Valerie King-Mallar Coaching

If you’ve ever wanted to see what having a life coach is like, this is your opportunity to try 3 sessions for FREE.

I am working towards additional certification in coaching and would like to coach new clients while practicing a few new methods.

There are a couple of caveats:

1. I work primarily with women and while coaching may naturally cover all areas of one’s life, I generally work with women who want to focus on career/entrepreneurship/ leadership.

2. The session’s are via zoom and as part of my requirements, I will need to record the audio to submit for review by a coach supervisor in London. It’s audio only and all identifying material will be excluded (name, location, etc.).

If you’re interested in this opportunity, send me a message and we can chat! I generally set up a quick meeting to answer your questions and to see if it feels like a good fit for you so you’re not locked into the 3 sessions just by reaching out. 😉

Before I answer, a quick confession: despite talking non-stop about goal-setting now, I was never a big goal setter in the past. Although it sounds a little bratty now, I was just happy to go with the flow because it seemed like great opportunities and experiences always fell in my lap (I promise, I’m not trying to sound snobby about it)!

What I realized is that going-with-the-flow/being open to experiences AND goal-setting are not mutually exclusive. In fact, setting goals about where you want to be but being open to the various ways to get there is IDEAL.

So, to answer the question, the first step is to take stock of past experiences to help inform you of what kind of goal you want to achieve. Follow the steps below to get you started:

1. What is one small goal that you want to achieve (choose something that can be achieved in a relatively small amount of time - like a week). If you have a bigger goal, break it down into bite-size goals. The key is to start small.

2. Make sure it is measurable - ie you will very concretely know when you have achieved it. Set a deadline for when you will achieve this goal and put a reminder in your calendar. Again, we recommend about a week out for the deadline!

3. Write it on a piece of paper or keep it on something that you will see everyday - your phone, the bathroom mirror, etc.

4. Think of all of the ways and paths you can take to achieve it (while being open to other opportunities that pop up in your life that my support that goal).

5. Finally, check in at the deadline of your goal to reevaluate. How did it go for you? Did you achieve it? If not, why? If so, how did it feel?

This small process will clue you into how the goal setting process felt for you and what worked and what didn’t!

Good luck - and from a reformed non-goal-setter, I promise you it’s worth it!

One of my secret favorite things is to anchor my workday between a morning mini-drive or mini-hike (and a cup of coffee) and an evening drive. I use the morning drive to prepare myself for the workday and pump myself up for any challenges that might pop up. (It helps to have a killer playlist too!) The evening car ride is for unpacking all that happened so that I am able to relax when I am home. This doesn’t work everyday, but having little rituals makes it easier to decompress.