Lunch Date with Beth Dargis-Life Coach

Last month, during my coaching call with Keith Ferrazzi, one of the suggestions he made was that I find someone in this area who is doing what I want to do and work with them. At the time, I wasn't aware of anyone in this area who was doing coaching. Then, it came to my attention that one of my clients, Beth Dargis, is a Life Coach. I asked her to have lunch with me this past Tuesday to discuss what her business is like and about the choice of a coaching academy and the possibility of having her serve as my coach in the process.
Beth has actually been coaching since the mid-90's, long before much was known of coaching. Her background has been in communication, graphic design, and publishing. Beth is also a self-taught web designer. Beth has been steadily building her coaching business at home while raising her family. Since most people in this area have never heard of coaching or the term Life Coach, when asked about her services, Beth just tells people she helps others simplify their lives. Her focus is in the area of decluttering, time management, organizational skills, and simplification techniques.
If you click on my links under Beth Dargis-Life Coach you will find all the information about her business and the opportunity to sign up for her free tips on simplifying your life. Beth also offers an online 30-day course for a one time fee of $9.95 aimed at teaching these life simplifying skills. Personally, I have signed up for this and I am looking forward to working with Beth towards getting my life into a more even pace. Those of you who know me know that I do not like it when life is boring, when I'm not learning things, or doing things. So, I tend to get a lot of irons in the fire at once. Usually at some point I end up getting over scheduled and overwhelmed and then I have to go through the process of weeding things out again to maintain sanity. This is a cycle that I am hoping Beth can give me clarity about and a more effective way of managing myself. Having said that, I bet a lot of you will be praying for Beth since she has her work cut out for her trying to get me simplified! Good luck Beth! This will be a real test of your coaching abilities!
Beth was very encouraging as I told her about my future plans for career development. Beth gave me a book as a gift. The book was called CoachStart and it is all about how to start and build a coaching business. This book was written by David Wood, a pioneer in the field of coaching, who owned a coaching school and now is the CEO of a company that provides coaching resource materials. On top of everything else Beth does for her own business, she also works with David Wood at his company, SolutionBox. She was generous enough to invite me to call her anytime for advice and she invited me to a presentation she is making this coming week in Zeeland. Beth will be giving a presentation on time management at the Howard Miller Public Library on Tuesday, April 24 at 6pm. It is her desire to make more connections locally since her business up to this point has been web-based, meaning on a more global scale. Beth would like to start contributing of her services locally and one way she is making others aware of her coaching is by doing these informational meetings. I will be posting those to this blog whenever they come up. I will be going to the time management presentation this Tuesday and I hope some of you will join me. This is information we can all use! As John Tesh would say, "Intelligence for your life."
I want to thank Beth Dargis for her help and support. and all the useful coaching she gave me about coach training and how to get started.I am looking forward to working with her as my coach and also in supporting her efforts to get out there in our own community and make a difference for people by assisting them in improving their lives! Go, Beth! Be sure to check out her website. She has done a beautiful job creating a site that is understandable and yes, decluttered and simplified!
Here's to simple pleasures!