Bruce Elkin Personal Life Coach, Success Coach, Self-Employment Coach

Personal Life Coaching, Success Coaching and Self-Employment Coaching for Creating What Matters — in Life, Work, and Business

Generic Skills For Shifting From Solving Problems To Creating Results!


""Those who do not create the future they want, must endure the future they get. "

— Draper L. Kaufman Jr

THE KEY TO MY WORK


The key to my coaching is helping people clarify and envision what truly matters to them, and to organize their life, work, relationships — and their actions! — so they support that vision.

Creating the future requires more than specific skills that only apply to specific areas.

It requires generic skills (skills for creating skills) and a structure in which to organize and apply skills effectively.

Structure matters! Every action you take happens within an organizing framework. If your framework doesn't guide you toward desired results, it'll guide you away from them. Your actions will be a waste of time and energy.

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To create the future you want, you must recognize the differences in dynamics — and results — between problem-solving and creating. This is step one in my personal coaching work.

You can't create results in an energy-killing "Yeah, but…" structure. You create pessimism, uncertainty, frustration.

Shift to an energizing "Yes, AND…" structure — creating — and results come simply, easily, with less stress.

Taking action in the generic creating framework greatly up your chances of creating the future — the results — you most want.


"Working with you as my personal life coach is like going to the beach and breathing fresh air."

— Francesca Armanderis, Ph.D Candidate, Los Angeles, CA

What Is The Difference Between Problem-solving and Creating?




Creating What Matters Most!


Creating is not just about the arts! It's not the same as "creativity" (doing things differently) or creative thinking. It's not creative problem-solving". results that matter

Creating is about the act of creating - bringing into being results that matter to you. Almost any results!

As your personal life coach, I help you clarify — and clearly envision — what you truly want to create.

And I help you develop the powerful new skills you need to make your desired results a reality.


"I was stuck. I never thought self-employment would be a path with heart for me. But, with new generic skills and your help, my home-based business has become very successful. I love what I do, and make a reasonable income from it. "

— Daniel Mannus, Small Business Owner, Vancouver, BC

Generic Mastery — The Key To Success On Your Terms!


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My coaching approach helps you develop Generic Mastery,

Transferable Generic Skills give you a generalized capacity and organizing structure with which to turn almost any vision into reality.

With Generic Competence and Confidence — you feel excited by starting with nothing and creating results you love in your life or work.

Mastery of generic skills helps you simplify and enhance life and work. They make it easy to focus on dreams and desires you care about. They empower you to create results with less stress, more enjoyment and lasting success.

Most important, generic mastery empowers you to create success on your own terms — with whatever you have to start with!


Three Personal Coaching Success Stories.


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"I was lost, overconfident and seeking direction. As my personal life coach, Bruce helped me develop a framework for self-employment that I still use today."

— Kevin "Doc" Klein, Organizational Consultant, Asheville, NC


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