Reading is a dangerous thing. Having a little lunch, reading a little New York Times. Click on an article under "most e-mailed" titled Should a Life Coach Have a Life First? Still trying to breathe. Can't decide whether I need to change careers or just sit in a corner praying, "Come, Lord Jesus."
You can become certified in "life coaching." Some courses are on-line, some connected with a school. Like every other job training in our culture, sounds like some are good and others are worthless. I still have days that I wonder why on earth I am going to school for five years to become an ordained minister when all I really have to do is fill out a form online and send in my money. And a number of these "life coaches" are between 25 and 30.
Though my first response is "really....25, huh? and you think you can life coach me...hummmm," I realize that I probably should be more open minded and less ageist. Moving past that one, my second response is "really....25, huh? and you think you can life coach me...hummmm." My third and final answer is "what on earth is going on in our culture that we need life coaches?"
Are we so bereft of community that we have to pay people to listen to us bounce ideas or help us problem solve? Have we slipped so far into the incessant wanting of consumerism that we have to pay even for our own ideas to be fed back to us?--like somehow what we think is valueless unless someone else values it (and we write the check defining its value...). Or, are we just crazy?
I'm torn. I think I'd be a pretty good life coach. I've been around awhile. I've had lots of experiences, good and bad. I love to boss people around. I could definitely cash checks for what I do in my head anyway. I could probably take plastic as well, if I hired a life coach to teach me how.
I'm shutting down the New York Times for the day. Too insane. Think I'll depend on politics to ground me. And if that doesn't work, maybe I'll hire a life coach.
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