The life coaching process is a relationship between your coach and yourself and is most relevant and beneficial for those people falling into the first three categories above. A fundamental principle behind coaching is that each person knows best what they want. Call it gut-feel, intuition, or a hunch you generally do know what you want or don’t want at some level. It may not be at a conscious level, or worse yet it may be well hidden but at your very core, you do know. An effective life coach is one who is able to help you access your own inner knowledge through powerful questions and techniques used to access this information. In doing so, you establish what you really want in a particular scenario. The coaching techniques and tools employed to do this will vary during your coaching sessions and dependent on what the objectives are. This can range from asking powerful open-ended questions and creative visualization to considering the same subject from a variety of different perspectives.