Essays
Why Choosing a Life Purpose is Important If You Want To Be Truly Happy
Being able to choose your life’s purpose is a luxury. Throughout human history, until very recently, only a tiny handful of people had the opportunity to choose want they wanted to do with their lives. The rest of us struggled with raw survival. Even then, if...
How To Free Yourself From Your Golden Handcuffs
If you want to free yourself from your golden handcuffs—how do you do it? (If you are uncertain whether or not to free yourself, see this post). In my experience, one of four obstacles block people who are ready to lose their cuffs but who are stuck and can’t...
Should You Free Yourself From Your Golden Handcuffs?
Golden handcuffs are the 21st century equivalent of a pact with the devil or Faustian Bargain. Such pacts are common in Christian (and likely other) folklore: a person sells their soul to the devil and into eternal damnation in return for an extra-worldly power or...
When Does Coaching End?
When does coaching end? It depends. Generally, it ends when the client chooses to end it. On rare occasions, when the client becomes uncoachable or stops doing the work, I will end the relationship. Most clients get what they need from coaching in six to twelve...
Four Areas A Coach Develops So You Can Live Life Well
Living life well takes practice. No one expects a person to master, say, the piano or surgery or a forklift, without sustained training and practice. So it is with life. If you want to live life well—to live it with verve, meaning, and purpose—it helps to have...
How Your Body Tells You It’s Time To Change Something Important In Your Life
How do you know when it’s time to change something important in your life? You might think this an inane question. Like how do we know when our arm is broken? When it doesn’t work—and it hurts. But one thing we’ve learned in the past century is that we consciously...
How To Level Up Your Life And Stop Playing Small
To level up your life means to quit playing small and to start playing big. What is playing small? It’s not asking for a raise; it’s putting up with a job you don’t like, it’s suffering a dead relationship, it’s not being excited every day, it’s letting your fears...
Why Personal Honesty In Leadership Is So Critical To Your Success
You may think it obvious that personal honesty in leadership is essential. How effective is a leader going to be who doesn’t give you back the right change? Or who lies, isn’t fair, or is deceitful? But this understanding of “honesty” is a very thin understanding of...
A Conversation With Marc Mawhinney on the NaturalBornCoaches.com Podcast
A conversation with Marc Mawhinny. Marc is a lifelong entrepreneur who helps coaches get more clients (without paid advertising)! He achieves this with his coaching programs: the popular Natural Born Coaches podcast, his Facebook group The Coaching Jungle, and his...
Ontological Coaching: Choosing Your Way Of Being
There are many different coaching methodologies. I practice Ontological Coaching. So what is it? Say you hike into the woods for a picnic with a really exciting date or with your husband or wife on an important anniversary. On a stream bank, you spread the cloth,...
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