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Conscious entrepreneurs exhibit vitality, productivity, and strategic focus.

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Personal Coach

As a personal coach, I frequently encounter the inquiry: 'What constitutes a coach, and what specific services do you provide?' I will elucidate this here, detailing the benefits for your personal development or that of others. Numerous clients have preceded you, achieving greater success, enhanced tranquility, increased contentment, improved balance, stronger relationships, or greater life freedom through judicious decision-making.

What is Coaching?

Coaching is synonymous with all forms of guidance pertaining to personal development. A coach serves as a facilitator who assists you in achieving specific objectives. These objectives are designed to bring structure and order to your life.

What is Personal Coaching?

As a personal coach, I specialize in assisting individuals within the business sector, including entrepreneurs and executives, who are grappling with personal challenges. These issues frequently manifest as impediments in both their private lives and professional spheres.

The core of this process addresses three fundamental existential questions: Who am I? What are my inherent capabilities? And what are my authentic aspirations? My methodology involves a holistic assessment of your life, considering your identity as an individual within both your professional capacity as an entrepreneur and your personal domain. Consequently, the primary aim of coaching is to elevate overall life satisfaction across all facets. This encompasses addressing profound challenges like burnout, as well as providing strategic direction when clarity is required.

At its core, personal coaching focuses on:

  • Reducing absenteeism, preventing burnout, and facilitating burnout recovery.
  • Conflict resolution and enhancing interpersonal communication.
  • Fostering increased self-confidence and assertiveness.
  • Developing more effective time management, strategic prioritization, and implementing enhanced structural organization.

5 Compelling Reasons to Engage a Personal Coach

  • A personal coach offers dedicated, individualized attention. A coach facilitates the clarification of your authentic life aspirations, guiding you to identify a profound mission in life and articulate concrete objectives.
  • As a personal coach, I maintain an impartial stance, offering inspiration to facilitate the realization of your objectives. My role is not to provide prescriptive advice, but to empower you to discern that profound contentment arises from independently making conscious choices.
  • A coach establishes a secure and clearly delineated environment, enabling you to fully concentrate and dedicate your efforts to your personal objectives. We delve into the underlying causes of your challenges. Coaching sessions are exclusively centered on your individual life aspirations, distinct from the expectations or desires of others.
  • A coach functions as a trusted confidant, offering genuine, attentive listening and undivided focus. Coaching provides a vital sounding board, allowing you to articulate all your aspirations, uncertainties, and apprehensions in a non-judgmental space, ensuring these disclosures are not leveraged against you at an inconvenient juncture.
  • A coach rigorously holds you accountable to your self-imposed commitments. Coaching is instrumental in eliminating the possibility of fabricating excuses that impede the realization of your aspirations.

Engaging a personal business coach represents a strategic investment in your personal development and the future, benefiting both yourself and those around you.

Who is Eelco?

Business Acquisition Advisor

My core impetus is to empower individuals to fulfill their inherent potential, thereby enabling you to execute your essential responsibilities. This commitment has been intrinsic to my professional ethos for as long as I can recall, stemming from my own extensive experiences navigating both significant triumphs and profound challenges, across personal and professional spheres.

Over two decades ago, I commenced my career in the due diligence practice at Deloitte, subsequently serving as a Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor at KPMG Corporate Finance. Since 2000, I have operated as an independent entrepreneur: following a trajectory that included a tenure as a commodity broker in London and a period in Mexico, since 2004, I have served as a professional Business Coach for entrepreneurs and executives committed to maximizing their potential.

For entrepreneurs and executives, the demarcation between professional and personal life is often indistinct. As an entrepreneur, husband, and father, I possess firsthand understanding of this dynamic. Consequently, I offer a platform for discourse on both business challenges and pertinent personal affairs. This integrated approach reflects my intrinsic identity: serving as a sounding board, a strategic advisor, and a trusted confidant, all in one capacity.

Through over a thousand engagements, I have coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and executives, enabling them to achieve the results you likely aspire to.

In addition to my role as a Business Coach, I have over two decades of experience guiding entrepreneurs as a Business Acquisition Advisor through the divestment process of their companies.

I am a certified NLP Practitioner and a member of both the Dutch Association of Professional Coaches (NOBCO) and the International Coach Federation (ICF).

Business Acquisition Advisor
Therefore, we encourage you to establish contact.
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Satisfied Entrepreneurs and Executives on My Coaching

“Eelco is the individual who empowers you to discover your unique path amidst a world of challenges, temptations, and deceptions. He is a coach with a robust business background who also assists you on a personal level in discerning authenticity from illusion. I unequivocally recommend him to all. He offers a 100% clarity guarantee.”

Jan-Hein Schouten
Founder and CEO, Digital United

“When confronted with pivotal life decisions, engaging Eelco as a Business Coach proves exceptionally beneficial. Through a series of seemingly straightforward yet incisive questions, he facilitates the profound realization of your choices' inherent value.”

Hugo Meijs
Entrepreneur and Actor

“As a Business Coach, Eelco adeptly dismantles impediments without resorting to unnecessary embellishment or ambiguity. His approach is characterized by the strategic application of pertinent questions within an appropriate style and context. I highly recommend him to anyone poised to advance to their next professional stage.”

Evert J. Oosterhuis
Entrepreneur

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Book for MEN

Whether you are 25 or 45, an employee or an entrepreneur, every man can benefit from enhanced decisiveness, adventure, and enjoyment in his life. If you are committed to making a significant impact and refuse to succumb to procrastination, monotony, and compromise, then this book is for you.

‘Book for MEN is groundbreaking.’
– Eugene Roorda of BNR Nieuwsradio on the bestseller Book for MEN

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The Rules of the Game

Life is simple, yet not easy. It can be perceived as a board game. The more proficient you are with its rules, the more effectively you can focus on substantive matters. The sole path to both success and happiness lies in Conscious Awareness.

‘Smit adeptly bridges the gap between spirituality and the corporate world.’
– Het Financieele Dagblad on The Rules of the Game

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Methodology: Insight Action Harvest ©

My approach is consistently personalized and bespoke, eschewing standardized step-by-step plans or rigid methodologies. The caliber of communication with oneself and with others dictates the extent of success and contentment in one's life, as no individual exists in isolation. Consequently, my approach is characterized by depth and an integrated perspective on life and business operations, free from superficial tactics or abstract theorizing.

The solution for you is straightforward, yet far from facile: to cultivate a genuinely more conscious life by establishing clear, meaningful objectives and making authentic choices.

In a concise video interview with Peter Gielissen, I provide further elucidation on my methodology Insight Action Harvest ©.

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Even the sharpest blade cannot sharpen itself.

Successful entrepreneurs engage a coach because they seek to achieve tangible and sustainable results expeditiously.

What is your strategic choice?

Achieving Differentiation and Success with a Coach

1. Establish Goals That Resonate and Motivate You
A personal coach provides expert guidance in clarifying, formulating, and strategically outlining your objectives, ensuring a profound alignment with your intrinsic personal values.

2. You prioritize and make authentic choices
A coach provides insights and tools to facilitate prioritization and decision-making, thereby fostering greater success in both your professional and personal life.

3. You possess focus and equilibrium
As a coach, serving as a mirror, sounding board, and trusted advisor, I guide you in taking targeted action to realize your strategic objectives.

Eelco Smit Business Coach
BUSINESS COACH

Burying your head in the sand and continuing to toil in isolation.

1. You are not operating within your natural flow
You feel stagnant and are not fully realizing your potential, despite a strong desire to live authentically and in alignment with your core values.

2. You are isolated and caught in a cycle of stagnation
You are surrounded by sycophants. You lack a strategic sparring partner who understands your specific context, provides objective reflection, and facilitates decisive decision-making.

3. You are experiencing disequilibrium
You lack strategic focus, suffer from sleep deprivation, and often feel restless, despite recognizing that personal well-being and professional success are intrinsically linked.

Awaken Each Morning to Pursue Your Passions

My commitment is to empower you to cultivate a more fulfilling, purposeful, and successful life. Should this objective not be met, the entirety of the coaching session will be complimentary. This is my unwavering pledge.

Therefore, we encourage you to establish contact.
Therefore, we encourage you to establish contact.
Entirely without obligation and strictly confidential

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Do you have a query? Your question, along with its answer, may be addressed in the section below.

What Defines a Personal Coach?

As a Personal Coach, I specialize in assisting entrepreneurs and executives in navigating personal challenges. These issues often culminate in significant impediments within both their private lives and professional entrepreneurial trajectories.

Is Personal Coaching the Right Fit for Me?

If professional success does not translate into personal fulfillment, and your private life lacks equilibrium, Personal Coaching is particularly suitable. This applies if you are encountering significant impediments in both these areas and possess the resolve to make challenging, transformative decisions. 

What are the Tangible Benefits of Personal Coaching?

Personal Coaching is designed to yield increased happiness, greater freedom, and sustained success. You achieve optimal performance and fulfillment when operating from a state of profound equilibrium. The exploration of the three fundamental life questions—'Who am I?', 'What are my inherent capabilities?', and 'What do I truly desire?'—provides transformative insights that profoundly shape the trajectory of your entire existence. 

What is the Duration of a Personal Coaching Engagement?

The duration of a Personal Coaching engagement is intrinsically linked to your specific personal objectives. I invite you to schedule a consultation, where I commit to assisting you in realizing enhanced profitability, profound fulfillment, heightened satisfaction, and sustained success. This is my unwavering commitment.

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    Argonautenstraat 12-2hg
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    BUSINESS COACH AMSTERDAM

    Call +31 (0)20 676 81 87
    Email eelco@eelcosmit.nl

    Argonautenstraat 12-2hg
    1076 KN  AMSTERDAM

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