Life Coaching Articles, Personal Coaching Articles And Life Design Resources to Help You Create What Matters Most
Writing is a special dream of mine. However, for most of my life I did what many do about what matters most to them—nothing.
I hoped, wished, wanted, and even whined a little about wanting to be a writer. But I did not choose, commit to, and do what truly mattered to me—write.
Not very appropriate behavior for a personal life coach, life design, and success coaching expert.
However, browsing old journals and yearly choice lists, I noticed a different priority—a "trip of the year"—at the top of each year's list. I also noticed writing was always second. Always!
Writing, it suddenly dawned on me, mattered most. My purpose in life was to be a writer! I was shocked, elated and incredibly energized.
Previously, instead of focusing on what truly matters most, I focused on things I thought I should do. And things to earn time and money so, someday, I might be able to do what I most wanted—be a writer.
"Someday?" Yes, I know, “Baaad coach!” Someday never comes. It's always today, always now.
I know that. I teach that. I coach other people to act on that. But, hey, like you, I’m only human. I do my best, and writing is finally at the top of my list— and I love it!
I'd
also love to share my writing with you.
Free Articles, Booklets and Other
Writing
As
well as my well-reviewed book Simplicity
and Success, and my two very well received
eBooks: Emotional Mastery,
and Barriers
to Success, which you can get more info about and
purchase from the Books and Products page,
I'd also like to share the following free resources with you.
Some of them are personal life coaching articles, personal coaching articles and essays about my life design framework and process.
Others are about dealing with depression, or creating sustainable communities, or developing organizational mastery. There's even one about how I learned to climb frozen waterfalls in the Canadian Rockies. (See Non-Fiction.)
Feel free to use anything that interests you in these writings. Send them to friends. Use them in workshops or leadership programs. Hand them out as course materials. If you're stuck in the woods without kindling, use them to light your fire.
All I ask is that if you copy
and use them for other than your own personal use, that you please acknowledge
me as the writer and make sure the following attribution is attached:
"Written by Bruce Elkin, Personal Life Coach, Success Coach
and author of Simplicity and Success: Creating the
Life You Long For. For
more info or a free 45-minute consultation on how to design and live the
simple yet rich and successful life you long for, please contact Bruce at
http://www.BruceElkin.com."
Downloading Resources
The articles, booklets and e-book are in different formats to make it easier
for you to download them. Some in PDF format are fairly large, so give them
time to load. The longer the document, the longer it takes to load. Please be
patient. They’ll come up. The writings are arranged in the following categories:
• Life Coaching Articles, and Personal
Coaching Articles
Creating
Your Own Future: Seven Practices for Turning Resolutions into Reality (17K)
In
the Business of Success (8K)
• Simplicity and Success
Book
Proposal (48K — updated)
Part
One: Introduction (72K — updated)
Simplicity and Success:
Creating What Matters Most (20K)
• Life Design, Personal Mastery, and Creating What Matters Most
Your
Ordinary Self is Good Enough - A 3-Part Series (55K)
Chords
of Life: Creating Simple,
Integrated, and Successful
Lives -- In Harmony with
Life Itself (66K)
Taking
a Stand for Your Own Greatness (8K)
Skills
for Creating Success On Your
Own Terms (12K)
• Creating Optimism and Resilience
Depression
Proof Yourself — and Your Kids! (56K)
This
Matter of Mood (20K)
• Organizational Mastery
Fit
to Stretch: Generating Results in Organizations (20K)
The
Structure of Change: From Solving Problems to Creating Results (12K)
• Corporate Sustainability
Designing
Organizations To Do Well By Doing Good (96K)
A
Structural Approach to Creating Sustainable Businesses (180K)
• Community Sustainability
Creating
Our Common Future: Transcending the Limits of Problem Solving (700K)
• Environment
• Memoir/Creative Non-Fiction
The
Weeping Wall (33K)