The Constructed Life Coaching Program
The Constructed Life Coaching Program is a simple, but very powerful, re-education process which will show you how to:
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Initiate action
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Manage change
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Make clearer decisions
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Reduce stress and anxiety
It is very different from conventional therapeutic Life Coaching, which may offer support and expert guidance in various life situations.
Constructive Living takes the contrarian viewpoint that it is a useless endeavor to go back over the past to understand ourselves, “work” with feelings, or “fix” ourselves by building self-esteem, boosting self-confidence and the like.
Because it is more of a lifestyle re-educational... [Read more]
The Constructed Life Coaching Program is a simple, but very powerful, re-education process which will show you how to:
- Initiate action
- Manage change
- Make clearer decisions
- Reduce stress and anxiety
Dharma
Run to the edge of a cliff and stop on a dime.
This is my one of my favorite Constructive Living maxims. It takes a little thinking about. It has that Zen-like obfuscation factor which can be irritating to some – but which I love.
It’s not a call to lemming-like suicide as you might think. Perhaps another C.L. maxim of a similar nature would shed some light. “Give and give until you say goodbye.” Or – as a man named Ecclesiastes once put it “To everything there is a season. And a time to every purpose under Heaven.” Meaning there is a time to run and a time to stop. When it’s appropriate to run you run flat out. When it’s appropriate to stop you stop.
I thought of this today as I was watching a Sunday morning political news show. By the time you read this ,we will either have a new President or a lot of fat cat lawyers will be very busy. I have strong opinions about whom I would like to be our next President. Whatever happens, however, I have let go of the outcome.
Letting go of an outcome is a tough concept for some people. They see it as not having faith in yourself; giving up; being negative. To admit that you may not get what you want may appear to be defeatist. In fact... Read More
Ordinary Life
Why you can’t reason with an addict.
It’s painful when someone we care about doesn’t seem to want to turn away from their addiction. Why can’t they see what see?
We try to reason with them. We’re sure if they can just shift their perspective and see the bigger picture, as we do, they’ll stop their destructive behavior.
Of... Read More
Coaching
STAY
Much traditional coaching concerns itself with setting and achieving goals, building self-confidence, making plans and decisions.
All of these are action steps. By definition, action steps take you away from where you are. Nothing wrong with this, except when the answer to a particular situation lies right where you are here and now. Which is usually the case.
An... Read more