User talk:Bill Dueease

Life Coaching
First off, it is a pleasure to meet you. Second, apologies for presuming that All the material added was possible self-promotion. Generally speaking, it's a bad idea to posy links to any business you are a part of since other editors my miscontsrue this. However, it can be done if the material is on point and worthy of inclusion. Some of your materials seems to be very worthy of at least being mentioned

Here's how we can include the material you would like:

Leave me a smessage on my talk page with a link to the article you wrote about the 4 keys to selecting a Life Coach. I will work a sentence or two or three into theat section of the article saying roughly that: "Many coaches themselves have been attempting to create a set of guidelines to help people find an apppropriate life coach.  To that end, Bill Dueease of ______ has formulated a list of four key principles to guide prospective cleints.  Those principles are______ etc. and so on. "  then, I link to your article with proper referenceing style.

You like? If so, leave me the linky and I'll hop to it! Hopefully, Mission will be accomplished. If you can link me to any other good reference material, please do. Ideally, it should not be on a website promoting one coach or group of coaches but in a neutral setting. if not, that's OK, I can work with articles posted on business sites too. We just have to be careful not to promote any one coach over another. Some coaches come in and delete any and all references to people they don't like or just to see to it that they are the only coach listed. Material of interest to me would be articles that discuss the advanatges of choosing coaching over therapy and when a person should NOT choose a coach over therapy. Those types of references would add a lot of weight.

Thanks and welcome to wikipedia. Don't worry - I had lots of stuyf deleted and reverted too when I was new. You'll get the hang of it and are always welcome to ask questions on my talk page. I am a rational skeptic but.. I detest skeptical activism. My background is as an anthropologist and folklorist. I believe people have a right to believe what they will and that such beliefs are interesting, notable and worthy of documentation. By the way, I type way too fast and make lots of typos on talk pages, hopefully not in articles!LiPollis 21:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick response and your understanding of my rookiness. I also appreciate you efforts to find a useful and reasonable solution. I sit in the cat bird seat of knowing, for lots of reasons, what Wikipedia is trying to educate others on. But as you can imagine, I was a bit spooked. Your response has been a big help. Thanks.

Your proposal sounds very reasonable and I do have a web page that clearly discusses these four keys that I would like linked. However, I wish to remain in the spirit of "be careful not to promote any one coach over another" as the web page does encourage readers to call TCC. I'm presenting the link here for you to research (http://www.findyourcoach.com/life-coachkeys.htm) If you wish, I can create a more neutral page as part of the findyourcoach network that only includes the four keys only.

You also mentioned comparing coaching to therapy and other human improvement processes. I wrote a detailed comparison of coaching and consulting (the most frequently confused process with coaching) which you can also read at: http://www.findyourcoach.com/consultant-lifecoach.htm

I await your response, and can appreciate the typing issues as I hunt and peck along myself on a strange keyboard.