Leanne Lindsey

I am a personal life coach based in North London.

I work with a range of clients which include men and women, professionals and entrepreneurs and my coaching sessions are tailored to each client.

I am an extremely positive person who always tries to find a positive in every situation. I am passionate about personal development and I believe that everyone can achieve anything they want in life as long as they believe in themselves and are willing to put in the work. I believe that there is no such thing as failure, just lessons in life. I strongly believe that it is more important to try something and not succeed than to go through life thinking what if? I recognise that life is hard sometimes and that there are many problems in the world and lots of horrible things happen. Therefore I believe that it is vital to make the most of life and live it to the fullest.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• spend time with you to discover what your aims, ambitions and strengths are

• help you to define your goals and motivate you to achieve them

• support you in deciding what actions you want to take

• listen to you, believe in you, encourage you and give you 100% of my energy
  and commitment

• give you assistance, support and guidance

• provide you with inspiration and motivation

• share with you all my knowledge, skills, experience and expertise where appropriate
  and when I deem necessary

• challenge any self-deceptions that hinder your progress towards achieving your goals

• lift the bar just when you thought you had reached it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I decided to become a life coach after being unable to work for 3 months due to RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury). I have worked in IT since 2001 starting as developer, moving on to become a project manager. Through years of using the computer I developed RSI. Over a period of 4 years, my condition became increasingly worse until I was unable to work for 3 months. During this time I was unable to do most everyday tasks such as drive, vacuum, wash the dishes, use the PC, etc. I’d had severe pain many times in the past so I thought I would only be off work for 2 weeks – as that was the initial amount of time I was signed off for by my GP. After 6 weeks of little improvement, I saw a specialist. I was told that there was nothing medically that could be done. I was told that it was a condition I would have to just learn to manage through exercise and pain killers. I was devastated! Although there was nothing seriously wrong, I wondered “would I have to live with this condition forever?”

I then went through a series of emotions. At first I felt helpless and depressed. I have always been a very independent person and now I was dependent on family and friends to do everyday things – would my condition worsen? Had I lost my independence forever? I then became worried and panicked. My job was the main reason for my condition. What if I could not work again? How would I pay my mortgage and the rest of my bills? How would I get another job? IT is all I knew but I couldn’t continue in IT. What was I going to do?

At the same time I had started reading a book by Susan Jeffers called Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. As I read the book it was as if the author was talking to me directly. Through physiotherapy, swimming and Pilates my condition began to improve and I was slowly able
to start doing everyday things again. I began researching RSI and the experiences of other sufferers. I also began reading around the subject as well as around the area of taking control of your life and changing things for the better no matter what the circumstances.

I started to think about my job, my degree and the reason I went into IT. I then thought about my personality and my interests and what I really enjoyed in life. I have always wanted to work for myself. I have always wanted to do something worthwhile and something that contributed to making people’s lives better. In the past I had worked as a positive role model mentor in a secondary school mentoring underachieving children. I really enjoyed the work and considered becoming a learning mentor but it would have meant a drastic cut in my income and I would still not have been working for myself. I had also considered becoming a counsellor but it wasn’t exactly what I wanted to do. I enjoyed motivating people to move forward in their lives and inspiring them to believe that they can achieve anything they put their mind to.

A year before I was forced to stop working due to my RSI, a friend had attended a life coaching course at a local college and told me about it. I didn’t really know anything about life coaching at the time but it sounded like something I would be interested in so I attended the course. Once completing the course I knew straight away that I wanted to be a life coach. The essence of
life coaching was completely in line with who I am as a person and what I believe in and I had seen the difference the course had to made to the other people attending. I began to look into
life coaching but my drive and desire to become a life coach quickly began to fade. I still wanted to become a life coach 100%! However, I started to discover how much it would cost to become qualified and there were so many courses? How would I know which one to choose? Which was the best one? Which one could I afford? When would I study? Where would I study? I couldn’t afford to leave my job. Then the voices of those around me began to grow louder with questions of “are you sure?” “But what about this...?” “And what about that…?” So I convinced myself it was not what I wanted and that I could be happy as a project manager in IT and began to look into gaining qualifications to help me get a better paid project management job. Time went by and I continued to read my personal development books and studied to gain my PRINCE 2 project management qualification. I passed the Foundation stage just weeks before my RSI forced me to stop work.

Whilst feeling all the emotions of devastation, helplessness depression, worry and panic, I continued to read the book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. As I neared the end of the book my feelings started to change. I started to review all the things I had covered in the life coaching course I had attended the previous year. I then started to realise that if I did not take control that my RSI would take over and would only get worse, not better. I then became positive, motivated and determined. As soon as I was well enough to use the PC, I started researching how to become a life coach, what courses were available, cost, location, everything. I drew up a list of 10 things in order of priority that were important for me in finding the right course. Once I identified the right course I called up and booked my place. And the rest as they say is history!

The everyday stresses of life, the fear of failure and the values and beliefs we have been taught throughout our life are just some of the obstacles that can make it extremely challenging to find the courage, energy, resources and belief to make the necessary changes to start living the life we truly want and deserve. Working with a life coach is one way to overcome these obstacles.

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