The Art of Coaching

Most managers don’t coach. They work hard, but not at coaching. As a result of not coaching, managers wind up doing a lot of the “doing.” When they do coach, rather than develop people, they usually are evaluating them.

Top Ten Reasons To Work with a Life Coach for Your Personal Development

Curious about why someone would hire a life coach? Wondering if coaching is worth looking into for yourself? Here are a few reasons to consider looking further.

The Four Secrets To Discovering Your Coaching Niche

Do you know the one thing that stops most coaches from being dramatically successful? Do you know what prevents coaches from charging the rates they should command? Do you suffer from the key problem that affects 68% of all coaches? Read on to discover the four secrets to discovering your coaching niche – and making your practice dramatically more successful!

Diving Into the Darkness Within

This morning my husband and I spent about an hour and a half filling in a budget for ourselves. We've never really done that before. Not both of us. Not together. Thanks to the inspiration of the financial guru, Dave Ramsey, we're motivated to get ourselves out of the usual cycle of spend-spend-spend and run-run-run from debt. I left my cushy IT job of ten years at the end of March this year so that I could focus on a career as a Professional Life Coach. It's a very humbling experience to step from the steady paycheck into the unknown and to trust that our needs will be cared for and cared for well.

Tips On Avoiding Procrastination

Tips on avoiding procrastination.

Listening, the Key to Mentoring

Mentoring is the process by which a Mentor assists a person or organization to attain their respective potential; it includes listening without judgment, suggesting alternatives, offering feedback and teaching concepts and toolsMentoring is all about hope, encouragement and appreciation for the person and the organization.

Are you in a 9 to 5 Prison?

With a grim realisation I realised that FEAR troubled this anxious person's life. He had been trapped in the 9 to 5 routine existence for so long that he was absorbed by it. Unless he wanted to at least try that is exactly where he would remain for the rest of his days. In a 9 to 5 prison with excuses keeping him captive and his regrets playing upon troubling his mind. The easiest way to combat fear is by not using excuses. Instead, you need to look for positive approaches to accomplish what you want in life.

What is Coaching and is It for Me?

It's not psychotherapy, its not counseling, it's not advice, so what is it? Coaching is a powerful technique which is part self-empowerment, part self-discovery, lots of action (from you), and lots of questions (from the coach). If you're tired of trying to analyze yourself out of this mess, read on!

A Quick Fix - Part Four

A conclusion to Parts 1, 2, and 3. How good does it feel when no one can upset you? Everything that happens and everything that you do is controlled by your thoughts. The power has no concept of big and small, so ask big. The only thing that can stop you being happy and wealthy, is you.

Do You Have an Hour to Become the Person You Want to Be?

Here is a guide that will show you how to asses your hidden talents and set you on the path to purposeful living in less than an hour!

Life Coach

Life coaching is a self-actualization program used by a number of psychologists to assist clients with transitions in their personal life. The technique used in assisting clients involves mentoring, value assessment, behavior modeling, and goal setting.

The Coaching Practice Trap

This article looks at the potential trap of creating a job in a coaching practice rather than building a coaching business that frees up your time.

Are You Using Your Power?

YOU HAVE AN EXTRAORDINARY POWER; ARE YOU USING IT? YOU ARE AN EXTRAORDINARY BEING; ARE YOU BEING YOU? Everything begins with a choice and a decision. Everything is a choice, and if you choose consciously you become the person you want to be and create the life you desire. And when you choose, and commit to your choices with all your strength, you will achieve what you want. Whatever the difficulties you have experienced in your life, whatever the difficulties you are experiencing at the moment, you can choose.

Coaching and Mentoring Efficiency

Are you a mentor or a coach and would like to get more out of your activities? If so perhaps you should consider when someone asks you a question to syndicate the answer and therefore you have it available or can make it available to the world as well. This way instead of helping one person with a specific question, you can help 100s with the same question. And if you were to write it up in an article and place it online you could indeed make it searchable to the World using a quality online article submission website.

Why Be An NLP Coach?

Personal and business coaching has become a significant and respectable business over the last few years. Look around and you will find that the most successful people you know have coaches. Celebrities and sports figures have personal coaches in addition to whatever organized coaching their profession provides.