Last night I started to think about why people come to me for life coaching and one of the common reasons is that you feel you are at a crossroads in your life? So it started me thinking about why you might be there, what it’s like there and what you can do to ensure you get on the right road so that’s what this blog is about.

People get to a crossroads in their lives for all manner of reasons. I found myself at that place 8 years ago just before I left my job in the NHS. So as in my case it was about my career, for others it may be a long term relationship that is no longer fulfilling. Others find themselves at the crossroads after being made redundant or after a divorce. For others an illness, for example breast cancer, has made them sit up and think about their lives. And finally there are the many women who have devoted themselves to bringing up their families, the families leave home and the woman is left thinking “What Now?”

Being at the crossroads may be scary, it may be exciting or a combination of both. It can also be confusing and uncertain: “Which way do I go?” But what’s absolutely certain is that it’s a place of choice and that’s what’s exciting but also scary “What if I make the wrong choice?” And it’s unknown and unexplored. We feel much safer in the places we know even if we’re not particularly happy because we’re familiar with it and understand the rules.

This is the very stuff of life coaching and what I find so exciting. A life coach works alongside the client helping her clarify her values, discover what’s important to her, get to know herself better so that she can best make the choices she wants to make, see where it is she wants to go, plan the route to get there and then get into action.

It is for all of you who are at that crossroads that I am running my “What Next?” programme starting in January; a series of 6 x 2 hour early evening workshops which will help you take the right direction. It will be held at Zenchi Clinic, near Tarporley in Cheshire. Please call me to find out more or come to our open evening on Jan 12th at 6.30 at Zenchi or to book on click here.