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Self Coaching, A Guide to Self Directed Living
Written by: Bradley FosterArticle Overview: This is part of the first chapter of my book: Deep Coaching, A Guide to Self Directed Living. For those of us who are able to motivate ourselves, Deep Coaching provides a great methodology to keep you on track to attaining your goals, whether or not you hire a coach to help you. If you like what you see, you can pick up the first three chapters of my book absolutely free from my website.
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Self Coaching, A Guide to Self Directed Living
Chapter 1
Integral Self-Coaching: Harnessing the Power of Change
Introduction
"Change is inevitable. Change is constant." - Benjamin Disraeli
The above quote, captures one of the most persistent yet ignored realities of life. Change is happening all around us and yet we tend to perceive ourselves and the world about us as constants. In fact, most of us share a deep human need to view our lives as just that: stable, consistent, and predictable. This perception makes day-to-day living feel safer and more comfortable, but by ignoring the pervasive reality of change makes us unavailable to valuable experiences and opportunities.
A huge cost of ignoring that change is happening all the time is the loss of appreciation of just how precious each moment of our lives is. Each moment is a unique gift of time and place that can never be recaptured or repeated. Being unaware of the constancy of change, we mistakenly presume that our moments, days, and weeks are interchangeable commodities; in doing so fail to realize the deepest appreciation for our existence.
Another cost of ignoring (At this point it is not a conscious change) change, one that is most relevant to this book, is the failure to recognize and use the golden gift that omnipresent change offers us each day. Change is happening whether we like it or not; even when we fail to recognize it, change happens; if we acknowledge and take advantage of it, we can make change work in our favour. This is a core focus of this book: directing change to happen for us in ways that enhance our lives, enable us to realize our highest potential and to grasp our deepest dreams.
Change is inevitable. Whether it happens for you or to you is a choice, a matter of conscious action.
WHAT IS SELF COACHING?
This book presents a synthesis of well established and cutting edge principles and techniques to manifesting change that we call Integral Self-Coaching. This book reflects nearly forty years of collective clinical and coaching experience and we believe it to be the most effective process available for self-directed personal transformation and performance enhancement. Before we go further, however, there are a few points we wish to make to help ensure you get the most out of this book and therefore, out of your life.
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About the Author: Bradley Foster RSS for Bradley's articles - Visit Bradley's website  I offer professional coaching services in the following areas: career/executive/business/leadership/life/writing/relationships and creativity. I help individuals and executives define and get in step with their stated goals and values. I'm an experienced coach, having worked with hundreds of clients over the past five years, coming to coaching from a business background and as a trained therapist. My clients and I work to close the gap between who or what they say they are, or want to be, and who or what they actually are now, as expressed by their actions. I'm also a writer, and communications consultant. I have published dozens of articles in North American newspapers, websites and magazines and for Reuters and Thomson Newspapers over the past twenty years. I published a book on self-coaching with co-author, psychologist and coach, Dr. Stephen Renfrey, called Deep Coaching: A Guide to Self Directed Living. I am currently writing a book on creative life strategies. I write a monthly career column called Ask The Coach in Job Postings magazine. I also write articles and have a blog I update every week. I recently published an article on the boundary between therapy and coaching in Choice Magazine, the premier coaching journal. I am a successful entrepreneur, business development executive, and business and communication consultant before turning to executive and life coaching full-time. I have an MA from The University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Science from the McGill University. I also attended The Ontario College of Art, Columbia University and I have a three year certificate in Leadership and Psychotherapy from the Gestalt Institute of Toronto. I received coach training from the Gestalt Institute and the Coach Training Institute. The breadth of my experience and the training I've done ensures that you'll get insight, clarity and direction from me. Click here to visit Bradley's website   Resolve to stop making resolutions Gratitude gives you so much to be grateful for Hold Me Tight Book Review A Timely Time Management System for Creative People Successful Goal Setting |
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