Lifestyle Management Flashcards
What strategies are can help deal with stress & managing my lifestyle?
Acknowledge what causes stress in my life
Prioritise my time
Exercise
Eat healthy
Get good nights sleep
Stay off drink/cigarettes
What are some stress management techniques?
Breathing control/centring
Progressive muscle relaxation
Thought stopping
What are the benefits of life coaches?
Gain clarity & purpose with identity & where you want to go in life
Reduce & eliminate negative stress
Improve productivity - help reflect & reframe how you’re currently spending days
Non-judgemental point of guidance
Engagement - can help you enjoy & engage in your goals & life again
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What are the limitations of life coaches?
No official governing board - anyone can become ‘qualified’
Coaching costs - can be around £130 per session
Limits independent decision making
No guarantee you’ll be guided in right direction
What is a life coach?
Someone who counsels & encourages clients through personal/career challenges
Psychology/therapy focuses on past, LC focuses on future
Find strengths from weaknesses
Set goals, then find obstacles & opportunities
1st session - discovery session & free
3rd session - usually breakthrough
What are the social benefits of being involved in Sport, Clubs & other leisure organisations?
Friendship - make new friends & learn social skills, how to overlook teammate with bad attitude & empathy for teammates
Respect - learn to respect & honour coach’s decision & teammates. It will also give something to achieve goals & improve in, building self-confidence/respect
Strong work ethic - kids who participate in team sports more likely to be active, hard working students & better future workers, as sport teaches how to be disciplined, focus on task at hand & have patience when times get tough
Perseverance - team wont always win, ref wont always make right call & they’ll deal with disappointment, so they’ll gain willpower & endurance through hard times
Courage - build self-esteem, develop leadership skills
Majorly important for young girls as this is another way to feel important rather than looks & popularity
Name & examine which research methods could a lifestyle coach use to obtain info from clients
Interview:
Could use structured interviews - interview follows a pre-set course of questions
Questions set in advance of interview, so interviewer able to obtain information required
Lifestyle coach needs to keep focused to prevent interview becoming ‘a chat’ & relevant info miss
Interviews may cause client to become anxious due to face to face nature
Questionnaire:
Questionnaires ideal method of gathering primary data if lifestyle seeking info deemed sensitive
Time used effectively as clients can complete the questionnaire at their leisure
Questionnaires can be analysed quickly, therefore enabling lifestyle coach to get started with client
Unless carefully set out & appropriate questions asked, client may not provide info lifestyle coach needs
Observations:
Observation can be important & useful option for lifestyle coach to use as it allows them to see what is really happening in the life of the client
Observation enables lifestyle coach to gain in-depth understanding of lifestyle of the client
Observations are very time-consuming and labour intensive for the lifestyle coach
