It's My Life (But Someone Else Leads It)

By Dave Baxter M.A.S.C.(Life Coach)

A short and personal look into my work as a Life Coach

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dave Baxter M.A.S.C.(Life Coach)
• Release date: Jun 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458182036

Dave Baxter M.A.S.C.(Life Coach)

I am a life coach / personal development consultant, a husband, a musician, a pagan, a parent who is based in the UK and works full time in the entertainment industry. The entertainment industry is very important to me as is seeing the people i work with develop into more rounded, focussed and confident characters My style of work is, some may say, off the wall but hey, if it gets the results the client wants what does it matter.

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It's My Life

(But Someone Else Leads It)

Dave Baxter M.A.S.C. (Life Coach)

Published By Dave Baxter at Smashwords

Copyright 2011 Dave Baxter

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CHAPTER 1

Who am I and what am I all about?

The question that starts this book is probably one of the most profound questions that mankind can ever, and will ever, ask.

Firstly it is my intention to provide, within these pages my own personal take on this ponderous matter and then secondly to elaborate, by means of examples and exercises, a possible pathway through this maze that we call Human Existence, that of Life Coaching and all that this subject encompasses.

So who am I?

The simplest way to answer this question is –

I am another yourself

This statement is a traditional greeting from the Mayan civilisation and means I am you, and You are me. In other words in each other we see ourselves.

But that is going way beyond what is asked by the basic question of "who am I?

My name is Dave (christened David) Baxter and I am a 55 year old Marketing Manager living in Devon. I am the oldest of 3 children, born into a working class family in the Midlands town of Tunstall, Stoke on Trent.

When I reached the ripe old age of 6 the family moved to The Country and we settled in the tiny village of Appleton, Cheshire. Dad became a Civil Servant and mum the typical suburban housewife.

With the best of intentions in the world the Baxters were on the move up the social ladder and were quickly accepted into the Middle Classes.

Soon the blue collar shirts were replaced by white ones and by 1960 Dad had taken (and passed) his driving test and the family moved another stage up the social ladder by becoming the owners of 1947 Rover 14 tourer, complete with sunroof, rear window blind, spotlights and Rover’s own Freewheel system.

The rest of the family in the Midlands held us up as shining examples of that which could be achieved if one had brains and not brawn

Yes.. life in the early 60s was good!

And so as the wheel of life spins forward to the heady days of 1964 I pass the 11 plus examination and am packed off to Grammar School – boy did that make the family sit up and take notice!! I was the first child from the combined Baxter and Roby clans to make it into such hallowed halls.

It was also during 1964 that I was coaxed into learning to play the piano and began a course of study with the London College of Music – something that was to shape a very important part of my life in later years.

The move to Grammar School also woke another part of me that was to become a second cornerstone of my adult life, my interest in matters of ancient civilisations, different cultures and religions and the possibilities of the Universe.

My circle of friends included the children of business people, bankers, stockbrokers, petrochemical executives and from the world of music the son of a school janitor – much as I loved this guy and we came from similar backgrounds, we walked different sides of the tracks, but were essentially the same person.

(I am another yourself)

1970 and all that jazz

At this junction in my life I had discovered that being in the company of women was far more pleasurable than playing a piano and as a result of this life changing discovery I decided that my future was not