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Commitment is essential to Life Coaching and Business Coaching – Video
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Live life with absolute confidence – Video
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Live1010 Christian Health Coach Priscilla Ezonnaebi Tells about Life Coaching – Video
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Live1010 Life Coach Priscilla Ezonnaebi Tells about Life Coaching – Video
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Palm Coast Neighbors: Man on a mission
Posted: February 18, 2012 at 9:31 am
Palm Coast man coaches community leaders: Life Coach Pat Williams, Ed.D., of Palm Coast is on a mission to empower others to connect thinking, dreams and ideas with resources available to them. Williams is a Board Certified Coach and a Master Certified Coach as well as a psychologist, author and founder of The Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT). Since 1998 ILCT has coached leaders in big business as well as government, the medical industry and more. Today Williams remains involved with the organization, but is more actively involved in Coaching the Global Village (CGV), a nonprofit he founded in 2005 with a mission to “empower communities around the world to develop sustainable solutions for pressing human and societal needs.” As Williams put it in a recent interview, “CGV provides new ideas wherever there is an under-served population.”
So what exactly is life coaching?
“It is a special form of consulting that guides people by empowering them to think outside the box. It doesn’t give answers, but rather allows you to think about how you can take your ideas and dreams and move them to reality,” says Williams. He believes that this process helps people move from good to great by bringing out the best in each of us. This is exactly what he hopes to achieve through Coaching the Global Village.
For example, some recent CGV projects include:
■ The Kenya Project 2012. Funding support will allow CGV to work with local leaders of Kenya to keep improving the community, school and families in the years ahead;
■ Kansas Leadership Council 2011. Closer to home, CGV provided a workshop for the Kansas Leadership Council. This community leadership group supports individuals and teams to find their voices, listen deeply to one another, and move beyond conversation to leadership and collective action to build stronger, healthier, more prosperous and more joyful communities.
■ Florida Endowment Foundation Project. The Florida Endowment Foundation is a nonprofit headed by Heather Beaven of Palm Coast and offers educational enrichment programs across the state of Florida. Recently CGV provided training tor staff and mentors in the schools teaching the coach approach and also provided coaching to the administrative staff.
Williams wants to see the benefits of coaching expanded in our community. He hopes that CGV will broaden their partnerships in Flagler County. Life coaching is a holistic approach to developing leadership skills while improving a community. According to Williams, “…within every individual lies a wealth of knowledge and resources that are the source for sustainable solutions.”
With all the needs and problems we are faced with today, it seems that coaching is a needed tool. We all have gifts and skills within us that may be untapped. Coaching can help us reach inside of ourselves and expand those skills into viable ways to reach out and help ourselves and our community. Go to CGV at http://www.coachingtheglobalvillage.org to learn more or email Williams at pat@coachingtheglobalvillage.org
Upcoming events:
■ The Genealogy Society of Flagler County in Palm Coast will meet at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Parkway N.W., at 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Genealogists love playing detective as they solve family history mysteries. Most, though, have a few unsolved mysteries regarding the women in their family trees. Join genealogy professional Mary Penner as she outlines strategies for tracing our elusive women in a free webinar, “Finding Females in Your Family Tree.”
Her presentation, filled with tips and examples, will help individuals ramp up their detective skills in order to close the case on mystery women. For information, call 386-445-3253.
■ Washington Oaks Park Garden Tour will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Feb. 25 at the park. Join Park Ranger Amanda on a stroll through the formal gardens to learn about the various flowers, plants and animal species that this park has to offer. You will also learn interesting historical information about the park. Be sure to bring your cameras, sunscreen, bug repellent and comfortable walking shoes appropriate for a leisurely stroll through the gardens. The walk departs from the main garden parking lot. Regular park entrance fees apply.
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The Afro-American Caribbean Heritage Organization hosts its 31st Annual Black Heritage Day Festival at Central Park in Town Center, Palm Coast from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Feb. 25.
Enjoy food, vendors, entertainment and fun for the whole family. For info, contact Vivian at 386-446-6935.
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That’s it until next time when I will bring you more ideas about things that are going on in the great place we call home in Flagler County. Thanks to those of you that continue to send me calendar items for this column. Please contact me at pcneighbors@cfl.rr.com or visit my blog and leave me a comment there. http://www.wordsetcwriting.com.
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Coaching through the tears
Posted: February 17, 2012 at 4:09 pm
By Bill Vander Weele
Sidney Herald
Published on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 6:59 PM MST
It was probably the longest day of Staci Lange-Rice’s life. And the Savage girls basketball coach ended it by trying to lead the Warriors at a game.
On the morning of Jan. 7, Lange-Rice, who is a Sidney High School teacher, was volunteering at First Lutheran Church, Savage, by making meatballs for its annual lutefisk meal. She then received a call that fellow teacher and close friend Sherry Arnold was missing.
Lange-Rice and Arnold had built a solid friendship teaching math at Sidney High School for the past nine years.
“What drew us so close was Sherry’s and mine interests were so much the same,” Lange-Rice said. “Socially, it was always about our kids �“ we were always calling or texting what our kids were doing.”
They also experienced similar backgrounds. “We talked about our dads and their old ways of doing things. And we would chuckle about it,” Lange-Rice said. “Just finding peace out there (in the country) �“ there’s not as much stress or deadlines. There’s a lot that’s true about animals calming your nerves.”
Despite not knowing them well, Arnold always wanted to know about Savage’s girls basketball squad. “My team was always a huge interest of hers. She always asked and knew them by name.”
So on that tragic Saturday, Lange-Rice, in clothes that still stunk from her church’s raw meatballs, joined hundreds of other area residents to search for the missing teacher.
“By noon in my mind, I knew it wasn’t good,” Lange-Rice said.
The Savage native kept searching until late afternoon when she drove quickly back to her house and got dressed for her team’s game in Fairview.
“Fairview was very good to me. They showed a lot of caring and sympathy,” Lange-Rice remembers of that night. “There was a lot of concern on their faces.”
At one point during the game, she was unable to finish a thought during a time-out, but her daughter/player Bridger Rice completed the sentence �“ knowing her mother’s mind.
“It was one of the most difficult jobs I had to do,” Lange-Rice noted. “I knew Sherry would have wanted me to be there at my kids’ activities. Those times are so precious to a mom. My girls (Savage’s players) were very strong. They were very supportive and they took care of me.”
After the contest, a loss for the record, there were a lot of tears shed in Savage’s locker room.
“We were all very strong until after the game,” Lange-Rice remembers. “My feelings caught up to me at the end. I was able to grieve then and my girls were with me.”
The following Friday, it was announced that the missing teacher was believed to be dead. Lange-Rice was on the bench that night in Brockton, but assistant Becky Lyons handled the coaching duties. Lange-Rice, who was driven to the game by co-teacher and friend Mary Pfau, received hugs from referees, Brockton officials and other friends that evening.
Although Lange-Rice does her best to coach the Warriors, she admits her head sometimes isn’t totally on basketball. “It’s something that never leaves my mind,” Lange-Rice said of losing a friend.
Having the responsibilities of mother, teacher and coach hasn’t been easy. “It was hard, but I was always busy. I think that helped me keep my mind off of it. But then I had a lack of sleep because my mind couldn’t stop thinking.”
She and Sherry’s husband, Gary, keep in close contact. She’s established good relationships with some of Sherry’s other close friends. But pain exists daily. “It’s hard to walk by her room and see someone else parked in her parking space.”
She’s thankful for having her team with her during these challenging times.
“I think they’ve bonded into better people and a stronger team. They’re thankful for what they have,” the coach said. “The biggest gift is that they now look out for each other. They make sure no one needs to walk home or will be home alone.”
She notes that she has known three of the players for at least 13 years each. “This team is very close and near and dear to my heart. Their care and compassion was very supportive. I think when you show that, you become so much closer to everybody around you.”
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Mrs Pinkelmeyer Life Coaching Tips + Interview 2012 New York International Toy Fair – Video
Posted: February 16, 2012 at 5:28 pm
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Matheny wants to influence youth coaching, as well
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JUPITER, Fla. • Sitting at the desk in his new office at Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny was hesitant to ask. It wasn't the question that stopped him so much as the ramifications.
He figured that if he gave an honest answer to the simple question -- "How many games did you play at catcher during a season as a kid?" -- it would send some parent somewhere into action. The answer was a big number. He didn't want it to be a big headache for another kid.
"When I say we played 100 games a summer," Matheny eventually answered, "I was catching almost 100 games."
He then offered a caveat.
No kid he coaches would catch 100 games in a summer.
Matheny, who comes to the Cardinals' managing position by way of working the past few years as a coach for high school-aged players, spent more than an hour last Friday talking with this reporter for a story that appeared in Monday's Post-Dispatch. The story was meant to offer an origin of sorts -- a look at how Matheny got here before we spend a whole spring covering where Matheny goes next. Elements of the interview will nourish stories coming throughout spring as he touched on many topics -- one, for example, was what ingredient is missing from some talented players in the system -- but one issue he kept returning to as he described his own upbringing in Ohio as a full-time catcher.
There were things he did -- things he chose to do -- that he would not recommend for today's young players. At several times during the interview, he worried that "some whacked-out dad" would read his answer and inflict the workout on his son.
"I feel it's part of my mission with this position to make some amends for the game and some of the whacked-out views have," Matheny explained. "I'm scared to death that people are going to read this and make their kids catch 100 games in a summer. But that's what people are going to read into it. My dad was so not what this is -- this is what you've got to do. He was supporting me and the passion I had to do it. ... He encouraged us with whatever passion we had."
If you've read the story, you know that Matheny and his father, Jerry, once had a long talk about the benefits of playing catcher and how Matheny should commit to the position if he wanted to make the majors.
Matheny was that life-defining age of 10.
After telling that story, Matheny switched into coaching. He said nowadays he wouldn't let a 10-year-old choose a position and stick with it. Kids should be playing all positions, he said. It wasn't the early selection of a position that got him to the majors, it's what he did years after committing himself to the tools of catching. The better approach for all players, Matheny stressed, is to get experience all over the diamond.
Matheny's early move to catcher was, in part, related his older brother's experience with youth coaches. Rusty, two years old than Mike, was a pitcher, and he had arm troubles late in his high school career because, Mike explained, he was over-pitched as a kid.
"He pitched every game, every pitch, every inning," Matheny said. "My older brother was over-pitched and he really had trouble bouncing back from it later."
That's one reason Matheny treaded carefully as he told his story about not only falling for the game but working on the game.
As mentioned in the article, his dad and him set up a chart that would reward him for time spent working on his swing. Matheny would take 1,000 swings before school and a 1,000 swings after school, and if he completed the scheduled work each week he would receive an allowance. But it wasn't just 1,000 swings. Matheny was a switch-hitter at the time, so it was 500 swings from each side of the plate. And those 500 included dry swings, swings off tee and soft-toss swings off the contraption he invented to flip him baseballs. He also took swings at a basketball with a weighted aluminum bat.
When he was done listing the various types of swings he would take and how much time he would spend as a teen at the tee, Matheny again offered a caveat. It's one that may come up regularly with Matheny as he tells his story and others this spring and throughout his first season as the Cardinals' skipper.
This kind of work is not for everyone.
Doing so won't get you to the majors.
"That's my fear in talking about this -- that this is going to make some whacked-out (parent) do something stupid, too," Matheny said. "It's not for everyone."
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