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Should You Be Satisfied With What You’ve Got and Not Desire More Success?

Very often in my Coaching Practice people come up to me and ask if it is alright for them to want more than what they really have? Should they not be satisfied with their lives? How much is enough success? And the reason for these questions is that many of us have grown up with the idea that we should be satisfied with whatever we have got and not ask for more.

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Life Coaching for Artists

Pursuing a career in the arts has always been a difficult road. The terms “starving artist ” have been applied to the artists lifestyle for hundreds of years. We are all too familiar with the romanticized version of the struggling artist through literature and know about the horror of the unrealized impoverished genius. Simply put artists not often known for receiving big paychecks at the end of the day.

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Life Coaching Through Colour

Colour Therapy is based on the principle that each colour has a unique vibrational pattern that can be used to bring balance into various areas of your intellectual, physical, and spiritual life.

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Powerful Negotiation

Negotiation is one of those aspects of life we face on a daily basis. It is essential that a person have powerful negotiation skills, as everything in life requires it. Through great negotiation techniques, you can be very successful in your work, as well as your personal life.

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4 Steps to Fulfillment

These days life coaches are a dime a dozen. Simply googling the term turns up hundreds of thousands of hits. How does one stand out from the pack? If you’re just starting out as a one, you’re probably having difficulty in finding clients. You’re maybe asking yourself if this is truly the right path you should be on.

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Finding Your Own Core Values

I have heard it said a number of times throughout my professional career CORE VALUES and to be honest, it sounds good. But really? What does it mean? How does one discover their Core Values and frankly WHY? What does it have to do with anything? Well, the truth is, maybe it isn’t important to you right now, but research shows that when your actions are inline with your Values, your feelings of success sky rocket! Many people believe, if you don’t know your core values, you become stuck and it is impossible to truly move forward. That’s a good enough reason for me! So if your ready? Lets get to it!

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Benefits of Professional Coaching

Once we have understanding of what professional coaching is, it is important to evaluate the benefits when figuring out if it is the right fit. It is clear that we can get by without coaching. So what are the benefits if we add coaching to our current approach?

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How To Manage Behavior, Not Person – Get a Peripheral Sight

When Michael Grinder speaks, he is silent. When he gives a message, he looks away and when he communicates the participants understands.

There are cats and dogs. In the human world. Dog People, who love routines and want everyone to enjoy and get along. Cat people, who loves chaos and are attracted to danger. How can we communicate with each other, dogs and cats?

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FAQs About Life Coaching

What does the term life coach mean?

This is coaching undertaken professionally by an individual who possess vast experience and qualifications in a specific field for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals who lack such experience and knowledge. There are usually particular goals, often quantitative goals, associated with any coaching activity and it can be used to develop innate talent and skills to enhance ones quality of life and professional experience.

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Life Coach Advice: How To Get Life Coaching For Free

Just like you don’t get motivated to fix the hole in your roof on the sunny days and then can’t do it because the roof is too slippery on the rainy days, you don’t think about getting life coach advice until your life becomes something you’re not happy with. Then you often don’t have the money to get life coaching. Here’s how you can get coaching help for free.

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Mind Reading – The Negative Voices in My Head

“I’m always worrying afterward if I’ve said the wrong thing. It haunts my mind on the way home. My worry voice niggles away telling me how I could have phrased it better, or that I should have kept quiet. May be other person might be upset about what I’ve said?” All this worry is for no reason because the other person is always okay afterward and I realize that I just invented it all in my own head!” – Jenny, Manager and Coaching Client.

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A Cure for Insanity

Einstein nailed it when he defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Yet, how often do we wish aspects of our lives would change even though we’re doing the same things (behaviors/actions) we always have!

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Being Self-Directed

Coaching is a self-directed process. When I think about being self-directed, I have an image of a person driving a car. The driver knows where he starts and where he wants to end up. Even if he had no predetermined destination, he would still be responsible for each turn he took, the maintenance of the car, and deciding what to do in the case of unexpected accidents. There is no “I wasn’t driving this car” excuse when you are the driver.

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Four Steps on How to Set Goals

We all know that setting goals is the most important step to achieving success, no matter how large or small those successes may be. Whether we want to lose 20 pounds, save enough money for retirement, or get a promotion, goal setting is the first and most fundamental step to take on our journey. But often people are left wondering exactly how to set goals.

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Oh For a Life Coach

A coach, a coach, oh for a coach! Without fail we are constantly being coached, whether we like it or not! You may recognize as a coach, that person who sits beside you at the dinner table, or perhaps it is a good friend with whom you share your innermost dreams, nevertheless, if you are among people, you will find many willing coaches.

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Are You Part of The Problem or Part of the Solution?

Are you hoarding your gifts and talents or are you sharing them with the world? Have you been designed to be a world changer, but you are not committed to your calling? Are you one who is part of the problem or part of the solution?

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Coaching Tip “10” To Empower the Vision in You Coaching Series

Welcome back to “Empower The Vision In You” coaching series of articles. This is #10 in a series of 20 articles. Each one builds upon the one before it. My purpose in presenting these articles is to take you step by step in the process of creating your life from the inside out moving you from where you are to where you want to be-in addition, I include some words of wisdom that will help you along the way.

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Stuck In a Rut? Don’t Let The Storm Take The Wind Out of Your Sails!

Has your ship taken a battering from the storm of life? We have all taken a battering from the storms of life at one time or another.

Some of you will have navigated the stormy waters and will have found safe harbour and found yourself virtually unscathed throughout the whole journey.

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Selecting the Right Coaching School

Are you thinking about becoming a coach? Do you have a coaching school in mind? Have you decided on a specialty? If you have decided to become a coach, regardless of your specialty, selecting the right school is really important. Not all coaching schools are created equal. One size does not fit all. And, surprisingly, price does not necessarily indicate the best coaching education. Nor does the use of technology result in the best education. What then should a prospective coach be looking for with regard to professional schools?

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Casual Clothing Maintenance for Guys

Unless you are a hard core urbanite, and take everything from your socks to your suits to the place down the street, or you have a loving wife who lives to serve you (like I was!) you probably have to do some domestic clothing maintenance on your own. I’m sure you have long since figured out how to throw in a load of laundry or have your shirts “done”, but today I’m “pressing” for a higher standard to prolong the life of the good “goods” you have invested in.

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