up for longer-lasting, more sustainable and more meaningful personal and professional success.

If you'd like to explore this further, contact me and we can book you in for a try out session.