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What is Coaching: Calling or Profession?

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What is Coaching -- Calling or Profession? What is coaching? Coaching, when effective, is a transformative process. It’s often life changing for the client and simultaneously humbling and heart expanding for the coach. This month’s featured Life of Purpose, LuAnn Nigara, is witnessing that experience as she expands her business from window treatments to business coaching programs. For many years...
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How to Help In A World of Hate

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The world is frequently in turmoil.  Current events often seem more like a cautionary movie than real life. Hate crimes, riots, rhetoric. Turning off the media isn’t a solution to ending the upheaval. The events don’t end. Their impact on the world and individuals has already occurred. But staying in pain isn’t useful. It doesn’t help the world and it…

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Do You Really Need to Be Powerful All the Time?

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Let go of being powerful all the time to embrace your life purpose.  Leave room for wonder, beauty, and the spaces in between. The Powerful Life Purpose Are you on a relentless, full speed productivity schedule? Do you love being organized, too? The sense of accomplishment that results from attaining your goals not only makes you feel good it keeps…

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This Is How to Leave an Inspirational Legacy

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Have you ever considered what will be left behind when you leave this life? Every year you live contributes to the legacy you leave behind regardless of how old or young you are. Perhaps you’ve done life exercises where you imagine yourself as an older version of yourself looking back and consider what it is you want to be remembered…

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Revealing the Gift Within Our Shadow

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Wherever there is light, there is shadow. While the beneficial aspects of light that allow us to see are immediately obvious, we sometimes have to probe to discover the gifts within the shadows — both literally and figuratively. The celebrated Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, created the term that describes both the aspects of human nature that are hidden from us...
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6 Ways to Increase Growth and Potential

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A new year -- time for fresh potential. Time for new beginnings, resolutions, decisions, lists. So many options can feel overwhelming, confusing, or discouraging -- the antithesis of motivation.  Yet, January is a tremendous opportunity for assessing our alignment, charting our route to happiness, and determining our goals. There are few times automatically built in to our natural year and...
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These Truths I Know To Be

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There's a lot I don't know, obviously. Like the majority of my fellow Americans, I did not envision an election night in which Donald Trump would get elected. I never took his campaign seriously. Until now I made a point of never publicly discussing politics, and seldom even privately (often to my family's amusement and perhaps, disgust). Politics are personal....
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The Difference Between Passion and Purpose

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Passion, purpose and the path between — what’s the real secret to living a fulfilled life? Do all the questions you hear about purpose and passion lead you farther away from a resolution? Themes and opinions on the topic vary, leaving speculation to whether they're the same thing and if they last a lifetime.  Do you even really have to...
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How to Hurt and Still Thrive in Life

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How have you been feeling lately? Regardless of where you live and work, events in our world  impact us all. For as much good as there is in the world, we are also experiencing massive amounts of pain. Unless you’ve been someplace that has kept you completely isolated, chances are you’ve heard of at least one current world event that…

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