What a life advisory is
What is alife advisory?
A life advisory is a firm that takes responsibility for how a person’s whole life is working, in the way a private wealth advisor takes responsibility for their money. It studies how you live and work, brings together the experts your situation calls for, and stays with you while the changes hold.
Becoming is a life advisory. We built it for accomplished people whose lives have grown too interconnected to manage one expert at a time.
Why the category exists
Advice follows complexity.
Money shows the pattern. When your finances are simple you manage them yourself. When they grow complex you hire a professional, and past a certain point you have a team with one advisor accountable for all of it. A life follows the same progression, and most accomplished people reach the third point long before anyone offers them the third kind of help.
- On your own
- Books, apps and good habits. Enough while the decisions are separate and the consequences are yours alone.
- One professional
- A doctor, a therapist, a trainer or a coach. Each is good at one piece, and none of them sees what the others are doing.
- A team and one advisor
- Experts chosen for your situation, working to one plan, with one person accountable for how it adds up. This is a life advisory.
How it differs
What a life advisory is not.
People ask the same questions when they first hear the term.
- Life coaching
- A financial advisor must act in your interest and can choose from the whole market. A salesperson sells the house product, and a coach sells their own method. A life advisory works like the advisor. Becoming has no method of its own, so the only question about any expert is whether they are right for you.
- Therapy
- Therapy treats a problem and makes you the patient. A life advisory works with people who are not broken, whose lives already work, and asks what would make them work better.
- One practitioner
- A doctor, a therapist and a coach each work on their own piece of your life. Your advisor and your team work on the whole of it, to one plan.
- A program for everyone
- A framework designed for everyone is precise for no one. A life advisory starts with a diagnosis of you, and everything after it follows from what that diagnosis found.
How Becoming practices it
Three stages, one advisor.
- 01
The Diagnostic
A team of experts studies how you live and work, and shows you what you cannot see on your own.
- 02
The Immersive
Five days away with a curated group of peers, led by experts, to reset and make room for a better way to live and work.
- 03
The Advisory
Your advisor and your team stay with you, and we measure every ninety days.
Questions
What people ask about a life advisory.
What is a life advisory?
A life advisory is a firm that takes responsibility for how a person’s whole life is working. It studies how you live and work, assembles the experts your situation needs, and stays with you while the changes become the way you live. One advisor is accountable for all of it, as a private wealth advisor is for a client’s money.
What does a life advisor do?
A life advisor knows your findings, your plan and your circumstances, and runs your team of experts so that you don’t have to. At Becoming the title is Private Client Advisor. You meet every month, and between meetings you can reach your advisor whenever something comes up.
How is a life advisor different from a life coach?
A coach teaches their own method and works on the part of your life that method reaches. A life advisor has no method to sell. They decide which experts your situation calls for, hold them to one plan, and answer for the result.
Who is a life advisory for?
Accomplished people whose lives have become too interconnected to manage one expert at a time. Many are in the second half of a demanding career, or at an exit, a succession or a change of chapter, and want to decide what the next part of their life is for. They are not looking to be fixed.
What should a founder do after selling a company?
An exit removes the structure that organized most of a founder’s decisions for years, and what replaces it is rarely planned with the care the sale received. A life advisory treats that change the way a wealth advisor treats a liquidity event. It starts with a diagnosis of how you live now and builds a plan for the life you choose next.
How does Becoming work?
Becoming works in three stages with one advisor throughout. The Diagnostic studies how you live and work across three domains, Capacity, Orientation and Activation. The Immersive is five days away with a small group of peers, built on what the Diagnostic found. The Advisory keeps your advisor and your team with you, and we measure what has changed every ninety days.
How do I start?
Every engagement begins with a free first conversation, which is the first step of the Diagnostic. You can request one from any page, or take the Profile first to see where your own constraint lies.
Start becoming
Your advisory begins with the Diagnostic.
A private review of how your system currently operates, by multiple domain experts, delivered by a private advisor.
Or see your ProfileMultiple Experts and a Private Advisor