Carolyn Bates
Masters in Personal Life Coaching, Certified by The International Coaching Federation, Published Author and Columnist, Workshop Leader, Certified for MAPP Personality & Career Interest Assessment, Certified for PRINT Unconscious Motivator Assessment, BS
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Baby Boomers in Transition, Life After 50, Successful Retirement, Dealing with Adult Children and Aging Parents, Finding a Bridge Career, Caregiver Issues, Certified MAPP Personality & Career Interest Assessment, Certified PRINT Unconscious Motivator Assessment Expert
Carolyn Bates Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Baby Boomers in Transition, Planning for Retirement and Life after 50, Dealing with Adult Children and Aging Parents, Issues around Caregiving
- Best Sellers
- Caregivers The Manual, Crisis Now What, I Own a Business - Stop the Train I want a Life, Just One More Stitch - Time Management for Creatives
- Career Focus
- Personal Life Coach, Author, Workshop & Seminar Leader, Speaker
- Affiliation
- University of Texas/Austin, Coach U, Coachville, The International Coaching Federation, Houston Coaches
* Are you 50 - 75 yrs. old and wondering what's next?
* Is this the time to retire or just do something different?
* How do you retire successfully?
* Do you spend your days never having time for your Life?
* How do you take care of your own family, your parents
and yourself, all at the same time?
For the past ten years, Carolyn Bates has been intensely researching “all of our Baby Boomer” questions and concerns. She is a passionate Professional Life Coach dedicated to writing books and e-courses, Coaching her one-on-one clients and giving workshops/seminars on her “Sandwich Generation”. How to prepare for successful life changes and Retirement.
She has a full two year masters and certification in Personal Life Coaching, is a member of Coach U, Coachville and The International Coaching Federation. Carolyn serves on hospital and Coaching association boards and continues to publish books, workbooks and e-courses, plus many articles focused on the challenges of balancing the responsibilities of raising children, caregiving for aging parents and the steps to take to find your passion in a “bridge career”, Retirement and even the final stages of life.
She is one of the most sought after Life Coaches for either one-on-one coaching relationships or workshops, as her own motivation and passion is to empower those who want to actively make the years from 50 on, the most rewarding.
Coaching Life Design's clients live around the world as Carolyn offers coaching over the phone and through email, unless a client prefers some of her other options. Confidentiality is maintained, her clients feel more comfortable in their own environments, session times are easier to schedule - all of this helping the client to get to the heart of their challenges quicker and to find pathways to solution.
Visit her website at www.coachinglifedesign.com for a free Coaching session, complimentary newsletter subscription, expanding products catalog and direct contact information. Be sure to also visit Carolyn's blog at www.coachinglifedesign.com/blog for timely articles!
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Did life just change?
It’s the morning after you’ve been to the doctor’s office, you have high blood pressure. Your “youth” is over. It’s the morning after you played three days of golf in a row; your “take-off” knee is double its size. You know that it’s time to schedule the replacement; you’re not thirty anymore. It’s the morning after you’ve just moved from your big family home to your new condo, in another city, closer to the children. Boxes to unpack; new friends to make. It’s the morning after the Memorial Service and all of your family has gone home. You’re on your own.
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You aren't what you think!
A common phrase used in Coaching and therapy is experiencing an “Ah Ha” moment. A thought occurs to you that shifts your universe, you get a different perspective. A basic value that you live by is changed or altered. Everything concerned with your life, relationships, faith or even who you think you are can be effected. It happens in an instant. The roller coaster just reached the top of the ride and then, you just took off! This was mine, yesterday.
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Taking care of my loved one is killing me
Home care or dealing with assisted living, is one of the most difficult roles any of us can play. Physically exhausting, mentally confusing and frustrating, the demands of care giving can become overwhelming. Strokes, paralysis, Alzheimer’s or extended illness; these carry long term challenges and tolerations. Are you taking care of a spouse who has a major illness, a sick child or your aging parents? Are you the primary caregiver, even though you have siblings and others who could help? Are you living in another city and dealing with the issues of long distance caregiving?
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4 Steps to Finding Courage
We all have had to face very difficult challenges, make life changing decisions or pull our boot straps up and pick a direction. Baby Boomers, those over fifty, are beginning to face the onset of creating their future and dealing with retirement issues. This is new territory for this historically huge group of consumers. They are living longer than the generations before and are known for thinking outside of “the box”. The last stages of their lives will not be typical. They are the “Leaders of the Pack”, willing to look at life in non-traditional ways.
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Living Life, but Missing Life
The Adrenaline Lifestyle, Adrenaline Addiction, can be very difficult to acknowledge and to balance. It’s a form of compulsive behavior, sometimes leading to substance abuse and depression. A busy lifestyle can be compelling because society seems to admire and promote this. People who are perceived as popular. People who are the president, chairman, organizer. People who always seem so busy. People who are invited to everything. People who seem to be able to balance many plates in the air at once.
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Are you who you look like?
“She can’t possibly be that smart, she’s too pretty.” “He’s too old to think he can do that.” “She wasn’t raised to really work.” “Doesn’t he know that he’s handicapped; there’s no way he’ll be able to get there.” “My years won’t let me try that.” “I’ll stand out too much if I do or say that.”
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Not your Same New Year's Resolution
No more New Year’s resolutions!! No more thinking about projects to finish, exercise classes to start or diets to loose that same ten pounds. Baby Boomers, parents, career professionals; we all strive for better health, less stress, being more organized. A great solution for a Great New Year is to clear the air and to forget about you, start thinking about others. To do this, you have to put two things in place.
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Peace + Joy = Meaning of Life
So here we are once again celebrating Christmas. How fast this seems to come around, especially the older I get. Peace and Joy, these are the tools for a meaningful life. I wish you PEACE. Peace in your heart, with your families and friends. Peace in your mind, especially looking toward the future. I wish you JOY. Joy to continually fill your heart. Your mind thinking of joyful things to do with those you love and care about, giving you a reason to get up everyday. This is truly one of the secrets to creating the memories that slow down the passing of time.
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Got the Holiday Blues
Are your holidays filled with loneliness? Do the days just feel like a lot of work? Is the meaning of the holidays lost? Has this just happened now that your children are out of the house and maybe you have been on your own for awhile? Holidays are definitely one of the most difficult times of the year, especially as we live out the last quarter of our lives.
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Caregiving, an emotional roller coaster?
Caregiving is definitely one of the hardest roles any of us can play, especially as Baby Boomers. The constant variety of emotions attached to it and all of the “shoulds”, “why don’t you’s” and “why aren’t you’s” that keep bombarding our decision making can often be overwhelming. Everyone concerned, you, other family members, close friends and the patient, has to deal with their own fear, anxiety, confusion, guilt, helplessness, frustration, depression, loss and powerlessness.
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Fun! Where is This and Why Do I Need It? Part # 3
Life balance, emotional health, reducing stress, these are all current topics for everyone, not just Baby Boomers and those over 40. One of the most effective antidotes to these realities of life today is to create memories, especially with those you love and care about. FUN? Always a good thing. Be creative!! Stop following all the rules. Stop thinking about all the things you "should" be doing. Don’t limit yourself with what people say you're too old to do. This really is your life and this really is the only chance you get at it. Re-create yourself - again.
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Now That I Know Why I Want More Fun, What Would Be Fun? Part #2
Now that I know why I want more Fun, what would be Fun? How can I have Fun? What do you stand for? What are your values? Some of mine are that I want to cherish each day and have great times with friends and my family. To do this, I have to take the time to make the plans. Who do I want to see or call on the phone, maybe an old friend or a grandchild? Look around at all of the activities that are available – places to see, things to do – not just within a five minute drive. Look at everything that is an hour or so away.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Carolyn Bates
You and I form a partnership to look at what you need in your life today, what you want for the future and how do you get there.
Baby Boomers, The Sandwich Generation, Bridge Careers, Successful Retirement, Dealing with Aging Parents & Adult Children = We are the "Leaders of the Pack"
Coaching is my passion. The success of my clients, my reward.
Contacting Carolyn Bates
Coaching Life Design
Carolyn C. Bates
www.coachinglifedesign.com
www.coachinglifedesign.com/blog
carolyn@coachinglifedesign.com
830-598-8961
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How to get started
I am a strong, motivated Coach. My clients have reached the bottom of a pit, the end of a rope. They are ready to change their lives once and for all. I"ll help you to find out what you are tolerating, who and what is stealing your energy and time and how to eliminate that.
Coaching Life Design maintains a world wide clientele as the coaching takes place over the phone and through email support. Session times are easy to schedule. You can remain in your own comfortable environment. We can get to the heart of the matter quicker, while maintaining confidentiality. You can honestly look at what your life is today. You can investigate the possibilities of your dreams and future and, then, we can create a path to achieve your goals. We'll have fieldwork between our sessions, so that you will always be moving forward to accountability for sustainable change.
Coaching Life Design strives to offer a variety of coaching options, a continually expanding e-store of books, workbooks, complimentary articles, newsletter subscription and direct contact information for Carolyn. We provide space for short email questions answered within 24 hours and a FREE coaching session to "test the water" to see how we might help you.
The amount of time and money you committ to coaching will be determined by how actively you participate. The whole goal of entering into a coaching relationship is to move the client forward, so the client is in control and directing the pace of coaching. Coaching Life Design www.coachinglifedesign.com is committed to those 50 yrs. and older who actively want to work toward the life they desire.