Strive for Excellence Coaching
My clients want to have exceptional lives!
How ready are you to take steps towards having and exceptional life ?
They may have no idea how to get there or what it will look like, but they have that deep desire for something awesome.
In coaching, you can expect me to challenge you to show up in a big, big way. I believe that deep inside you want to be challenged. You want to be given the opportunity to be a leader, to feel powerful, to show that you have the ability to do things.
You will get these opportunities.
What is it inside of you that wants to come out? What is the expression that is rotting inside you? What is the story that you want to tell? The song that you want to sing?
As poet David Whyte asks,
Now looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
window toward
the mountain
presence
of everything
that can be,
what urgency
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
and spread
its branches
against a future sky?
Cultivating the Real You!
I believe the most important thing for your future is to Trust Yourself so you can use your abilities to create an extra-ordinary life for yourself.
Our focus will not be grades, memorizing content, standardized tests, or toughing it out because you are supposed to.
But, don't for a second think that I will help you justify giving up, being lazy, indecisive, or apathetic. Quite the opposite.
Expect to be challenged, uncomfortable, and pushed beyond what you think you are capable of. My coaching is for people who want to have exceptional lives.
I care deeply about learning.
I care deeply about people. I care about your character, how you treat people, what you are passionate about and how you feel.
I care deeply about cultivating the confidence and perseverance to learn what you need to learn when you need to learn it.
I care deeply about excellence and doing things well.
I care deeply about determination.
I care deeply about having fun, playing, and laughing.
I like failure, because it shows that you are pushing the edges of what is possible.
I like failure, because it provides information about what you can improve, change, and learn.
I care deeply about you becoming healthy, happy, passionate, successful, and playful.
I offer an alternative to the existing structures. The existing structures are not providing what you need. I happen to think that when you are connected to your passion and have the skills necessary to use them, that the external measures of grades, content knowledge, test scores, and ability to dig in when you need to (even if you don't love what you are doing) will be positively impacted, but the focus of my coaching and work is on internal measures.
I offer coaching and programs that allow you to learn:
to Know Yourself
to Trust Yourself
Communication
Creativity
Empathy
Resilience
Perseverance
Excellence
Sustainable and Long Term Focus
In my work, short term fun and easy solutions are irrelevant. The only kind of change that matters is one that moves you towards long term health, happiness, passion, success, and play.
I am committed to your using the skills you learn from me for the rest of your life. If they finish and say "that was really, really fun" but never use the skills, I will not be satisfied.
Taking skills used in a street performance and applying them to life is what matters.
Learning how to deal with uncertainty and confusion in the backcountry must transfer into powerfully dealing with uncertainty and confusion in our daily lives.
How my coaching program works
We meet regularly each month to plan and strategize, discuss specific steps for implementation, troubleshoot problems, and brainstorm.
- Eight weekly individual 60-minute sessions. Typically, we meet by phone or on Skype, but in-person meetings are available if you live near Portland, Oregon.
- Laser calls between scheduled meetings. Stuck trying to accomplish something? Frustrated at something you just tried out? Want to celebrate a success? Just need some encouragement? You can call between scheduled meetings to discuss these and other specific issues.
- E-mail and text support. Did you notice a breakthrough moment? Do you have an idea of something you want to try, but want some reassurance first? If it’s not super urgent, just email me, let me know what you need and when you need it and I’ll respond, often on the same day.
- Powerful requests and “home play” for you to work on between our sessions. You’ll be exploring ideas and ways of being, as well as working your daily practices into your life.
With your commitment, at the end of the four months, you will have taken substantive steps towards being a powerful parent. You will also feel a genuine, stronger sense of belief in yourself. You will have a powerful idea of how to support your kid in living an amazing life.
Your investment
The Strive for Excellence coaching program is for teens and young adults who want to make a difference in their life and are committed to doing so.
The program costs $599 for the package of 8 individual sessions. I accept Visa/MC through PayPal or checks and even cash. Plus you’ll need a copy of Launch Your Life (my book) and CD $20.
This coaching isn’t intended for those who want to make minor improvements. This is meant to be an investment that will pay for itself many times over in love, opportunity, and peace of mind. It is also intended to prevent misguided and uninformed investments in further education, dead ends, and big ugly mistakes.

If you want to feel like you are really living your life’s purpose, and connected to your family, then I want to help you make it happen.
My best to you and your family.
Sign up now below and I will send you a form to fill out and complete to get started. If you are looking for the special Parent-Kid coaching package, it's here.
Playing Huge.
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