Thursday Thoughts: Get Closer to Where you Want to Be

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Along with today's Thursday Thought, I just wanted to recommend a quick article on Huffington Post published yesterday about life coaching. It presents two helpful ways to understand the difference between therapy and coaching.

1. According to Martin Seligman, the founder and pioneer of positive psychology, life coaching revolves around the essential question: Do you want to be pulled by your future or driven by your past?

2. Carol Kauffman, founder and director of the Institute of Coaching and an assistant clinical professor at Harvard Medical School, put it differently... "The difference is that in therapy you follow the trail of tears with a goal of healing," Kauffman said. "As a side-effect, people's levels of function and job satisfaction go up. In coaching, you follow the trail of dreams with the goal of igniting the person to be their best. As a side-effect some kind of healing can happen."

While therapy will always have an important role in certain situations, coaching has an entirely different focus and approach. Read more on Huffington post!

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