Category Archives: Life Coaching

Life coaching is a future-focused practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals.

Coaching is unlike therapy because it does not focus on examining nor diagnosing the past. Instead coaching focuses on effecting change in a client’s current and future behavior. Additionally, life coaching does not delve into diagnosing mental illness or dysfunction.

According to a survey of coaching clients, “sounding board” and “motivator” were the top roles selected for a coach. Clients are looking for a coach “to really listen to them and give honest feedback.” The top three issues in which clients seek help are time management, career and business.

Why Most Self-Help Books are Garbage | Overnight Sensation – Public Speaking, Communication and Personal Development

By Life Coach Reid Walley | Published: July 28, 2010
By James Feudo Self-help books can really help you. But just be aware that many of these books aren’t what they claim to be. If the author is focusing too much on him or herself, then you know it’s not worth reading. Self-help books are supposed to be about the reader – if they’re primarily [...]
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Business Owner Fighting with Customer = Complete Waste of Time

By Life Coach Reid Walley | Published: July 28, 2010
This is when you need a life/business coach: Years ago a business-owner friend of mine mentioned she had successfully “won” an email argument with a customer that was an asshole. The email exchange lasted for 4 hours. The upside: my business-owner friend felt vindicated. She couldn’t let it go, she “had” to put him in [...]
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Success is the sweetest revenge. And revenge is the world’s deadliest cancer.

By Life Coach Reid Walley | Published: July 27, 2010
- Reid Walley
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“I have found life to be too short to be preoccupied with pain from the past.”

By Life Coach Reid Walley | Published: July 25, 2010
– Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. – My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey [Paperback], page 152 My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal JourneyPh.D., Jill Bolte Taylor
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One of the MOST SELFISH things you can say to another person: “If you love me, then you will/won’t…”

By Life Coach Reid Walley | Published: July 20, 2010
“I love this Reid!! The day I stopped requiring things from my friends, my relationships blossomed!!! I am so thankful to not need this manipulation in my life! If you love me then you will do everything necessary to live your best life and find true happiness! Okay, now no more manipulation!!! LOL.” - Corrie [...]
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