First a confession: I have a problem with most coaching and self-improvement blogs. They are often about people reaching their goals. What’s wrong with that? I think a lot of the goals are trivial or superficial. If people need a lot of money to feel good about themselves, well, I hope they make a lot of money. I also hope they will reflect on why they have this need. (It is likely that making a lot of money won’t lead to them feeling good about themselves. This is the experience of most people from business people to lottery winners.)
As I have this problem it was good to find a coaching blog that is not like this. I’m referring to Chris Edgar’s Purpose Power Coaching blog. When I came across Chris’s blog I immediately felt that this was something different.
An example of what I mean is this post on The Joy of Listening. One of the barriers Chris lists to listening is a need to ‘deliver value’. How many coaching blogs would you read that on?
It may be that Chris’s blog is different because he had all the exterior trappings and still found that he wasn’t satisfied. He tells his story about this on his about page.
Chris focuses on finding satisfaction in your career but covers a lot of ground related to this topic (creativity, happiness, mindfulness and relationships as well as productivity).
Chris’s is a great blog that coaches you to success in your career (finding what you want to do and being productive in it). It is also good to report that Chris writes well. Purpose Power Coaching is a blog well worth checking out in depth.
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Thanks for your kind words Evan. I’m really glad you’ve enjoyed the blog. I agree that I do have a slightly different perspective because of my career background — I saw many people who’d “made it” in the sense of being millionaires and having expensive stuff but were strangely miserable. That was one of the experiences that got me into spiritual practice, because it was becoming increasingly obvious that the things I thought were going to fulfill me weren’t going to do the trick, and that I needed to focus on the moment-to-moment process of working as opposed to just the product. That’s what I try to emphasize on the site as well. — Best, Chris