Working with a life coach
Regular sessions with a coach who sets priorities and holds you to them
Ongoing paid sessions with a coach whose job is to set priorities with you and then hold you to them, usually by phone or video, sometimes with daily check-ins by text. Unlike therapy the focus is forward: what you say you want, where your behavior does not match, and what excuse is standing in the way. Good coaches are blunt. Fees vary enormously and the field is unregulated, so people tend to find one by referral. Users describe it with the same logic as a sports coach: elite performers have one, so why not for the rest of life.
People on record
Sorted by strength of stance
Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Hugh JackmanDoes it
Actor · Wolverine and The Greatest Showman
Has worked with life coach Lauren Zander, whom he found through Dr. Mark Hyman, for four years, and says the work has changed his life. Her job, as he tells it, is to call him on perfectionism and safety-net thinking. Federer has a full-time coach, he points out, so why not invest the same in the art of living.
Source: The Tim Ferriss Show #444 transcript
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Writing to unload the mind, usually first thing or last thing
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Deliberate discomfort
Choosing the thing you do not want to do, daily, as its own training
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A high savings rate
Bank a large share of income by spending well below what the income allows
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Accountability mirror
Telling yourself the blunt truth in the mirror every day, then fixing it
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Act on the thing causing stress
Make the first call or send the first email on whatever is nagging at you
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Asking for help
Four words, can you help me, used on purpose rather than as a last resort
On record from 1 of 62 tracked people: 1 recommends it
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