David Steele

Five Promises for Being Together Forever

Beloved, you are the love of my life and I'm grateful for each day with you. Our relationship is the most important part of my life and I am committed to being together forever. Though we are surrounded by cynicism and challenges, I resolve to ... Read >

Five Ways to Identify a Good Professional Coach Training Program

Given the explosive growth of Professional Coaching you will find many coach training programs. Here's a list of five things to look for when choosing a good training program: 1. A good training program teaches coaching This may appear obvious, but ... Read >

Comparing Professional Coaching and Therapy

Professional Coaching is very different from therapy and any other helping profession. To promote your understanding of professional coaching here are some similarities and differences between coaching, therapy and other helping professions. Please note t... Read >

What is Professional Coaching?

The International Coach Federation (ICF) has defined professional coaching as follows: "Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. Coaching h... Read >

Ten Guidelines of Professional Coaching

The goal of coaching is to empower clients, not to prescribe or advise as an expert. This is an area where many non-coach helping professionals may struggle because they're so used to being the source of knowledge and interventions and that is what their ... Read >

Ten Dirty Secrets of Happiness

My observation is that we want to be happy, but don't know how. This problem has been exacerbated by the messages in movies, television, and other influential media, that promote a consumer-oriented, immediate gratification society. We seem to feel ent... Read >

I'd Rather Be Single Than Settle!

To get what you really want, you must say "No" to what you don't want. Simple, but not easy. I've settled for less than I really wanted many times in my life, and each time my awareness of just how much of myself I gave up to accept that "OK" job, buy ... Read >

Secrets of Self Employment

Unemployment sucks. More people are losing jobs every day, and those that still have jobs worry about losing them. Families are suffering, homes are being foreclosed, fear is rampant. What can we do about this? The best remedy for unemployment ju... Read >

Seven Steps for Building a Million Dollar Private Practice

Private practice professionals typically conduct a very personal, intimate service that address the biggest, most important human needs, goals, and challenges imaginable. In any other industry the ability to solve such hugely critical problems would attra... Read >

Hard Times for Private Practice? I Don't Think So, and Here's Why

I received the following question from a subscriber- "With market and economy being what it is at present my practice is very very slow. My mentor just says it's the stock market and things are just slow. I'm down to four clients. What to do?? Do you... Read >

Conscious Dating Works for Twice-Divorced Author

As the author of Conscious Dating and founder of Relationship Coaching Institute I'm excited to share that this year I met my soul mate, Darlene, and we are engaged to be married! If you're a reader of Conscious Dating you know that I've been married a... Read >

How to Find Lasting Love by Experiencing Your Experience

In the pre-commitment stage when singles become couples, each partner has different hopes and dreams, wants and needs, attitudes and experiences. These differences too often result in relationship failure and disappointment when one or both partners attem... Read >

You're Single for a Reason

Copyright (c) 2007 David Steele One of the hardest things for me to accept is that I create my own outcomes, whether I like them or not, my failures as well as my successes. As a child of divorce I swore that when I got married it would be for life,... Read >

Rules of the Road for Effective Communicaton

Copyright (c) 2007 David Steele Nobody likes conflict, yet the most innocent words or actions can result in an argument, even with the best of intentions. Don't wait for your next argument- read this article now to learn nine "Rules of the Road" for ef... Read >

The Most Important Relationship Skill Is Not Communication

Copyright (c) 2007 David Steele The single most important relationship skill is not communication, it's taking ownership. Successful relationships require taking ownership of your "experience." WHAT IS YOUR "EXPERIENCE?" Your "experience" is w... Read >