Essays
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...
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...
Are You Stuck In Your Life? Four Reasons Why You Can’t Move Forward.
Are you stuck in your life? Do you want your life to be different than it is but don’t know how to make that happen? Instead, you stay right where you are, stewing in your own juices. You may try to claw your way out of your stuckness by reading self-help books,...
What Happens In A Coaching Session?
What happens in a coaching session varies, of course, but the general goal of coaching is to move you from where you are to where you want to be. Where you want to be could be anywhere: married or on your own; a leader in your community or an artist content in your...
Tired Of Feeling Trapped In Your Life? These Five Strategies Will Help Set You Free
Feeling trapped isn’t fun. Feeling like you can’t bust out of a boring or unfulfilling job, or out of a dead relationship, or out circumstances—financial, familial, existential—that are keeping you boxed-in, can be stressful, anxiety-ridden, and depressing....
What Is Personal Leadership To You?
I coach for personal leadership. I work with people who want to be leaders in their own lives. Leaders are those who know where they are going and are on a path that will take them there. Where they are going inspires them, it gets them out of bed in the morning, it...
What Is Coaching?
All world-class athletes—no matter the sport—have one thing in common: they have a coach. If you want to excel, if you want to be world-class, if you want to achieve more than you think you are capable of—you need a coach. And, if you are not getting what you want in...
Getting On Your New Life Path: Increase Your Behavioral Repertoire
In the introduction to this series about getting on a new life path, I identified four obstacles that often stop us cold. The first of these is getting into gear, and the second is beating your fear. The third obstacle is not having the necessary behaviors. We...
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