Success Stories About Creating What Matters Most in Life, Work, and Business

Many of us have great potential yet only manage to create "okay" success.

Stuck, stalled, or in transition, we often fail to live our potential or achieve the kind and quality of success we long for.

As a personal life coach and success coach for professionals, I help you find the best in yourself and build the skills, structure and support you need to create what matters most.

My success coaching does not just work in up times. Its unique design and implementation framework helps you thrive in challenging times and flourish in the face of adversity.

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Personal, Business and Entrepreneur Success Stories:
Thriving In Challenging Times And Beyond!

""Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful it dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories were created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity."

-Joseph Sugarman

Three Great Success Stories

These success stories describe how three personal coaching clients learned to create what matters most. Although each faced difficult circumstances, they all learned a new set of skills and an organizing framework that empowered them to thrive — in spite of the problems, circumstances, and challenges they faced.

Their's are business success stories, entrepreneur success stories, and, most important, personal success stories.

Ed: A Life and Business Success Story: Uncovering the Structure and Dynamics of Creating What Matters

Ed was a local businesman who had done more workshops and read more self-help books than any personal life coaching client I ever worked with. Although he was a difficult client to coach, Ed's story is fascinating.

Early in the personal coaching process, I helped Ed craft a vision of the kind and quality of life and work he wanted to create. But he wasn't happy with it. "Something," he said, "was missing."

What Ed could not see was that he'd unconsciously set up a structure - an organizing framework - in which several of his values and desires conflicted with each other.

Through coaching, Ed came to see how his previous unseen structure prevented him from creating results that mattered most. And he learned how to shift into a more effective structure that allowed him to create results he truly cared about. [Read more about Ed's success story.]

Sarah's Life/Work Success Story: Working With the Creating Process

Sarah's learning's about envisioning desired results and doing what's needed to make them happen are applicable to anyone wanting to do the same.

In Sarah's first coaching session, she listed a number of small, concrete results she wanted to produce. They included a writing space, a brochure for her freelance communications service, and a circle of friends.

When pushed to stretch for what she most wanted, Sarah outlined a long-term vision of what she wistfully called her "dream cottage."

Although it sounded great to me, because Sarah was short on money and living in an expensive part of the country, a number of the others in our group session thought her "dream cottage" vision was unrealistic.

I told her that it was good to stretch beyond her current capacity, and that the dream cottage result would be good practice - whether she succeeded in creating it, or not.

To find out whether Sarah did create what mattered most to her, read more of this fascinating success story.

Murray's Entrepreneur Success Story: Figuring Out What Really Matters

Murray hated his job and wanted to uncover what most mattered to him. But, it wasn't easy. What we really want to create and what we think we "should" create can get confused, as they did for Murray.

However, he persevered through the skill-building and framework-creating coaching process. He practiced, learned, and peeled away the onion skins of ideals and false desires.

His entrepreneur success story is about how he figured out how to shut off the "shoulds," articulate what truly mattered and create success that others truly savour.[Read more about Murray's award-winning entrepenur success story.]

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