Stephen Rinaldi - Life Coaching - Awaken Your True Self

Thank you for your interest in becoming one of my highly-valued personal coaching clients. I guarantee you will experience a major shift in your understanding of the world around you, as you embark on an exciting and life-changing journey of self-discovery.

One-by-one, we will identify and crush those long standing, self-made obstacles that have been standing in the way of reaching your goals. It's not always an easy process - and I will be direct and tough with you at times. However, you will come through the process a changed person.

As one of my coaching clients, your program will be highly personalized and conducted mostly by e-mail - both for your convenience AND so that you will have a written record of our correspondence. I feel that this is very unique and important aspect to my coaching work. As a writer, I am best able to express myself to you by way of the written word. This allows me the time to carefully consider what I need to communicate to you based on your unique situation - and to do it in a way that is most powerful. Writing also allows YOU to commit yourself in a way that's different that just chatting over the phone.

While telephone coaching certainly has its place, it seems that many coaches utilize the phone too much (or even exclusively) - basically out of convenience. Also, if as a coaching client, you work primarily with your coach over the phone, it is too easy to simply forget what has been said, or to say things you may have no intention of following through on. With a written record, I can more easily hold you accountable! AND you will be able to very easily go back later and be amazed at the progress you have made over time.

As a supplementary service, some of my clients like to schedule an occasional phone call in conjunction with our regular e-mail sessions; once each month or two, for example.

A. I tell most clients plan on 1 or 2 e-mail exchanges during the course of a week. That is usually sufficient to determine and plan your actions for the week and provide you with feedback (or a constructive scolding!) on the results.

A. As a Metaphysical Practitioner, I take a holistic approach to personal development. This means that rather than picking apart and focusing on the individual habits that may be holding you back from reaching your potential, we instead focus on discovering the overlying reasons why you look at the world and yourself the way you do. Only THEN can we determine together the specific adjustments you should be making to realize your goals.

My initial goal with most clients is to get you to look beneath your lifetime of conditioning to SEE (many for the first time ever) who you really are. Most people live only in their brain, seeing life through the filter of their upbringing, family and peer expectations, cultural norms, etc. My goal is to help you see your life and the world through your MIND. I'm a believer in daily meditation and the Law of Attraction, so don't be surprised if we dive right into these subjects early on.

Also, as an Ordained Buddhist Monk, I do also come at issues from that philosophical point of view. This means that we will very likely be discussing attachment issues as they effect your life, as well as personal responsibility for your life. My goal isn't to turn you into a Buddhist. However, if you are of the belief that you are not responsible for your own actions and/or that your attachments in life don't limit your personal development, then we're probably not a good match.

Q. Can anyone benefit from personal coaching?

A. Yes and No. If you stubbornly refuse to believe that YOU play the biggest part in why you're not living the life you think you should be., If you're the type that blames everyone and everything else in the world for your situation, then coaching probably isn't for you at this time. You will have to get beyond those issues first before you will benefit from this type of coaching work. You'd just be wasting my time and yours.

However, for those that understand that it is their own habits that limit them from reaching their potential, personal coaching offers an exciting (and sometimes challenging) journey of self-discovery, action and results.

Q. How quickly should I expect results from our coaching sessions?

A. Some realizations come quickly and others take a little time. Remember, you can't expect a lifetime of conditioning to disappear overnight. With that said, however, there will often be times (especially early on in our sessions) where something I communicate to you will click immediately and you will experience a dramatic shift in your awareness of the world around you, or your "self" in particular. Other changes are more subtle and take longer. In all cases, we want to help you to keep progressing over the long term - and to accomplish that, both the sudden dramatic shifts and more subtle longer-term positive changes are necessary and welcomed.

Q. What is the difference between traditional therapy and personal coaching?

A. First, it's important to understand that what I offer to you is NOT traditional psychiatric therapy in any way. If you are experiencing mental illness of any kind, you should immediately contact an appropriate licensed medical professional that can help you.

With that said, traditional therapies typically focus solely on your past, in an attempt to help you sort through and come to terms with past traumatic experiences that are causing turmoil in your life.

In coaching, however, I'm not really concerned about the specific details of your past experiences. In fact, most of your conditioning mirrors the conditioning of most people in our modern western society. Yes, you are a unique person..., but you must also realize that most of the decisions you make are based mostly on fitting in with others and seeking the approval of others. I want to know how you see the world and yourself today. I don't want or need to know about every event or experience (good or bad) that has happened in the past. I want to guide you toward your own self-discovery by helping you to see beneath your lifetime of conditioning. This approach is aimed at living in the present and helping you to creating the future you truly desire. Again, I take a holistic approach to personal coaching. It is the whole you of today that I am interested in - not a collection of your past events.