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Personal Development » Coaching | By Abbas Abedi @ Saturday, 28th October 2006 @ 6:20 PM

When you hear the word "coach", what comes first into your mind? Do you picture a basketball team with a person shouting directions? Do you see a football team with a person pacing back and forth calling out the names of the players? Coaching is no longer reserved to sports. It is a major concept in leadership and management. Coaching is one of the six emotional leadership styles proposed by Daniel Goleman. As a leadership style, coaching is employed when the memb... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By John El-Mokadem @ Saturday, 28th October 2006 @ 4:43 AM

"One who is completely rid of one's very own concept of I am is completely liberated." (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj) So wrote one of the most respected sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj in the modern spiritual classic 'I Am That'. How, you may ask, is this connected with coaching? As a coach who has spent a large amount of time studying the various coaching models and being coached, I have realised that a large amount of what these models are about is the... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Jorj Elprehzleinn @ Sunday, 22nd October 2006 @ 8:09 PM

-If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.- Jesus Christ, the Gospel of St. Thomas Now I am going to talk about something that is the last thing that you would want to talk about. Your dark side (notice I didn't say I would talk about mine! The darkness we have within us is what psychologist Carl Jung calls our shadow. A person may consider these asp... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By John Nowly @ Friday, 20th October 2006 @ 5:11 PM

The following article is an excerpt from the free online course "Learning to Coach Youth Baseball". When you get the job as a new coach, it is important that you meet the league director. You might have already met the league director as he or she may have been the person that hired you. If this is not the case, I recommend you set up a meeting as soon as possible to review several things. Get your notebook handy, as I will give you a list of some questions to ask them.... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Charity Adams @ Wednesday, 18th October 2006 @ 9:57 PM

In the face paced age we live in we can reach more and more prospects faster than ever before using the telephone. 15 years ago when I was in college I had a part time job as a telemarketer. I was very successful at it. Until now I never really focused on why. I had the same script, I was calling on the same people as the other representatives in the room yet I was turning more of my prospects into sales than most people in the room. Today I know I was an excellent student of the comm... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Kee Decemgero @ Tuesday, 17th October 2006 @ 1:49 PM

"When you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, endeavor to live the life that you have imagined, you will meet with success unexpected in common hours." H.D.Thoreau THE EDUCATION OF THE WILL is the secret of personal power, independence of action and absolute freedom to chart our course in life in whatever way we choose. A strong will is more valuable than money, more to be prized than gold, more precious than diamonds. For even if you ge... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Phil de Fontenay @ Saturday, 14th October 2006 @ 8:56 AM

There are few experiences more rewarding than teaching what you know to someone else. The mentor-protege relationship is perhaps the ultimate teaching experience: a one-on-one transfer of accumulated knowledge and wisdom designed to benefit both parties involved. Proteges are a common occurrence in the business world today. Experienced people in every industry often decide to "adopt" a protege-whether the arrangement is through a formal mentoring program, or an informal mutual dec... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By David Johnson @ Friday, 22nd September 2006 @ 4:48 AM

I suppose most of us view watching TV game shows as a form of entertainment. Game shows don't make any demands on us and we enjoy the idea of people like us winning big money. But if we look closer at the game show format, we would see there are valuable lessons on how we can achieve financial and personal success in our life. Most game shows are based on the following three themes: challenge, risk, and reward. An excellent example of this format is the game show Who Wants t... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Mark Webb @ Wednesday, 13th September 2006 @ 9:05 AM

Listening is an essential part for effective communication. Without good listening skills, problems will eventually arise. One common problem is when we constantly seek to prove that our way is the best and only way. We are not interested in differing opinions of others, only in defending our own. We are always right, we do everything competently and we never make mistakes. We are also very lonely because being right is more important than developing an open and honest relationship. ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Mark Webb @ Wednesday, 13th September 2006 @ 9:04 AM

Many of us get caught up living within the exhausting role of being passive. People who tend to be passive in their communication with others often report feeling tense, sad, vulnerable, resentful, unworthy and dependent. In spite of this reported misery, people behave passively in order to avoid responsibility for their thoughts, feelings, and needs. When someone asks you to do something that you do not want to do, what do you do? Do you do it or make an excuse rather than say no? Once you... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Doris Shannon @ Wednesday, 13th September 2006 @ 2:15 AM

Research has validated the top 15 factors needed in our lives to create a successful retirement. Each of us will find some if not all of these factors will need our attention before we can transition into a phase of life that fulfills those long awaited expectations and desires. I have identified over my many years of work as an HR professional, and now as a retirement coach, there is one ALL-IMPORTANT factor you must address, either before or at least early in our retirement, to a... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Doris Shannon @ Saturday, 2nd September 2006 @ 2:59 PM

Readiness for retirement occurs on multiple levels over years. Financial planning, while the foundation of a comfortable retirement cannot assure the fulfilling meaningful and satisfying retirement individuals work so hard to achieve. When individuals begin a financial plan for retirement, typically late 30s early 40s, it is not too early to begin evaluating your life-work. There are self-discovery tools that can offer clarity of the work that best fits who you are not just what you can d... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Karen Singer @ Thursday, 31st August 2006 @ 2:04 AM

Congratulations! You have booked your first home party, first craft fair or open house. Now what do you do? I hope your first answer was to relax and celebrate. Most people I have asked this question to answered with one word, WORRY! Worry if they had enough products, worry if their prices were okay, and worry if they were going to make sales, etc. Yes, this is a natural instinct and I have had these thoughts myself with my first home party. Could you guess the outco... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Monday, 28th August 2006 @ 3:36 PM

Children naturally look for role models to shape their attitudes and behaviors. As parents, it is important for us to make sure that they have plenty of positive responsibility models. There is a lot of enough negative surrounding our children and much of the adult world can be negative, apathetic or mediocre. If we do not actively focus on being positive person, then other can dampen our children natural enthusiasm and optimism. The first thing to remember about positive role mode... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Monday, 28th August 2006 @ 1:53 PM

To grow spiritually in a world defined by power, money, and influence is a Herculean task. Modern conveniences such as electronic equipments, gadgets, and tools as well as entertainment through television, magazines, and the web have predisposed us to confine our attention mostly to physical needs and wants. As a result, our concepts of self worth and self meaning are muddled. How can we strike a balance between the material and spiritual aspects of our lives? To grow spiritually is to l... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Sunday, 27th August 2006 @ 6:09 PM

Every parent hopes their family will build a close and loving relationship. Every parent hopes when their children are grown that they will have many fond memories of their childhood. But how do families create those bonds and memories? By creating rituals. It is so hard in today fast paced, overscheduled world to find time to spend together as a family. It is too easy when a gap appears in the family schedule to simply collapse in front of the television and meditate for the evening. It ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Sunday, 27th August 2006 @ 6:08 PM

Relationships of all kinds are often perceived as very delicate things especially with the parents that require extra effort to maintain. However, a relationship can also be something that can provide security and can also be long lasting despite many trials. Building effective and lasting relationships with parents is a necessity for several reasons. For example in a family, the well being of the family members depends on how efficient and effective that members works. An ineffect... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Francis Lua @ Sunday, 27th August 2006 @ 5:41 PM

There are few things when interacting with human we need to focus on. The most important things that we need in order to behave as a human are being what we are. To do this we need to know: The Powers of a Positive Attitude I am going to ask you to something very weird right now. First of all, I want you to listen to your thoughts. Now tell me what thoughts fill your head? Would you label them as positive or negative. Now let say you are walking down the street with these thoug... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Ann Stewart @ Saturday, 5th August 2006 @ 10:03 PM

Do you know how to receive abundance? The Bible teaches a sure-fire way to get more than you need. According to Luke 6: 36: "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." That is such a great promise. You do not need an in-depth Bible study to understand this verse. It clearly underlines the certainty of gettin... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By stan lewis @ Saturday, 5th August 2006 @ 6:02 PM

I remember being a midshipman in college during the fall of 1987. It was homecoming and I thought that it would be fun to be on the homecoming court in my last year of college. I remember expressing this to a civilian staff member of the Navy ROTC staff. He told me to forget about trying. That people like me could never be part of the homecoming court at such a major university. What he said rocked me to my core. I could have let this have a negative impact on me, but I ran for hom... more...