Get a bunch of coaches together and some are likely to start coaching each other – with consent, of course. I’d dread to see non-consensual coaching haha!
Anyway, we were doing some practice in one of the ICF’s 11 core coaching competencies. And tonight’s was all about “Setting The Foundation”.
By mistake, I posted them late last night to this blog and to my new ghostwriting & copywriting blog – as it turns out, an unintended test of whatever duplicate content policies the big ‘G’ search engine might be enforcing haha!
If you want to read them – go visit my Samurai Writer’s blog.
The Irish Times had an interesting but troubling article recently titled, “Misery Of The Returned Emigrant.” It was written by Dublin-born freelance writer and journalist, Brendan Landers who emigrated to Canada in 1984 and then returned to Ireland in 2000.
Brendan’s article paints a somewhat despairing view of a prosperity and wealth bonanza that had all the trappings of success – but few of the foundations for sustaining it.
I first heard about Les from career coach Cathy Goodwin’s excellent Mid-Life Career Strategy blog.
He was a former Wall Street Journal reporter who ended up living out of his truck from June 2002. The story made the USA Today newspaper in Sept 2003 and I strongly encourage you to read it – How A Regular Guy Gets Homeless -as I believe it contains 5 key survival lessons for what many ‘white collar’ folks may experience over the next 5 years:
There are now over 180 posts on this blog – many about mid-career change.
However I realize that few readers will have the time or patience to go rummaging through the archives looking for diamonds among others collecting digital dust.
What I’m going to do is put together “The Best Of MarkMcClureToday Volume 1″ and release it as special report.
