Kelly was getting ready to retire and worried about how sometimes people experience declining health and capacity when no longer working.\u00a0 A colleague suggested Kelly contact a coach.\u00a0 Kelly was unsure how having a coach applied in this situation and wondered about the return value on the investment.<\/p>\n
At a networking event, Kelly met a coach.\u00a0 The coach offered Kelly a free 30-minute coaching session to get a sense of how coaching worked.\u00a0 Kelly enjoyed the free session and discussed the possibility of coaching<\/a> for the transition from a full time career to retirement.<\/p>\n The coach explained the whole person process of starting with a session asking about goals in all different areas for the big picture.\u00a0 Kelly said that it seemed talking about goals in all areas was irrelevant because after retirement there was not a whole lot to work on.\u00a0 The coach asked Kelly about how the concern over a decline due to retiring was related to goals in different areas.\u00a0 Kelly thought about this and agreed to do a few sessions.\u00a0 The coach declined to take Kelly on as a client<\/a> because it was not a good fit for Kelly.<\/p>\n After 6 months of retirement, Kelly called the coach again.\u00a0 Kelly shared a new awareness of how not having goals meant not having direction which led to doing little or nothing.\u00a0 Kelly asked to start the coaching relationship<\/a> and to use the whole person approach.\u00a0 As a result, Kelly discovered interests in a number of areas and personal value in actively pursuing several.\u00a0 Now Kelly is active volunteering and traveling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kelly was getting ready to retire and worried about how sometimes people experience declining health and capacity when no longer working.\u00a0 A colleague suggested Kelly … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[70,77,48,50,55,81,49,88,102,76],"class_list":["post-4083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-stories","tag-achieve-and-sustain-excellence","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-code-of-ethics","tag-effective-coaching","tag-goal-setting","tag-understand","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n