Idealist Coach: Strategic Life Coaching & Consulting

I recently posted an article on an ABC 20/20 episode that compared the happiness levels of various countries and attempted to explain why these differences might exist. Among the conclusions was that more materialistic wealth doesn’t necessarily lead to more happiness. This got me thinking about how our current economic recession may–or may not–impact happiness […]

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Overall, the greatest focus of coaching by far is upon the present and future. However, one of the most powerful exercises I went through during both my own coaching and coach training, in a few different forms, was an assessment of the enjoyable activities in which I’ve engaged since a very early age. This was […]

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The term “naked idealism” has been used to refer to thinking that is too “pie in the sky,” without sufficient grounding in reality. In my opinion, most of us don’t do enough such thinking, and often allow ourselves to be limited by current reality before we even begin to envision the life and world we […]

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