Beyond the Blue Horizon

At 50 Sybil Primrose literally stumbled into the world of personal development when she was looking for a way to stop smoking.

Today, more than 20 years later not only has Sybil successfully kicked the habit she has a new lease on life and is about to launch an exciting career as a personal coach.

The former TAFE lecturer is a classic example that life is what you make it and while so many others her age are preoccupied with sickness and death, Sybil refuses to be placed into society's limiting moulds.

"I may be retired but really I'm just re-tyred and at an exciting phase of my life," she said.

But Sybil's awakening didn't happen overnight and initially she had never heard of personal development or life coaching.

It came at a time when a close relationship had suddenly ended and her professional life was erratic.

"Up until about 20 years ago I had taken the world for granted and thought it was the way it was and I had to accept that as an individual I was powerless to change it.

"When I first heard of personal development it was like someone was speaking a foreign language," she explained.

But she soon began to meditate, travel and read books about energy and how it controlled emotional and physical pain.

"It was really an exciting time for me it opened up new horizons and like the famous forties song, it has taken me 'Beyond The Blue Horizon'.

"For so long I had felt the victim and I was now breaking free from the boundaries I had created around myself," explained Sybil.

As a teacher Sybil said she had always wanted to share her ideas and knowledge with others.

"Now my idea of what is valuable and worthwhile has widened I want to help others find their inner joy and purpose," said Sybil, who believes coaching will give her this opportunity.

When a friend introduced Sybil to the Life Coaching Academy (LCA) earlier this year she soon realised it would become her new vocation.

"What really clinched it for me was meeting the director of coaching for the LCA, Marian Durrands and hearing her say 'when you know you know, you know."

Sybil said she 'did know' and coaching soon became her passion.

"I have discovered it's one of the greatest ways to learn and help others... basically I think it's the best thing since sliced bread...you can use it all the time and when you help someone else it's helping yourself as well," she laughed.

As Sybil explained, personal and business coaches help people look at all the options and then make their own choices.

"It's about their life but you can help them expand their vision so they can understand that what they put out comes back.

"I was brought up on the do, have, be approach and now understand it's the be, have then do mentality that really works," said Sybil.

Sybil, who participated in the LCA's three-month course, will specialise in personal growth, health and relationship coaching.

A life coach is a trained practitioner who literally 'coaches' a client into attaining their personal or professional goals.

Coaching is about developing goals, values and strategies that allow for immediate and dramatic change in performance and communication.

It's entirely forward-thinking, working from a vision or set of objectives the client wants to achieve unlike therapy and counseling, said Sybil.

Coaching sessions are usually about forty-five minutes to an hour and conducted weekly or fortnightly via the telephone.

"Coaching is something everyone can benefit from, we all have our inner wisdom but for many of us it's all boxed up.

"But we do have the power to change our lives and create the lifestyle we want."

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