"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves" Thomas Edison

My purpose in becoming a coach was to help my clients to do just that! Astound themselves. As often as possible.

There is a tendency for days, weeks, years to pass us by without things changing very much. Without us doing much different. With life rolling along in the same way. We hear the odd phrase telling us to live every day as if it were our last. But do we? Maybe for a couple of days and then it passes. There is a tendency for people to be carried along by the current. Head down, pretty happy, pretty ok.

How often do we stop? Pause? Look up and see where we are? Ask ourselves - is this where I want to be? Where do I want to be?

This is where I found myself a few years back. Head down, pretty happy, pretty ok. But actually pretty kidding myself. I'd slipped into 'existing' instead of living. There was no real purpose to what I was doing. Of course, I didn't know about life coaching then. But something I did know was this: If I always did what I'd always done, I'd always get what I'd always got.

Having spent some time working out what it was that I wanted to get, I found myself a few years on a lot happier - almost fulfilled, but not quite. And then I came across life coaching.

I'd always had this belief that everybody has massive potential to be something and do something great. I was always telling my friends this and spurring them on to better things. And here was a profession called coaching that was all about doing just that!

I enrolled on a year long training programme covering coaching and NLP theory as well as lots of practical coaching; developing new skills as a coach and building on my natural abilities. What I found was this: give somebody the space to get really clear about what they want, understand why they want it and choose clear goals; build their awareness, confidence and self belief; support and encourage them every step and promote commitment to take action and they do amazing things. They astound themselves and you.

I set up Breakthrough Coaching to help more people to do more. Life is all about movement, growth and change. It's natural to get to where we want to go and then look up and see where we want to go next. I call it our 'next level'.

Your next level is unique to you. It is different from anybody else's because it's yours. My personal mission and that of Breakthrough Coaching is to help you to understand what your next level is and support you to climb up and take it.

Lisa Ravenscroft
The Breakthrough Coach