What’s a Life Coach? A person who knows how to separate others from their money. The money has value, what the Life Coach sells doesn’t. At the risk of putting Life Coaches out of business, here is a list of what people need to do—and can do—without engaging a Life Coach:

  • “Train Your Brain” to think like a writer—and then write. Many cathartic and ancillary benefits come to a person who writes
  • Put thought and effort into how you “Spend Your Days”. Have a job that is unrewarding and gives you zero feeling of satisfaction and fulfillment? Are you WU (Woefully Underemployed)? Find a career path that gives you the feeling of achievement, creation and accomplishment. Learn new job skills, develop an entrepreneur spirit, get to the point where you spend your days in a healthy, happy, productive manner. You career will benefit if you have a writer’s brain.
  • Maintain a daily reading schedule including material related to your profession, a profession you would like to enter or your non-work passions. Warren Buffett said it’s important to go to sleep each night smarter than you were when you woke up. Reading is an easy way to accomplish this feat.
  • Have sufficient physical activity in your life but do not become EB (Exercise Bulimic).
  • Learn how to “Read a Room”. This soft skill will enhance your professional and personal lives and put you at an advantage over those who can’t read rooms.
  • When it comes to affairs of the heart, if you’ve found your partner early in life and are in a monogamous, healthy romance, consider yourself fortunate. If you’re still in the dating pool, memorize this quote from the poet Nikki Giovanni: “Most of us love out of our need to love and not because we found someone deserving.” Proceed down the road of romance with Nikki’s quote in mind. Also remember this anonymous quote: “The one who cares the least controls the relationship.” I’ve been in romances where I cared more than my partner, in romance where I cared less than my partner and one great romance where my partner and I were on equal sides of the “care scale”. Equal is best.
  • Do you have a Bucket List? If not, get one. Fill it with creative, charitable, and travel pursuits. Want to write that book or screenplay you’ve been telling everybody about for years (and boring them silly)? Start the process now. Want to travel? Get a passport and get to the airport.
  • Learn TM. Transcendental Meditation is the highest and best form of meditation. Mindful Meditation is a term used constantly. It means whatever the end user wants it to mean. I used to think MM had merit; then I was introduced to TM. It is the ultimate form of meditation and the form used most often by those with creative souls.
  • Learn to find Value. There are things listed here—writing, reading, not overdoing it w/ physical activity, traveling—that have value. My Executive Life Coach diploma has no value.

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