What Is Life Coaching?Written by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW
Publishing Guidelines: You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as resource box is included with a live link to my site. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. ***********************************************************Title: WHAT IS LIFE COACHING? Author: Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Email: mailto:editor@overcoming-depression.com copyright: by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Web Address: http://www.Overcoming-Depression.com Word Count: 431 Category: Success WHAT IS LIFE COACHING? A coach guides you in identifying core life desires, uncovering authentic talents and in applying your unique qualities in pursuit of your goals. Stephen Covey gives a nice sense of outcome of coaching when he says, "How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and, keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and do what really matters most." Today, life is more full and fast-paced than ever before. One might assume that a sense of personal fulfillment would accompany this process. Sadly, reverse is true for great numbers of individuals today. Life is too hectic. A sense of emptiness, lack of direction, confusion and joyless living permeate many lives, perhaps even yours. The coaching profession has been called into creation by these and similar needs amongst you. It's important to realize that you were born into this world whole, with unique gifts. Over course of time you unlearned some of your golden qualities, put them on shelf, sacrificing them towards some perceived good. You became lost to yourself. Your once vivid and detailed dreams became fuzzy, distant and finally, forgotten.
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Publishing Guidelines: You have permission to publish this article electronically or in print, free of charge, as long as resource box is included with a live link to my site. A courtesy copy of your publication would be appreciated. ***********************************************************Title: IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS! Author: Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Email: mailto:editor@overcoming-depression.com copyright: by Dave Turo-Shields, ACSW, LCSW Web Address: http://www.Overcoming-Depression.com Word Count: 614 Category: Success IT'S THE THOUGHT THAT COUNTS! Ever have an insight or gain knowledge that both excites and scares you at same time? I am a fact guy. Use decent scientific method, and prove it to me, and you've got my attention. Well, something got my attention this week. We've believed in therapy field for years now how powerfully impactful thoughts are on quality of your daily life. In last year I've gone as far as to publicly say that you manifest everything in your life through your conscious and unconscious thoughts. The good and bad. In doing so, I've put myself out on a limb, without my usual propensity for solid evidence to prove what I was saying to be correct. It "felt" correct so I'd begun believing and teaching this principle - YOUR THOUGHTS BECOME THINGS! We've all been superstitious enough, or around those who are, who've said, "Watch out what you ask for, you just may get it." As it turns out there's a whole lot more truth in this than we ever knew. What's scary is I'm guessing that over 95% or more of you really have no idea "what" you're asking for! What are you asking for in your daily random thought patterns? Let's pretend you have one thought every 15 seconds and you sleep 8 hours each night. That equates to 240 thoughts per minute, 14,400 thoughts per hour and 230,000 thoughts per day! I'm reminded of overdone credit card commercial statement, "What's in your wallet?" If we could spin this for purpose of this article it would be, "What's in your mind?" What percentage of 230,000 thoughts are you consciously aware of? How many are dreadful thoughts? How many are hopeless thoughts? How many have to do with what you'll never achieve? How many are grateful thoughts? How many are loving thoughts? How many are inspiring, future oriented thoughts?
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