Recently I posted that I was a Mentor now, or a Life Directional Coaching…sounds like of mystical, very esoteric even!  I have gotten a LOT of emails about this from friends, family, and clients who thought I had perhaps jumped off the deep end.  Some thought the name was great!  Others called me a sissy boy (Yes I’m looking at you James!)  So I thought I would come clean on where the term came from…Ancient Greece!  Oh wait, that’s mentor not Life Directional Coaching.

In truth it came up in a conversation I was having with a new friend of mine, Tom Zeeb of Profitable Partnerships, when I was trying to describe to him what it is that I do.  You see for the last few years I have been a Business Management Consultant and most recently I have spread out into being a real estate investor and mentor to young (not in age) Entrepreneurs.  In my conversation the term “Life Direction” came up.  It really does embody what I do, after all.

As any of my readers know, or perhaps don’t realize, I believe that living in balance is the path to not only healthy living, opportunity, but more importantly freedom and true happiness.  Each of the three top level areas of living in balance (Health, Wealth, and Fun) are individual facets of our life.  We have our personal life, our business life, our financial life, our social life, our private life, and the list goes on and on.  All of these facets make up the complexity that we call SELF.

So recently, I decided to brand myself as a Life Directional Coach.  I help to coach those (primarily Entrepreneurs) through the hardships of LIFE.  All the facets of LIFE that affect their business and balance…but primarily business.   I have to be honest here, I am a very private person and I was not really all that sure of whether or not I wanted to “out” myself as a coach/mentor/etc fully, yet I knew it was my path…it is after all a HUGE responsibility helping a young (again not age!) Entrepreneur move forward through the trials of that life and learning how to Live IN Balance.  Yet it is extremely exciting and fulfilling!

So here is my question to all of you, my readers, what do you think of the term Life Directional Coach?  Is there a better name out there?  Is it an AWESOME title/description of what I do?  Or is it lame?

James…you are not allowed to comment, nor are you allowed to rally your supporters!

Let me know what you think!  Leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts!

We all go through a variety of life changes over the course of, well our life.  These changes can be career related, family related, or situational related.  Recently, I myself have been going through a variety of changes.  You see for years now I have been doing business management consulting with some success.  The only problem, as my readers already know, is that I never found it to be soul fulfilling.  I realize now that my crusade is what drives me above all things.  I love working with Entrepreneurs and watching them grow and expand their lives and businesses.  For me, few things are as fulfilling.

But you see I ran into a snag of late.  Entrepreneurs don’t like being consulted.  Well let me change that and say they don’t like consultation invoicing (at least how my company has always done it).  Instead, they prefer to pay a large amount up front with an acknowledged amount of sessions over an agreed upon amount of time.  So I have adapted and changed.  With that change came the realization a friend of mine laughing said to me, “Congratulations Dan, you are officially a Mentor.” Read the rest of this entry