Results? Says David, “After several years of challenges, client has tripled his income, maintained his real estate business, and, if you ask his wife and daughter, he’s a great husband and father.”

David says he doesn’t take credit for success, that client “achieved it through hard work, determination and willingness to play a bigger game.”

How many coaches are there? 20,000 globally, says International Coach Federation, with about 75% of them in US. There are several coaching schools and training institutions, and some universities, including Georgetown and George Mason, offer coaching courses.

Some coaches are also teachers, offering distance learning and email courses, and many have written ebooks.

“I just wanted to say thanks for course,” wrote Cam Howey, Supervising Metallurgist, Stelco, Canada, who took The EQ Foundation Course©.

“We’re currently in a major push to lower costs and restore profitability. Your course has been and will be a great help to me. It’s taught me new ways of thinking, exposed me to art and music I’d never have seen otherwise, and it’s reinforced what I’ve been taught by others, optimism, listening, awareness of body language and self-awareness. Re-reading course last night reinforces my belief in tremendous potential in all people, and our responsibility as managers to nurture and help people develop to their full potential. One of kickers is you can’t take your staff any higher than you are.”

Colleen Sibeijn, UK, who also took course wrote: “I did [the EQ] course last year and have become so much more in tune with my emotions and of those around me. I am more in control of them and my family and friends have noticed. …[Y]ou have inspired me to be best person I can be."

“Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren’t sure how to do it? Here’s how to jump start your new life today … Hire a coach,” says Modern Maturity magazine.

Other coaches teach by teleclass.

“I just finished taking your teleclass on How to Succeed in Speaking Business...it was an Exhilarating Epiphany! Charged! Challenged and Changed...I will never be same! Thanks loads!" wrote Lorraine LeMon, Motivational Speaker, to her coach, Sandra Shrift, http://www.schrift.com/index.htm , Executive Speech Coach.

There will soon be a coach for everything, an exciting possibility. Why go it alone? Here are just a few who specialize in areas that can benefit clients:

·Anne Dibala, M. D., addictionologist, TheRecoveryCoach, http://www.responsiblerecovery.com .

·Talasteena Miller, Ed. D., The Breast Cancer Coach, http://www.breastcancercoach.com .

·Nancy Fenn, TheIntrovertzCoach, http://www.theintrovertzcoach.com .

·Judi Craig, Ph.D., ( www.coachsquared.com ), Executive, Business, Sales and Career coach.

·Jim Gillespie, Ph.D., http://www.realestatesalescoach.com , Real Estate Coach

·Marshall O’Brien, http://www.byregion.net/profiles heinhousegourmet.html , Cooking Coach.

·Debra Phillips, http://www.griefrelief.com/ , Grief Coach.

·Marianne Craig, http://www.todayscoach.com/TC2-4hiv.html , HIV Coach.

·William Arruda, http://www.reachcc.com/reachdotcom.nsf/ , Personal Branding Coach.

Don’t see niche there you’re looking for? Maybe you could be that coach. Coaches have a conglomeration of education, credentials, academic training, and actual experience surviving and thriving in fields they coach that qualify them to do what they do.

Be glad. Be very glad.

We love to see people making dramatic career changes in order to explore a newly discovered talent. It helps us believe that we have potential to do something that will astound us.

Well, believe it. You are one locking yourself into that mental image of yourself as a left-brain or right- brain person. The rest of us believe in your limitless talents, so why don't you?

My hero, Leonardo Da Vinci, was fortunate that nobody pegged him early on as an accountant (he planned to become one, but alas, as an illegitimate child, he was not considered suitable for that career). It's lucky for all of us that he ended up dabbling--in art, engineering, music, geology, and everything else he encountered. He was free to dive into many subjects because he never labeled himself as a certain type.

Keep in mind that thoughts become things. Whatever you tell yourself you can't do, you won't be able to do--either because you have convinced yourself you have no skill or because you never give yourself opportunity to try. You’ve put deadbolts on your own doors!

Go seamless. Erase that line between left and right. Visualize wholeness and all that it implies. Stop with labels, and start with lessons, rekindled interests, tentative new directions.

Explore those rooms in your mind, and you'll be on your way to becoming fully integrated human you were born to be.

Now if only I could find that extra room in my house.