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Phase 4: Create a step by step action plan that really can
work for YOU.
Phase 5: Receive support from your coach, tap into your
inner guidance, take action.
Phase 6: Accountability, celebrate victories, learn and
revise what is not working for you.

This potent coaching system utilizes these various phases until
participants arrive at their destination. In this sense, it is failsafe. Most coaching contracts run for 6-8 weeks. Once learned,
the process can be used repeatedly with or without a coach
(though without a coach you want to find yourself an
accountability partner!)
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Areas of Life - Homework Assignment
What are important areas in our lives?
On the basis of a meta-study of the literature Cummins (1996)
argues for a seven-domain partition: material well-being, health,
productivity, intimacy, safety, community, and emotional wellbeing.
Argyle (2001) mentions domains such as money, health, work
and employment, social relationships, leisure, housing, and
education.
Day (1987) considers thirteen areas, among them: family life,
working activity, social activity, recreation, personal health,
consumption, ownership of durable commodities and
properties, self, spiritual life, and country’s situation.
Flanagan (1978) mentions 15 components, among them:
economic, physical, and health well-being, having and raising
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