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    Life Lessons From a Life Coach
    Life Lessons From a Life Coach
    Life Lessons From a Life Coach
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    Life Lessons From a Life Coach

    By Soraya Nickens

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    What can you do when being a lifelong caregiver has left nothing for yourself?


    How do you persevere when you're young and gifted, but tragedy threatens to steal your motivation?


    Where is the silver lining when the one you love may leave you homele

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThird Power Publishing
    Release dateJul 1, 2021
    ISBN9780982110010
    Life Lessons From a Life Coach
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    Soraya Nickens

    Soraya Nickens is a certified Life Coach, motivational speaker, and television commentator based in Westchester County, New York. She has successfully coached a wide variety of clients with diverse backgrounds and goals for several years.

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      Life Lessons From a Life Coach - Soraya Nickens

      DEDICATIONS

      I dedicate this book to my two sons, Jason and Gerald. Reach for the stars!

      Contents

      DEDICATIONS

      FOREWORD

      CHAPTER 1: KAI

      LIFE LESSONS

      CHAPTER 2: PENNY

      LIFE LESSONS

      CHAPTER 3: ALENE

      LIFE LESSONS

      CHAPTER 4: HAL

      LIFE LESSONS

      FOREWORD

      Life is a journey. Such simple words but oh so true. We are the helmsman/woman of our ship, captains of our destiny. Every decision we make or don't make defines our life. As a life coach, it has been an honor to help my clients move forward with their plans and ambitions. Life coaching is a collaboration between coach and client to realize the client's goals. In this work, four situations are examined (names changed to protect privacy) and we see how each individual arrived at a resolution. We also try to extract the life lessons learned.

      CHAPTER 1

      KAI

      CHAPTER 1: KAI

      Kai had been on the job for 14 years. It was a steady government job with good pension prospects, but it was stressful. Despite this, Kai was good at her job, seemed to get along with her co-workers and even managed to squeeze in college courses at night, which led to her attaining a bachelor’s degree in psychology. When we started coaching, Kai let me know that she had general dislike for her job. Some of the reasons were disdain for co-workers, dislike and lack of respect for supervisors, and overall disillusionment and boredom with the job.

      Due to these reasons her behavior was not exemplary. She was calling out and acting out at work. Supervisors were fed up with her as well and things were bound to come to a head. We talked about the job itself. I asked her to think of some

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