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Life? Don't talk to me about life....
Mar. 22nd, 2006 09:52 amI watch The Daily Show with Peter most nights. I find that their skewed version of the news makes more sense to me than watching the evening news at times. Jon Stewart's acting abilities are wonderful. I love his boggled eyed double takes. I also watch Penn & Teller's B--l S--t and while I may not always agree with them, they do get me thinking about what I believe and why. I listen to NPR in the morning and while I am cooking dinner for the family. I find all kinds of interesting information there and again things I hadn't really thought about.
Recently all three touched on a topic that I find at time funny and at other times very sad. I don't understand all these people who have no real training in any sort of social work but charge lots of money to be other people's life coaches. According to the dictionary, a Life coach is defined as "an advisor who helps people with problems, decisions, and goal attainment in daily life".
Putting "Life Coach" into Google gets you more hits than one can sanely deal with. There are many courses so you too can be a Life Coach for others. I mean if it is good enough for the kings of yore and the political leaders of today then it must be good for everyone. And there are probably some good ones out there who are really helping some people. But the majority comes off like snake oil salesmen even on their own websites. For an exorbitant amount of money per week you get "someone in your corner" who will help you "find your true purpose in life" and become that "(happy, wealth, spiritually at peace, at one with ones oneness). Person you deserve to be". In the Penn and Teller piece on life coaching they asked the people they interviewed how much they charged and how much coaching the client gets for that. It was also pointed out that this is an industry that is not regulated by anyone.
I guess I should not be surprised considering how large the self-help sections are in most bookstores. We are a country searching for that elusive "thing" that will make us happy and we seem to be unhappy until we find it (or so we are told by many forms of media). But for some reason this one stuck in my craw until I had a brilliant idea at 4 AM. I want to start a new business model Life Cheerleader (TM). I'll give no advice but I will agree with what you are doing and cheer you onto your goal to make you feel good about yourself. Because don't you deserve to feel good about what you are doing? Or may be I'll pass the idea onto Penn and Teller or the Daily Show to see what they would do with it.
I am grateful that while my life is not perfect, it is pretty darn close.
Recently all three touched on a topic that I find at time funny and at other times very sad. I don't understand all these people who have no real training in any sort of social work but charge lots of money to be other people's life coaches. According to the dictionary, a Life coach is defined as "an advisor who helps people with problems, decisions, and goal attainment in daily life".
Putting "Life Coach" into Google gets you more hits than one can sanely deal with. There are many courses so you too can be a Life Coach for others. I mean if it is good enough for the kings of yore and the political leaders of today then it must be good for everyone. And there are probably some good ones out there who are really helping some people. But the majority comes off like snake oil salesmen even on their own websites. For an exorbitant amount of money per week you get "someone in your corner" who will help you "find your true purpose in life" and become that "(happy, wealth, spiritually at peace, at one with ones oneness). Person you deserve to be". In the Penn and Teller piece on life coaching they asked the people they interviewed how much they charged and how much coaching the client gets for that. It was also pointed out that this is an industry that is not regulated by anyone.
I guess I should not be surprised considering how large the self-help sections are in most bookstores. We are a country searching for that elusive "thing" that will make us happy and we seem to be unhappy until we find it (or so we are told by many forms of media). But for some reason this one stuck in my craw until I had a brilliant idea at 4 AM. I want to start a new business model Life Cheerleader (TM). I'll give no advice but I will agree with what you are doing and cheer you onto your goal to make you feel good about yourself. Because don't you deserve to feel good about what you are doing? Or may be I'll pass the idea onto Penn and Teller or the Daily Show to see what they would do with it.
I am grateful that while my life is not perfect, it is pretty darn close.
