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Coaching The One True Destination

A major trap when coaching clients in their life purpose is thinking that there is one right destination as well as one right route to get to it. Many clients believe there is only one…
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Learning Through Failure

Last month we spoke about the MapQuest Paradigm—the idea that God has one set of directions for our life.  And, if we miss a step or make a wrong turn that we are somehow disqualified…
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Coaching And The MapQuest Paradigm

When coaching a client who knows their calling, there is still the question of how to walk it out. For some, following the call is like tiptoeing through a minefield. One false step and it’s…
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The Message of Your Life

In working with Christian coaching clients, there is a special life message that’s a summary of their story—the place where their various life messages join together in one theme. What one message does Jesus speak…
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Life Coaching for Leadership Couples

Keeping spouses on board is an important part of life purpose discovery. Ideally, couples go through this process together. In marriage, the two shall become one—and hence, their individual destinies are intricately woven together. I…
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Suicide What a Coach Needs to Know

You are a coach, and you have a dilemma. A client asked you to help him to clarify his life purpose and to make a plan to pursue it, which you are happy to do…
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Where Do You Look For Destiny

How does God reveal our destiny to us? Most life purpose models have us look inside, at our passion, design and life experience, and say, “What am I passionate about doing? What fits me? What…
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Purpose Beyond This Life

A key insight we get from studying Jesus’ life purpose is that the story doesn’t end with this life. Jesus’ ultimate destiny is for God to put all things under his authority, and to finally…
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Life Purpose and Suffering

I’ve always been sort of intrigued by the list of lives of the faithful in Hebrews 11. Paul talks about those who through faith conquered kingdoms, stopped the mouth of lions, escaped the sword, or…
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Influence Authority and Responsibility by Tony Stoltzfus

A key second principle that allows coaching relationships to be unconditional is that they are purely influence-based. As a coach, you don’t hold a position of authority in your client’s life like a boss, pastor…
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Unconditional Coaching Relationships by Tony Stoltzfus

Coaching is an unconditional relationship. This means you as a coach offer full acceptance and unqualified belief to your client, independent of performance. This agape’ concept comes straight from the gospels:  

“But love your enemies…
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Coaching for Effective Succession – by Anita Stadler, PhD

Succession planning is a topic that is difficult for many leaders but which can be made easier with the assistance of an executive coach.  I have managed the succession planning process within a large corporation…
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The Destiny Perspective by Tony Stoltzfus

Coaching focuses on helping people become what they were born to be. Christianity has a unique perspective on destiny that is both personal and corporate, sacrificial and fulfilling. Concentrating on personal happiness and ignoring sacrificial…
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