Getting a Life Coach

I just got off the phone with a rep from a Life coaching firm. I had booked an initial consultation and i was really glad to hear back after two days because i was starting to think they had laid me off. I'm so excited to see them. I feel like i really need some help especially in regards to my self esteem and how it's being chipped away from not being able to get full time work and to be honest, kind of not going anywhere in life. I feel so at war with myself sometimes. Like i know how much i'm really capable of but life not giving me the opportunities I need to enter into the arena. I don't know what to expect from this initial consultation. I hope that it goes well. All I know is that I've had so many shrinks and psychologists and they've been so hopeless. The thing about Life coaches is that they are more hands on. They are solution driven rather than "theory" driven like Psychologists are.

I've always said that I know who i am and that i know exactly what I want. But you know what's even harder than discovering what you want or who you are? It's knowing what initial first steps to take. Or perhaps even more dauntingly, how to be emotionally prepared enough for the first steps. All I know is that i want to work hard towards what I want in life. And that despite being bought up with a skewed notion that I am owed something from the world, i have to do it the old fashioned way just like everyone else. The hard way. The real way. Because i've been deluded and the world really owes me nothing at all.

I've always thought about life coaches and wondered what they'd be like as an alternative to psychologists. I think i'm sick of wallowing over my problems and i'm ready to take action into trying to change things for real. I feel old and I have so many demands upon myself before i reach 30, but despite that inside of me i know that i'm still young and that i have many years ahead to still BE young and achieve what i want too. I know i want to be published, continue to write, get my own apartment back again and to work full time to earn my own keep. I want to be independent and energetic. I want to be motivated and to not feel like things are only worth doing if you are guaranteed a positive outcome.