Recent Articles From EvanCarmichael.com http://www.evancarmichael.com/ http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/REINVENTING-YOURSELF.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/REINVENTING-YOURSELF.html Recently and again, I had an opportunity to visit with Geoff Currier on The Nighthawk, CJOB’s evening show. Geoff asked me to join him in a discussion of how some people manage to re-invent themselves and he used the example of Frank McCourt the author of Angela’s Ashes to start things off. As a Life & Business Coach my work with clients is all about reinvention but perhaps not in the way you may think. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/LEAN-INTO-YOUR-DISCOMFORT.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/LEAN-INTO-YOUR-DISCOMFORT.html I must admit that learning to lean into my discomfort has had a very positive effect in my life! It was a process over time but the value of being able and willing to do it, was magnified 10 fold during my two year battle to survive my deteriorating lungs, followed by another two year journey back from the edge of death to good health, after surviving a 13 hour double lung transplant operation. My new lungs came from a 40 year old man who lost his life in a car accident when he was killed by a drunk driver. His incredible gifts saved the lives of four people. I know about discomfort! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS-IN-SEPTEMBER.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS-IN-SEPTEMBER.html Forget about New Years Resolutions in January, they don’t work! You’re wasting your time! September is the best time to set New Year’s Resolutions. Crazy idea, perhaps you disagree? Then answer this question; “why is it that most people who make them and seem quite serious about it, never really follow through and keep them?” A very good question don’t you think. I have addressed this issue before but on both occasions it was in January. Maybe now is a better time to take a different tact and initiate some thought, discussion and/or action around the idea. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/LIVING-A-PURPOSEFUL-LIFE.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/LIVING-A-PURPOSEFUL-LIFE.html As a personal coach I am surprised and still taken aback by how often I encounter people who regardless of their age, station in life; their position, the power they wield, influence and money they possess, are not in touch with the very essence of who they are and by extension the purpose or meaning of their lives, or to put it more succinctly the very essential reason for their existence. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/ITS-ABOUT-PROCESS-NOT-OUTCOMES-OR-WHAT-FOOTBALL-TAUGHT-ME.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/ITS-ABOUT-PROCESS-NOT-OUTCOMES-OR-WHAT-FOOTBALL-TAUGHT-ME.html Two of the greatest life lessons I ever learned believe it or not came early in my amateur football coaching career. They were to have a profound effect on my philosophy of life thereafter. So, if you can bear with me and allow my propensity to perhaps over-romanticize my 25 years as a football coach, I promise there is a lesson(s) here. You don't even have to like the sport! http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/BOYS-TO-MEN.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/BOYS-TO-MEN.html When Does a Boy Truly Become a Man? No, I have not gone off the rails, nor am I losing my mind; this is not about “boy bands,” although after all these years I must confess that I really, really liked them. This is just a few of my thoughts on becoming a man. Let me start by saying that I think the question of becoming a man is really a values question. Let me explain. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/MOST-OF-US-REMAIN-STRANGERS.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/MOST-OF-US-REMAIN-STRANGERS.html Leo Buscaglia has been quoted as saying; "Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us." Unfortunately, there is an incredible amount of truth in this statement. One thing that my life of experiences has taught me is that the likelihood of finding a deep and meaningful love relationship is directly proportional to the amount of time and effort I have spent in getting to truly know and accept myself. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/THE-MASTERY-OF-HARDSHIPS.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/THE-MASTERY-OF-HARDSHIPS.html "Life is Difficult, and when we come to accept that life is difficult, it no longer seems so!" (Scott Peck) It is a bit of a paradox but true happiness, as in intrinsic, in fact is a resulting symptom of a life well spent in solving problems and overcoming hardships. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS-REVISITED.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS-REVISITED.html The number one reason, and why most are unsuccessful in keeping their New Year's Resolutions, is because they do not know themselves well enough nor understand why they operate in the world in the way in which they do...so success in either eliminating a negative behaviour or acquiring a positive one is very elusive. http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS-Dont-Do-It.html http://www.evancarmichael.com/Productivity/3320/NEW-YEARS-RESOLUTIONS-Dont-Do-It.html DON'T DO IT! At least don't do it now. Why do what, for the most part is expected as a part of the New Year's paranoia. What is this obsession anyway with making resolutions as a part of welcoming in the New Year?