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What Is a Life Coach?

A Life Coach helps individuals navigate the complexities of modern life and find meaning and purpose in their lives.

I see life coaching as a role that arose at our time in history because people are swamped with information and bewildered by constant, accelerating change. Traditional institutions like religion and academia weren’t designed to deal with these conditions.

The International Coaching Federation (ICF) defines life coaching as “partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires people to maximize their personal and professional potential.”

In my Wayfinder Life Coach Training, an ICF-accredited program, we define coaching [...]

How to Hear Your Intuition

What Is Intuition, Exactly?

Intuition is your “gut instinct”—that inner knowing that often defies logical explanation. I see it as an “inner compass” trying to guide us toward our best lives.

Intuition is connected to what I call the “Essential Self”—the core of who we are beneath the conditioning and expectations of the culture. By learning to tune in very closely to your inner compass, you can make decisions aligned with your true nature and life’s purpose.

Unlike the analytical mind, which is always weighing pros and cons, intuition speaks through:

sensations of the body flashes of insight a deep sense of “rightness”

In other words, [...]

How to Become a Life Coach

Step 1: Decide if Wayfinder Life Coach Training is right for you.

Whether or not you decide to choose coaching as a career, the skills you’ll learn in Wayfinder Life Coach Training will make you happier and more effective in your professional and personal life. Many people go through the program without any intention of setting up a coaching business.

That being said, Wayfinder Life Coach Training is for you if any of these feel true:

You feel called to help others. You believe traditional career paths and ways of working aren’t working for you. You want to make a living that feels connected. You [...]

Reawakening Your Original Genius

“I have good news and bad news,” said the researcher who’d just analyzed my brain scans. “The bad news is that you have ADHD. The good news is, it’s treatable.”

“Really?” I said. “I have attention deficit disorder? But…I have no trouble paying attention. Sometimes I pay so much attention to whatever I’m doing that I accidentally stay up all night.”

“That’s called hyperfocus,” he explained. “You pay too much attention to some things, and not enough to others. You have what we call an ‘interest-based’ nervous system—you pay more attention to things that interest you than to things that don’t.”

“Wait,” [...]

The Integrity Cleanse for Beginners

I recently had the chance to speak with the incredible Tim Ferriss for an episode of “The Tim Ferriss Show”—and our conversation was so absorbing it lasted two and a half hours!

Tim is a highly creative and unusual thinker who’s been well known for ages for his book The 4-Hour Work Week.

We talked about my upcoming book, Beyond Anxiety, and also discussed The Way of Integrity as Tim wanted to know more about my “Integrity Cleanse” and how to do one.

Living in integrity means expressing and doing what’s true for you in all situations. Departing from your truth in [...]

Magic at the Corner of Intention and Invention

I recently went to Costa Rica for the first time. Twice.

Of course that’s not literally true. There’s only one first time for everything. But something happened in regard to this adventure that I’ve noticed many times, in many areas of my life. Things magically double up.

Here’s how this goes: I feel a strong pull to do something, usually for no apparent reason. After daydreaming about it for a while, I set out to make it happen. Then, circumstances seem to arrange themselves to give me the thing I’ve just created for myself. It ends up coming to me two [...]

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