Life coaches help deal with life’s twists and turns
By Terry S. Smith | April 14, 2007
The Tennessean printed a very informative article about Life Coaching. Thanks to writer
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What I Believe
By Terry S. Smith | March 10, 2007
I believe in my questions!
- After getting drunk at eighteen years old my first year of college, my question: Am I doomed to repeat history? My mother was an alcoholic, my grandfather was an alcoholic! Am I an alcoholic? That question set me on a quest to not repeat history�..to not do to my children what was done to me!
- When my mentor and minister friend in these college years went through a divorce like my parents, my question: If the minister can’t make it with God, how in the world is someone like me going to make it?
- When my girlfriend’s father from 9th grade through my junior year in college committed suicide because of a loss in the stock market I asked “why?” Six years later my ex-girlfriend did the same thing; the despair in this caused me to ask “how can we stop this generational death cycle?” Is there any hope? I can’t trust my parents, I can’t trust religion; I can’t trust money? Where can a broken child find their way when the helpless reality of significant people model devastating failure?
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Leadership Coaching
By Terry S. Smith | February 11, 2007
You are more influenced by what you believe than by what you know. Beliefs rule, so it is important that your beliefs and the power of their effects be recognized and understood in your attempt to do what it takes to be more effective in your leadership.
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Lessons from Geese
By Terry S. Smith | January 7, 2007
Lessons from Geese
Fact 1
As each goose flaps its wings, it creates an “uplift” for the birds that follow. By flying in a “V” formation, the whole flock has 71% greater flying range than if each bird flew alone.
Lesson
People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier, because they are traveling on the thrust of each other.
Fact 2
When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of flying alone. It quickly moves back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of it.
Lesson
If we have as much sense as a goose, we stay in formation with those headed where we want to go. We are willing to accept their help and give our help to others.
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