If you’ve clicked on this page, you are probably someone who has great concern for your career. Most who get this far are not the average person who merely goes with the crowd. You know that you need something more, especially in this highly competitive and unstable job market. And you have either been working for some time or are looking to make your first career decision.
Career / Life Coach, What’s That?
Now the kicker, if you are like most people, you have probably never hired a life / career coach. I know I never did, until in more recent years when I discovered the great value a coach provides. And coaching has only recently become more popular, so you may not even know what it is. A brief aside to help you with this point.
Coaching is not counseling, therapy, or consulting. Coaches do not necessarily have your answers. But they do know how to ask the right questions and head down the right paths to pull from you what you want, need, and desire most. The best coaches pull from their clients eurekas, often understandings that have been pinned down and buried because the client has too often been too focused on outside sources for advice that has little to do with their personal, singular, and unique desires, hopes, and dreams. Bottom line, coaches don’t tell as much as reveal. But let’s move on.
So why pay good money for me? Who am I? And how can I show you that you can trust me to help you? Good questions. 
I have been a college professor for over a decade working in the trenches with students, most just starting out in life, who are lacking the 80% of skills, attitudes, and knowledge that are critical to achievement, especially in today’s highly competitive, volatile job market. Most are missing the critical understanding of self (knowing personality type / intelligence / values / character / weaknesses and strengths) that results in 70% of college grads no longer working in a field related to their major 5 to 10 years after graduation, resulting in upwards of 15 years of lost time and the leaving of 100s of thousands of dollars in lost income on the table.
Also, I have great depth and breadth of experience that goes beyond the mere academic.
I am in my fourth career. I have worked in the computer, entertainment, academic, and business fields. I know firsthand the challenges and fear that arise in making a major decision as to what to do with one’s life, especially with family, friends, and society clamoring that they have YOUR answer, which they often don’t. It took me six years to finally begin working in the computer field after several failed attempts at college. However, after five years in the field I knew I would not last, for I lacked the passion needed for sustained achievement. I moved into the entertainment field, then the education field, and now the coaching field.
At least initially, I was of the 70% who stumbled along spending close to ten years doing that which I had little to no passion for. If you don’t have passion for your career, you will not last. You can not wake each morning month after month, year after year, decade after decade doing that which you do not love, doing that which will eventually not enable you to get out of bed. The less passion you have for the work you do the greater the chance someone with more passion will replace you. Basic formula.
In addition, I have taught motivational / inspirational / directional classes that have literally turned students on and tuned them into their passion almost overnight. I had one student tell me mid semester, “Professor, I know now what I must do. I am going to be an EMT and I’m going to do it out of state.” He moved from Los Angeles, took a job in Vegas and finished the class he was taking with me from there.
Yeah, But Does Coaching Work?
Another student, told me that he was often annoyed when people asked him, “What are you going to do with your life?” But after reading my motivational fiction (Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe), a fun, whimsical romp, he told me that one day he was walking across campus and decided that he would look for the campus radio station. Why? His deep desire was to be a DJ, but he had snuffed it away because it was not acceptable, of the norm. As he walked across campus that day he said, “A smile came across my face. I wasn’t smiling at anything in particular. But I was just feeling a deep sense of joy I hadn’t felt in some time.”
Don’t Look at Me. You Are in Charge.
I can’t make you do anything you don’t want to do. And no one should ever force you to do anything against your will or better judgment. But most of our lives we are merely dictated to by teachers, parents, bosses, society as to what’s right for us, individuals that are unique like snowflakes. I cannot get you to where you want without your trust and belief that I merely set the environment that enables you to see, to see as clear as day what you’ve probably have know all along, but were never made aware of or enabled enough to get you there.
I come not to merely take your money. If I wanted to merely do that I would have gone into real estate, selling cars, or working for Enron. My life’s ambition, dedication, and goal has always been in seeking the deepest truths through study, research, and hands-on practical application. Through my experiences, and struggles, and research, I present to you solutions, help even, that gets to the core of your issues. No lies.
Peace!
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