Wayne Pratt – Certified Life Coach
So, you sold your business, got on the wrong side of a merger, or someone gave you a gold watch and a banker’s box for your belongings. Either way, if you are in relatively good heath, feel you still have something to contribute, and you have already done the golfing, overeating and being underfoot thing, it may be time for the second act!
In the theatre the second act is where the plot develops, the characters have all been introduced, and it time to get on with the play. Now the good news! If you a second actor you may be starting with some advantages. The house may be paid for, (or getting there) the kids are probably through school, or at least on their way, and you get to finally figure out what you want to be when you grow up.
Let’s start at the beginning, there are vocations and avocations. They may be similar for you, (they may not be) One way to look at it: A vocation is a job or career, an avocation is more of a calling. To put it simply, if you didn’t have to work to buy the groceries, what would you do? You may have an answer, you may not, or it is only a glimmer right now, but let me assure you, it may be the most important thought process you have undertaken in a while. Here is where I ask the coaching question, if you knew you could not fail, what would you attempt? And at a risk of sounding trite, you can’t fail! You can have setbacks, maybe even roadblocks, but at the end of the day, as I have said before, everything is either a win or a teaching exercise. If you fail again and again and don’t learn anything, you are the target for a different blog post!
We will go into this with more detail later but get started.
Get your thoughts on paper. Not your phone, not your IPad, Paper! Study after study has proven that putting it on paper unlocks the creative part of the brain that is necessary to work at it best.
Don’t make a manuscript, or a hundred page business plan, just get your thought down.
Bullet points, big letters poor grammar what ever, there is time to make it pretty later.
About Wayne Pratt
Wayne has been speaking for nearly twenty years now, and several years ago became a Certified Life Coach. More recently, in May of 2020, after years of study, he became a Jack Canfield Certified Life Coach.
He has addressed audiences as diverse as credit unions, school children, small business people, even mental health care professionals, and Sunday school teachers. Universally, they wanted to laugh and learn something.
Whether it is working on how the changes in the economy might help instead of hinder you, or if you are feeling the brochure (life) promised you more, the people Wayne has coached and spoken to assure him that “I left them better than I found them”.
Wayne live in Kingston with his wife, Elizabeth, raised an amazing daughter Bethany, play with computers, argue theology, and champion causes which make life better for the mentally ill.
Wayne’s New Book
Wayne’s new book, “31 Days” provides a month’s worth of thoughts, tips, and techniques to help you better process and enjoy your month and year.
In over ten years of blogging, Wayne has curated his best posts to help you get and enjoy where you want to go, be and do.
With over thirty original, insightful yet humorous drawings, Ophelia Verk graphically illustrates each post to powerfully bring home the points Wayne makes.
I have been speaking for nearly 20 years now, and several years ago I became a Certified Life Coach. More recently, in May of 2020, after years of study, I became a Jack Canfield Certified Life Coach.
I have addressed audiences as diverse as Credit Unions, school children, small business people, even mental health care professionals, and Sunday School Teachers. Universally, they wanted to laugh and learn something.
Whether it is working on how the changes in the economy might help instead of hinder you, or if you are feeling the brochure (life) promised you more, the people I have coached and spoken to assure me that I left them better than I found them.
I live in Kingston with my loving wife, Elizabeth, raised my amazing daughter Bethany, play with computers, argue Theology, and champion causes which make life better for the mentally ill.