Jim and Emma,

Thank you SO much for helping to spread the word about the 10,000 Fists to Freedom Challenge! It has been taking off at an extraordinary rate, and I am so grateful to everyone who is helping to make it such a smashing success!

Everyone wins in this project, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for your help!

Gareth in C

You seem to have intimate knowlege about the subject matter

cool idea, GIC will contribute for sure. Maybe it is time 4 me to quit smoking afterall?

If you need to make a resolution, goal or major statement before doing something then you are doomed to failure. If you really want to do it you simply get off your arse and Go and do it.
For instance hows many of you have to make a new years resolution to go to the pub and drink more wine, stella, gin?
I’ve never made new years resolutions. Instead I might plan some activity, for instance a few years ago I wished to go and see the last bastion of hard line Communism in North Korea, sure enough 11 months later I was there. I wanted to work and live in foreign countries, I’m now on my third (and most interesting). I decided I wanted to Kite surf - I did it, snowboarding - yep that too, Scuba diving - affirmative, Speak Chinese - well on the way, it goes on.
Weak will power or lack of focus is the key to not achieving or completing something you want to do. This is a dangerous trait as it leads people to be discontent or think their life is not all its cracked up to be - this is where life coaches, therapists and religious nutters manage to gain a foothold. They tell you they can help and then tell you how to get off your arse in a new age kind of way -

GET OFF YOUR SODDING ARSE AND GO AND DO WHAT YOU WANTED.

Regarding 10,000 fists of Freedom - great film, not sure who supplied the lube though.

G I C I beg to differ. Some people need support and encouragement to help realise their dreams. I’ve been lucky to have people around so 10,000 lube free fists gets my vote! It’ll help people ‘get off their arse’.

today is that day is a well intentioned site BUT as GiC points out it is up to me, myself and I to sort life goals out. It depends on the person, the goal and the circumstances. Hmmm. We’ll see, maybe I’ll run the marathon afterall. Up for it Sarah?

This is awesome..Thanks for posting about it. I think I will take him up on his challenge!

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go gic.Today is that day is a great blog. U & angry should head on over there and chill.

no more marathons for me thnx Dd. I struggled to sit after my last one. Maybe gic or angry will join you as fab suggests x

OK FAB, prior to posting I have viewed the blog, it would be foolhardy not to view before offering an opinion. On the previous post I raised the question why you keep trying to push YOUR fix to a so called problem on to me. As my post here stated I realise the goals I set myself and don’t need this sort of thing.
You answered my question by asking AEP to ‘bring it on’.
Personally I feel that is like answering ‘what is 2+2′ with ‘Jelly’
However if blowing smoke up your ‘butt’ is what is needed to get you to do something then so be it, enjoy the US$100 if that is what it takes. I don’t put a price on my personal goal realisation. I realise them for myself as they are, after all, my goals. Is there any good reason why you can’t? In essence I am echoing the thoughts on the blog, get off your hoop and do it.

Running a marathon is not a goal or ambition I have, however good for Sarah for achieving hers.

2&2 = jello if I believe it to be. I dont smoke by the way. Time I won the $100 and got off my hoop.C ya..

Here we go again……… Life Charlatans Like GIC i waded through the waste of electronic paper that is Aaron’s blog site. Considering that most of the visitors to this type of web site will be lonely saddo’s, it’s not surprising that the most viewed blog was headed ‘Naked pictures of Antonella Barba Kill Captain America’. Like Life Coaches the particular subject was a fraud - not a single square inch of flesh to be seen!!
We’ve had this subject on this blog before and despite ‘Admin’ conceeding that they will ‘take note’ we’re revisiting old ground.
Life Coaches describe themselves as not as therapists - how could they as no formal training is required. A 12 day to 3 week course, an ad in the yellow pages, a few overpaid and supposedly stressed out executive clients, word of mouth (as i’ve said before) around the dinner table over a few glasses of expensive wine, and to keep up with the Farquar-Jones the client list becomes as swollen as their cash tills.
Co-incidently there’s an article in todays Gulf news about the subject. To reiterate GIC comments about getting of your arse one of the Life Bandits states ‘they (Life Robbers) practise all that they advise their clients to do. ”If i want anything, i have to get it myself”. In the article it mentions Pranic Healing………..what!!! It appears that this is another alternative medicine originating from the sub-continent. Cue the old joke how can you tell when an Indian is lying…..his lips are moving. The article again states that LC’s (Lying C….) approaches problems like a friend would………..then talk to a friend. At least they know you intimately and will give an honest answer, not ”well i think we can get to the root of your problem after about 20 sessions”. Friends and family apparently lack objectivity…..and habitually offer quick advice rather than ask powerful questions…….patronising! It’s one of the fastest growing professions in the world today. I wonder why?
The basic assumption is that we all have within us the ability to become successful - sorry there’s always going to be loosers in this life. They’re selling happiness, and of course who wouldn’t want to jump onto that bandwagon. If you want anything badly enough and it is important enough then it’s within yourself to sort it out - without paying money to unqualified ‘chancers’. It’s marketing hype/tripe. Some descriptions that these people give themselves shows exactly what they’re up to
Personality Makeover Coach and Celebrity Trainer
Life Designer
Mind development expert
Relationship coach
”They (clients) just need someone to point them in the right direction.”
It’s funny how the right direction always starts at the cash till?
Try this article http://www.uncoveror.com/manchurian.htm

Duh!A well researched point angry BUT like a dentist for my teeth in our lonely world, I need support, not to be the best but to put purpose into my once shattered life. Coaching is not for all but it does it for me. Like it or not, mind, body and soul is going to be HUGE as we evolve into the next dimension. Still angry?

This is the best this blog has been as the coaching topic hots up. Personal trainer, soccer coach, exec coach and whatever rocks your boat coach surely has a place? Society needs all the help it can get? No?

Fab
Why do you consider me to be Angry? It’s only a name - I don’t consider you to be Extraordinary/Marvellous/Amazing!

I am with AEP and GiC on this.

If it was all altruistic life coaches would do it for bugger all. But they don’t. Why? Cos its capitalism repackaged in friendly clothes.

Do any life coaches ever say ‘you really don’t need my help’.

Nope.

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Angry

fab is actually named after a lolly

and rather like the lolly 80 p will get you one with her.

ahem

Sarah
I’ve used the analogy before - but i’ll do it again for those who missed it first time round
Football coaches. In the Premier League there’s a rule which states that all coaches must have undertaken/passed the FA’s Coaching course. last season there was two (i think) coaches who were given special dispensation look where their teams ended up this season.
Fab dentists spend a number of years training - would you go to a car mechanic to have a root canal?
Life Coaches may have a place (in business where they first came from) but not making money out of people’s personal misery and problems……unless of course your filth rich and have a male appendage coming out of the top of your head!

The Axis of evil - the Life Coaching unbelievers
Gary
GIC
AEP

your choice lonely people x

The debate goes on and on. Themes on this blog are bound to return from time to time and with the quality of reasoned arguments improving, so they should. Cheers.

Fab surely the lonely person is the one who needs to go to someone to find out the obvious.

Bottom line

I could set myself up as a life coach tomorrow.

In fact I will

Its a tenner a session for Gary’s ‘get a grip’ sessions.

Anyone interested please send me your bank details.

ok Gary, provided that the get a grip session is related to coaching!

I like how you are thinking Sarah.

You pay me a tenner I let you get a grip.

You only get 15 minutes however and no using the ’support arm’.

The blog that started this ‘10,000 frauds a frauding’ says exactly what I said in my first post - get off your arse, he just uses a bit more flowery language and US$100 bribe.
When I say exactly what he does you think I need to ‘get a life’ or ‘chill’, when grasshopper van fraudulan says it you flock to it like flies to excrement.
If I had posted as ‘Bob up his own rectum’ and said ‘most spiritually aware people need no outside encouragement, their own inner life force supports their drive to attain enlightenment through parachuting/marathon running/hang gliding/going the shops/stopping feeling sorry for themselves/blaming everyone but their own sad arse’ you’d have all told me what a seer I was and how prescient and inscisive my comments were and how they have deeply moved your inner soul.

By the way, jello is the US version, we have Jelly. As you previously pointed out that I was not from the US surely you’d permit me to use real English? Regarding us being lonely, how do you arrive by that view point? I’m in a country of 1,300,000,000 people, the chances of being lonely are slimmer than an Anorexic’s shopping list.

Heres a few words from doctor gary.

Erm- think what you want to do with your life. Make a plan and do your best to achieve it. Keep smiling. Try to stay healthy.

There you go.

Life coaching in 25 words.

Well summed up Gary, when is my next session?

I still reckon, in sport, life or whatever the gola is that coaching has its place. As Gary has summed up but how many of us REALLY make a plan and do our best to acheive it?? Not I. coulda, woulda, shoulda.

Thing is lemmy as i see it if you really want ot do something you will do it. If not its not that big an issue at this point in your life.

Like Peter Sutcliffe- he heard the voices telling him to clean the streets up and went ahead and did it.

And no matter what you say about him he was top of the league in his game until Shipman outflanked him.

Sarah

your next session will be a one to one with me called ‘brown wings 101′.

folowed by a ‘make up class’ involving a new ‘facial’ I will apply. High protein so good for wrinkles.

why does Sarah get the invite, what about me. I’d like to fly oneday.

AH Angry ep, great FA coaching analogy. A badge I earned whist in Nottingham and put to use for $ during my year in california. Coaching has its place and damned right it is commercial!

FAB If you want your brown wings I am more than willing to ‘take you’.

Jim did get his FA badges - something some Pro footballers on the course failed to do- but thats Jim all over very focused, very goal orientated and setting challenges then going through them.

Marathons, triathlons, charidee bike rides, kilimanjaro etc etc- very good- very proud bro.

But after playing football with him he should have really have done FA first Aid. Some of his tackles were that late he’d jump in two footed in the pub after. Proper panto baddie stuff.

A bit like that one on the guy outside the Bulldog in Amsterdam, poor sod was just doing tricks for tourists.

Jim the gravy thickens.

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