eLifePlans.com Unveils Web-Based Life Plan Community and Professional Coaching

Personal and Professional Development Company
Improves its Web-Based Life Planning and Goal Setting Tool


Pella, IA — May 15, 2007 — eLifePlans.com today announced their entrance into the personal and professional development arena with their new life plan community and personal coaching services designed exclusively for setting, managing, and reaching personal and professional goals.

Using eLifePlans.com's proven and patent-pending goal-setting and life planning wizard process, individuals can set goals in eight different life spheres, from losing weight, to hitting a sales quota, to buying a house, to sailing around the world, or anything they might desire to achieve, inside a completely balanced Life Plan. eLifePlans.com first helps individuals to create a comprehensive plan by using the eLife Plan Wizard. This Wizard process guides each person through the Life Planning process and speeds the development of a well-balanced Plan. eLifePlans.com then helps individuals to accomplish their goals by providing focus and tracking with user-defined reminders, tips, and recommended Action Steps designed to help the success-minded person accomplish that goal.

"Our goal as a company is to help other people accomplish their goals," says David Bush, CEO of eLifePlans.com. "What's been missing from Goal Setting until now is something that brings all your goals together into a Life Plan and makes goal-setting fun and easy to do. Goal-setting isn't about making a promise to yourself on New Year's, it's about staying focused on the big picture during the dozens of little decisions you make every day. With the help of technology, users can benefit from having their goals and action plans in an easy to find, accessible location whenever they check their email."

Designed for both personal and professional use, eLifePlans.com balances ease-of-use with no-nonsense effectiveness. "We've made goal-setting very approachable for people who've never written down a goal in their life," says Bush. "Meanwhile, we've designed this to be a serious productivity tool with immediate benefits to professionals, employees, managers, and entire corporations."

eLifePlans.com is based on a unique goal-setting method that was refined over several years of live seminars with tens of thousands of participants. eLifePlans.com adapted this process into a Web-based format and then invented dozens of additional features, resulting in a product unlike anything that has ever existed online or offline.

"If there are things you'd like to accomplish, then we believe this is, without question, the best tool available to help you get them done," says Bush. "Calendars and day planners are great for remembering appointments and avoiding schedule conflicts, but they utterly fail to put things into a longer-term context. If you want to accomplish a goal, it takes a comprehensive and structured approach— it takes a plan. eLifePlans.com helps you break down big complex tasks into manageable, bite-sized tasks. Then, after this planning process, we remind you about the things you've asked us to remind you about, and we constantly keep you focused on your longer-term objective, a balanced and successful life."

The best feature eLifePlans.com offers is the innovative client-focused coaching program where a subscriber can work one on one with an eLifePlans.com’s Certified eLife Coach. These “eLife Coaches” are trained professionals who are dedicated to helping individuals develop a strategic eLife Plan and help every subscriber to realize their fullest potential. “Our coaching process greatly differs from other coaching programs that are on the market. Unlike these ‘one size fits all’ coaching programs, eLife Plan coaches start with the client’s personal dreams and ideas and then develop a strategic plan of action to achieve them.”
Offering a superior life planning system, online support and community connecting opportunities, and innovative coaching services, eLife Plans packs a comprehensive package for success-minded entrepreneurs, professionals, managers, and influential leaders.

To contact eLifePlans visit www.eLifePlans.com or call 866-354-3348.

Expanding Territories

Dear Friend,

Hello. I have expanded my ministry to include personal life and business development coaching and I wanted to let you know of the types of clients I can effectively serve. I also wanted to ask you to partner with me in the development of my coaching practice. In this blog, you will find materials on the nature of coaching, but briefly, as a personal life coach, I confidently:

1) Help my clients set larger, better, more rewarding personal and professional goals.

2) Speak with each client at least weekly to help him or her strategize and take action.

3) Ask more of my clients than they might ask of themselves. It is a privilege for me to help hold the client’s agenda and partner with him or her as an advocate, champion, cheerleader and sounding board.

As you know, I have been a pastor for the last 20 years and I continue to love and enjoy every part of ministry. By adding this coaching service and weaving in the coaching success principles, structures and strategies, I can serve people far more than ever before. I am really excited about this.

I am currently working with five coaching clients and my goal is to be working with 15 clients. I do not advertise, but rely instead on my current clients and friends like you, for referrals.

I am most effective in working with the following types of people:
1) The Entrepreneur who wants to plow into new territories, break new ground and desires expansion and growth quickly.

2) The Dreamer who seeks clarity, simplicity and significance in endeavors with his or her personal life, family, business and church.

3) The Leader or Director who needs to take his or her organization to the next level.

Coaching packages run about $600 per month for a weekly telephone session and each client spends about three months with me as they begin to see success. Of course I include e-mails, faxing and brief hot-spot conversations at no additional charge. Each client has access to my direct telephone line.

Will you help? I am asking that you keep me in mind when you run across those who might benefit from my service. Also, if you know someone who you think would benefit from coaching – perhaps even yourself – I am happy to offer a complimentary discovery coaching session to help.

Just call 616-935-9917 or email mike@centermarkcoaching.com to set up that free initial session. I’m thrilled to serve you and your friends!

Most Sincerely with thanks,

Mike

You simply must believe more!

"You are not here merely to make a living.

You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply,

with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

You are here to enrich the world,

and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand."

- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

Why Should I Hire A Coach?

It’s important to recognize why people hire a coach.

People either want to:

· reach a goal

· make a change or

· solve a problem and they feel a coach can assist them.

They seek a partner to support them with whatever they’re working on and to motivate them beyond what they can accomplish by themselves. Many of my clients place large challenges upon themselves, and by hiring a coach they increase their chances of solving their problems, reducing the risk, and succeeding more rapidly.

Coaching for focus, balance and direction

How can coaching help you?

You probably have seen the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown is target practicing with his bow and arrows. He’d shoot the arrow and it would hit the fence, then he’d go and draw a target around it. And Lucy says, “You don’t do target practice that way, Charlie Brown. You draw the target first, then shoot the arrow.” To which Charlie responds: “I know that, but if you do it this way, you never miss.”

You might know people who are missing a lot. Missing a lot at home, at work, at church, or at play. It’s like you’re not really living, you’re just existing. Coaching can make a great difference!

I coach busy executives who want to get home in time for dinner with their family.

I coach entrepreneurs who have too many good ideas.

I love to help people gain clarity on what they want to do. I will tell them things no one else will.

I believe it was Will Rogers who said, “Even if you’re on the right track you’re going to get run over if you just sit there.”
It’s great work, and I love it. In fact, I offer a free coaching session to anyone who requests it. Contact me at mike@centermarkcoaching.com

Our Greatest Fear

Nelson Mandela 1984, Inaugural Speech
Our Greatest Fear

Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

BRINGING CHANGE

Helping individuals and businesses change is “both absolutely essential and incredibly difficult” according to an article in Harvard Business Review (January 2007). “Human nature being what it is, fundamental change is often resisted mightily” by the people who need it most. In contrast leaders, counselors and coaches who successfully bring change “do eight things right and do them in the right order:

Help people see the need for change; develop a sense of urgency so the status quo seems worse or more dangerous than launching into the unknown.

Connect with others. In business or churches, for example, change comes best when there is a powerful coalition working together – including the organization’s leader.

Create a clear, compelling vision of how things can be different. Change rarely occurs when vision is lacking, blurry, or too complicated.

Remind people about the vision repeatedly. When the vision fades momentum dies.

Identify and get rid of the obstacles that prevent change.

Plan for short term wins on the way to ultimate long-term lasting change. Celebrate intermediate changes when they come.

Don’t stop the process or declare victory too soon. “Premature victory celebrations kill momentum. And then the powerful forces associated with tradition take over.

Reinforce the changes. This involves emphasizing that “this new way is how we do things now.

Have you found your PACE in life?

PACE

Finding yourself empty at the end of the day? Are you taking time to PACE yourself so that you might have maximum impact? Ask the following questions of yourself and I believe you'll find the energy zone to make the difference you're desiring!

What are my Priorities?

What are my Attitudes towards these priorties?

What will my Commitment be?

How will I keep my Enthusiasm at a continual high?

A simple man believes anything,

but a prudent man gives thought to his steps.

Proverbs 14:15

The Next Step for you

National data says that Corporate America spends over 15-20 billion dollars annually on training--but less than 5% of that translates into performance improvement.

So much of the corporate response in trying to build people is about sending them to some kind of skill training or seminar that lasts for X amount of time-- in hopes that people are going to be substantially better simply because of the experience that shoves data and information at them in a one time sit down seminar.

In Personal Life Coaching, we begin with some basic ideas. First of all we believe that everybody's a person of influence and everyone has a great potential to effect their environment for the better.

To get at that potential it takes a partnership and a process. Coaches have some competencies that will add value in the process. We think you have some ideas and experiences—and we come along side of you and help you think about what’s most important for you? What are some "next step" strategies that work for you?

You were never meant to try and do this alone--you were meant to do this with people who really care, people who can really assist you.