Path of Purpose Coaching - Articles Written in 2008

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Founded by Helaine Iris in 2001, Path of Purpose Coaching is a premier life coaching company that develops and delivers top-quality information products and life coaching services to help women achieve greater business success while living a more complete and balanced life.

"Your work with me today revealed tremendous skill Helaine. My heart is filled with gratitude, not only for your ability to speak to both the depth and breadth of my experience, but to guide me through an issue that could have completely encumbered my progress. With you on belay, how could I not but dare, once again, to leap empty-handed into the Void? With many thanks. "

Rev. Cheryl D. Harrell LICSW, Vermont

"Helaine's coaching has been invaluable to me as a solo business owner looking to grow my financial planning practice. Whether I need a sounding board, some outside perspective, specific "how-to" advice, a little understanding, or perhaps even a kick in the pants, she always recognizes and provides exactly what is needed to help me get "unstuck" and back moving full speed ahead in the right direction."

Sherrill St Germain, Financial Planner, Hollis, NH

"Helaine provided me with a breadth of practical advice, including keeping and sticking to a schedule, prioritizing, creating a business plan, and maintaining a balance in my work and my personal life. She made special efforts to provide thoughtful, intelligent recommendations for my website to help me attract customers and establish a more effective business foundation. Perhaps most importantly, she helped me to see the importance of having financial goals...

Her encouragement, enthusiasm, and interest in my success and well-being was invaluable to me, especially in a time of real need. I continue to use the strategies I learned while working with her, and continue to rely on many of the pieces of advice she provided to me throughout our sessions."

Michelle Lewis, Free Lance Writer, Maine

"Helaine has taught me to look at the challenges in my life and learn what can be gained from them. How can a negative situation be turned around? When things don't go as I'd like in my life, I now try to find the positive or at least the lesson to be learned from that situation. I am a new and improved person with a new outlook on life thanks to Helaine. I am so grateful to have received this opportunity!"

Suerae Stein, Photo-Graphic Design, Spofford, NH

"Helaine, you are a gift!! You have truly brought evolution to every facet of my life. I am often overwhelmed with gratitude that you are in my life! Thank you for sharing your remarkable ability to see the positive attributes in absolutely any situation. Thank you for graciously accepting and working with me exactly the way I am at any given moment, without judgment. And thank you for the simple yet extraordinary tools you share throughout the Path of Purpose process. Thank you, thank you, and thank you!!!!!!!!"

Sigi Koko, Architect, Bethlehem, PA

Articles written in 2008

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Three Steps To Financial Fitness: Are You Out of Shape or in the Zone? (May) - Your financial fitness is probably the last thing you want to talk about - yet, most likely the biggest thing on your mind. Whether you've got enough in your bank account or you're struggling to make ends meet, becoming and staying financially fit is essential to feeling both peaceful, powerful and self realized. Notice - I didn't say "having money" was essential, I said being financially fit, in other words, being empowered and living in integrity around your finances is what will create the peaceful, yet powerful life you long for.

Do You REALLY Value Your Customers? (April) - I just had an unpleasant experience with one of my online vendors and I'm steaming mad. It's a classic example of what NOT to do if you care about your customers and want to keep them. Long story short, it was time to renew an annual service I've been using for many years. Typically, it's a simple, automatic process; I get an email saying I've been renewed - done.

The Rules of Goal Setting (March) - Answer this question for yourself right now: Are you happy and attaining the things you've envisioned for your business and life? If so, congratulations, you're doing something right - if not keep reading. There are certainly many factors and circumstances that determine whether you get what you want out of life or not. Some of them you don't have control over, some of them you do. Goal setting - more specifically, learning HOW to reach your goals can be the most useful skill you can learn in order to maximize what you can control and get what you want.

Vision, Mission and Purpose (February) - Every new year brings with it the opportunity to reevaluate and reawaken your goals and dreams for your business and life. One of the best ways I know to do that is to revisit the vision, mission and purpose of your business. For most businesses, the first quarter of the year can be a quiet time, making it ideal to go back to basics. Here is an excerpt from my book: Small Business Success for Women that will guide you through revising, renewing, or newly creating what should be the foundation you build your success on.

Life Beyond Time (January) - "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." - Emily Dickenson Why is it - no matter how well you manage (or think you manage) your time there never seems to be enough? We all say- time goes by too fast. Actually, what I've realized is that time doesn't go by any faster than it ever has - it's just me getting older - and, every day that goes by, I feel it more and more.