It's a valid question at any time, the 'right now' part feels particularly relevant as I write this in October 2022, just to give some context!
Yes. No. It depends. Probably. Maybe. Send help!
The first five answers are ones you’d probably get from asking five different people, leaving you none the wiser. I realise my thoughts on this are coming from a life coach, but I am going to do my best to be balanced in my response!
There’s no doubting the current economic and political climate in the UK right now is pretty dire. In fact, just when you think we’ve hit a new low, the current government (who are also busy playing musical chairs and musical policies / budgets etc) make some other unfathomable decision (and then later backtrack on it at surprising speed). However, this is not a political post, I rarely find discussing politics is a good idea! But it is the backdrop of what we are facing in the UK currently, and we are feeling the pinch.
I am a working mum, my husband works full time and our girl is in primary school. We live in south Devon, we have a mortgage and two of the laziest cats known to man (they are 14.5 to be fair and I think plan on living forever through impressive energy preservation techniques). I’ve noticed nearly all the items I buy at the supermarket are steadily increasing, my energy meter likes to surprise me with how much it can climb by each day, and the number of offers I used to try to take advantage of are dropping or disappearing altogether. I’m mindful of what I’m spending, what on, and what we are getting for it. In short, I absolutely get it – many of us are trying to tighten our belts, understandably so.
I can therefore totally understand the perspective that life coaching would be a luxury, especially now, and something to forgo. And I’m certainly not going to try and convince anyone that they NEED to have it (see my post on the ‘dark side’ for more on this!). But I do think that coaching can be incredibly beneficial for so many people, and I can say this from personal experience too. It was not a luxury for me – I doubt I would have made the leap from employed to self employed without it.
Why life coaching may not be a luxury
I know what it is like to keep muddling along, imagining somehow that the ‘right time’ would appear for a shift to magically occur and for something I wanted to happen to materialise of its own accord. I know from experience that waiting and hoping also don’t tend to give rise to much change either. The truth is, your life needs proactivity from you, not passivity, and that’s whether you choose to engage a life coach to help you or not. Things rarely just change for the better over time purely on their own.
The answer to the question is life coaching a luxury right now for you is based on how you are doing, feeling and thinking, generally speaking, right now about your life, your situation, circumstances, your career, relationships and so on. If your answers to those are pretty positive, coaching might not be what you are looking for or beneficial to you right now. But if you are feeling unclear on what direction to be heading in, or that you are holding yourself back in some way, or you are just feeling lost, stuck or overwhelmed with what is going on in your life, then coaching could absolutely be worth exploring.
My passion is supporting working mums to not put themselves last on the priority list, in the midst of juggling home life and working life, not losing their own identity in the gap in between. If this is you, please reach out. We can have a conversation before you decide if coaching is a luxury or not, and it’s fine for you to decide either way.
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