Top 6 Critical Personal Life Coaching Services to Consider for Your Career, Your Earnings Potential, Your Life

As you move through your professional career, through the growth and maturity of your family, and through all that this life throws at you, it helps to have wise council along the way – especially in those critical times where your mental and physical balance may be disrupted. For some, advice from a spouse or family member is enough; for others guidance and council from a trusted friend may do the trick. However, for those particularly difficult and complex life or career challenges, those that truly threaten your longer term earnings ability and perhaps even your mental health – seek professional, experienced advice. This is exceptionally important during major transitions – when laid off, once your children are finally in school, when seeking a career change, or during any other significant life event. Following are 6 Critical Types of Personal Coaching Services to consider to repair, rebuild or re-energize your career, health and earnings potential.

Personal Life Coaching
Without self-confidence, we tend to make choices based on fear instead of hope. A person who lacks confidence may have a stronger tendency towards self-destructive behavior, and create a more stressful environment. You might work at a job you hate. You may allow yourself to get deep in debt. You may find yourself moving from one bad relationship to another. Without confidence, you don’t allow yourself to pursue your dream, make the changes that matter, relieve the stress that inhibits your success.

A Personal Life Coach, for example found through the services of Janie Behr, will help empower motivated individuals to overcome obstacles that hold them back from having a meaningful, productive and ultimately successful life. She partners with her clients in a personal coaching relationship that will allow them to gain insight and develop an action plan, helping them create a life of empowerment, purpose and happiness. Through these life coaching and stress management processes, you develop new ways to problem solve, achieve a higher degree of self-awareness, and create improved personal and professional abilities. Read more about “Personal Life Coaching services“, from Louisville, KY…

Executive Coaching
Business today (especially on the Internet) is fast paced and dynamic, and requires constant learning in order to keep up with the demands of customers in local, regional and the global marketplace. Leaders must continually grow and develop skills to keep up with new challenges and new challengers. However, for many, there simply is no time in the schedule for development, and the days of executive retreats and seminars are over in this ecomony. Executives have learned that the incremental gain from traditional training is not worth the investment of time away from the office.

Unlike general training, Executive Coaching focuses on a leader’s specific development needs, and addresses those needs through one on one learning. Executive coaching deals with real time issues and real work situations, tailored to quickly and effectively address today’s challenges. The coach’s role, for example found through the services of James Bowles and Associates, is to assist clients in developing the insight, skills, and techniques needed to achieve business success. Coaching achieves all of this with only the investment of a few hours a month, and builds accountability that lasts past the coaching engagement – resulting in sustained improvement, increased opportunities and earning potential. Read more about these “Washington DC Executive Coaching services“…

Career-at-Home Coaching
Particularly for women and moms who are returning to workforce, after having children, following the advice and counsel of other successful Career-at-Home-Moms (CAHMs) is very important to finding this kind of success. Most typically consider supplemental income from Work-at-Home-Mom (WAHM) opportunities or simply leaving the children to daycare and pursuing work outside of the home – there do exist credible, amazing opportunities for professional women and moms to build or rebuild their professional careers, while working from home. But how is this achieved? How do you actually find the time, manage the right set of professional expectations, and deliver professional results while managing a household?

Guidance and coaching is available, for example through the services of Kelly McLaughlan at The Fulcrumpoint – Kelly has successfully navigated the Career-Out-of-Home to Career-at-Home-Mom lifecycle over many years, regaining her six-figure professional earnings, revitalizing a durable and quickly-growing career, and creating a work-life balance that delivers both family satisfaction and an ongoing stream of income and investments. Kelly can also provide a wealth of information regarding leveraging the Internet for building relationships, using Internet Marketing and Social Media, and growing your business and career. Read more about “Achieving Professional Balance for Women and Moms“…

Personal Exercise Coaching
Personal exercise coaches aren’t a new concept, but personalized in-home exercise coaching, delivered through the Internet via online counsel and easy to use videos, is. How do you find the time and motivation to actually start or complete exercise routines, while managing your household, working around the clock, or otherwise engaging in activities that don’t address your body’s health and fitness? This is an especially important question for women and moms, typically consumed at home with work, family management and household chores.

SqueezeItIn.com is a form of online personal exercise coaching specifically developed to deliver quick and easy home exercise and workout programs for women and moms (and anyone else, for that matter) – that’s totally, easily incorporated into daily housework and family schedules. The online video segments, and online collaborative community provide “virtual” personal exercise coaching that can quickly add up to increased energy, decreased weight and a much more positive and stress-free day – enabling you to more readily achieve your personal and financial goals. Read more about “Easy Home Workout Videos for Women and Moms” here…

Personal Nutrition and Detoxification Coaching
Personal nutrition coaches aren’t quite as common as personal exercise coaches – but can be equally important, considering the deterioration, stress and damage being done to your body and health on a daily basis. While exercise is great, exercise alone doesn’t necessarily remove all the bad chemicals, toxins and biological material left around your body over your lifetime and less-than-healthy lifestyle. A good personal nutrition coach will not only help you change your eating habits, discover new and better food and drink, and recommend the right balance of nutritional supplements as necessary – but may also be able to provide bodily detoxification alternatives and guidance, to rid and cleanse your body of chemical toxins, unwanted chemicals and other trash clogging up your system.

Over at California Earth Minerals, for example, a wealth of information, guidance and products exist that many Personal Nutrition Coaches recommend, focused on detoxifying your body with natural products including Calcium Montmorillonite, or “Bentonite Clay”. This is a natural ionic mineral that’s not only edible, but also useful for detoxification of your environment (i.e. koi ponds and landscape pools) and your pets (i.e. in edible form for animals). Read more about “Calcium Montmorillonite Ionic Mineral Detoxification and Nutrition” here…

Personal Finance, Insurance and Tax Coaching
Rounding out the Top 6 Personal Coaching Services to consider to improve your life, career and earnings potential, are personal finance, insurance and tax coaches. The types and styles of these coaches range from “advisor” to professionally-licensed “accountants” or “agents”. Your financial needs may also range from personal investments or spending, to your business or commercial insurance, investments and tax issues. The point is, consider professional coaching and guidance for any and all of these financial, insurance or tax areas, especially when changing careers or jobs, relocating, or starting a new business – or when you’ve found you and your family’s finances to be severely threatened due to personal or professional loss.

You may find significant “all-in-one” help from your local Insurance Agent, who’s typically experienced in helping clients deal with significant life changes or issues, and recommending insurance programs plus referrals or suggestions for further financial, tax or investing counsel. For example, Khalid Umerani, of NOVA Insurance Group (Allstate) in Chantilly, VA, offers truly local, personalized and family-oriented coaching and services for all insurance needs, from long-term care, to housing, personal property and medical insurance. As a Personal Financial Representative, he’s also licensed to sell financial products such as IRAs, mutual funds, variable life insurance, variable annuity products and more. This means you can take care of a wide variety of your insurance and financial needs in one place. Check with your local insurance agent, or if in the Northern Virginia, Loudoun County or Chantilly Insurance coverage area, check in with NOVA Insurance Group.

Add it up – these 6 types of Personal Life Coaching and advisory services can be extremely effective at helping you reset, renew and restart your physical, mental and financial health – for you personally, and for your family and associates. Be sure to take advantage of services like those described, for the most professional and helpful guidance available during the roughest transitions of your life and career.

For Northern Virginia SEO Services – Search Locally

Once in a while, we run across some very appropriate and well-written articles espousing local Northern Virginia SEO Services, and local searching in general.

For example, this one at ezinearticles, which states in part “Attempt to look for an SEO or Search Engine Optimization company on the internet and you’ll see a confusing list of technical services and offerings. Often times a search in your local area on Google will produce a more focused list of results, such as searching for Northern Virginia SEO Services – however knowing how to interview any SEO service company is your best option for success.”

Good guidance – searching for “Northern Virginia SEO Services” (with or without the quotes) on Google typically yields, at this time, quite a few top results from Northern Virginia’s most experienced, professional and helpful Northern Virginia Internet Marketing and Social Media Engineering firm available – i.e. KME Internet Marketing. Same with searching for related terms, like “Northern Virginia Internet Marketing” or “Northern Virginia Social Media”.

Read more about Northern Virginia SEO Services here.

Sharepoint Saturday, Baltimore, 6/25 – Blackstone Technology’s Kenneth Lo

Kenneth Lo, a Blackstone Technology Group Microsoft Sharepoint Consulting Architect, will be speaking at the upcoming “Sharepoint Saturday” conference 6/25 in Baltimore, MD. His topic “Designer or Custom Workflows – Do I Look Fat In This?” answers questions including “what is a workflow?”. “How can it be applied to automate and manage business processes?” The concepts of workflows and the different ways to quickly develop lightweight workflows that integrate with SharePoint will be covered. In addition, the pros & cons of developing workflows in SharePoint Designer, Visual Studio and K2 blackpearl will be examined.

Blackstone Technology Group’s Washington DC office provides full-service IT Consulting, Systems Integration and Program Management services to Government and Commercial clients, including the Department of Homeland Security. Blackstone Technology’s specialties range from IT Governance and SOA Integration Architectures, to Microsoft Sharepoint and CRM solutions. Blackstone Technology Group also offers Information Sharing, Management and Social Media strategies aligned with corporate or government policies.

New DC-area Business – Home Exercise Workout Videos and Community for Women & Moms – SqueezeItIn.com

While the economy continues to stagnate, and 401Ks remain mired in lethargy, this doesn’t mean you too have to grow complacent in your home exercise initiatives. The girls at SqueezeItIn.com fully understand this; they’ve launched a brand-new worldwide business out of Northern Virginia, bringing “Laundry Legs”, “Hot Squats” and “Va Va Vacuum” easy and quick home exercise/workout videos right into your kitchen, laundry room, living room.

Multitask Productions LLC is changing the way you (mainly women and moms) think about exercise by launching SqueezeItIn.com–a website and online community featuring dynamic videos of exercises and a content-rich blog designed to help you make simple, effective exercises a part of your daily routine. This is obviously a very difficult choice to make around Washington DC homes, where most women and moms are already incredibly busy with families, home-based careers, political or philanthropic pursuits, or the simple but tough grind of a Government job.

“Working out doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You can do a little at a time–as little as ten minutes, three times a day–and get results,” said co-founder and ACE certified fitness instructor Jenny Hein, “If you feel you have no time to work out, we can show you how to squeeze in several effective exercises at home, at the office, or while running errands. Our website shows you how to let life be your workout.”

We’ll point out that this service and company launch is absolutely indicative of the entrepreneurial strength and small business (especially women and mom-owned) opportunities in the Washington DC, Northern Virginia and Suburban Maryland region – hundreds of small businesses, many with focus in online-based offerings or products, continue to be created and successful each month in this area. Further evidence of this is clearly evident in the rapid expansion and demand for Washington DC online Internet Marketing and social media services, that can help rapidly build and establish online reputation, conversions and social legitimacy.

SqueezeItIn.com is also running an online exercise/workout home video contest - your amazing workout techniques integrated into typical household routines will be featured throughout the SqueezeItIn Enterprise (be a YouTube star!), as well as winning you great SqueezeItIn gear!

Green Cleaning for High-Security Commercial Facilities in DC, VA, MD

With the large numbers of highly-secure government and commercial facilities around Washington, DC, the incoming Obama administration’s renewable energy movement might have hit a snag in the cleaning department. How is “green-cleaning” easily and economically introduced into high-security environments, when so much of the traditional commercial janitorial cleaning service methods are highly wasteful, can’t or don’t necessarily follow advanced “environmentally-friendly” procedures, and depend on tough-to-find cleared cleaning staff for whom training in “green-cleaning” methods can be very expensive and difficult?

Enter Mister Kleen Maintenance Company, Inc., of Alexandria, VA. Mister Kleen has provided Washington DC janitorial contract cleaning services for both typical and atypical office or government settings, large or small, for the past 33 years. Mister Kleen provides daily commercial cleaning services for high risk facilities such as government buildings, financial institutions and high-tech buildings, and for clients who require a high degree of security in their buildings – this includes federal, state and local government agencies and their contractors.

Mister Kleen’s skilled Cleaning Technicians possess the appropriate Clearances for facilities like these, and must pass extensive background checks to ensure safety and security in these high risk facilities. Many locations require daytime cleaning and unique facility material handling procedures, and recently “green cleaning” techniques and products have been worked into Technician training and onsite cleaning procedures.

For Mister Kleen, “Green Kleening” is effective cleaning using innovative processes and products that protect health without harming the environment. From using state-of-the-art tools and equipment to using “Green Seal” certified cleaning products (whether in a highly-secure facility or not) Mister Kleen is taking a proactive approach to creating and maintaining healthy work environments for both current and incoming admininistration staff and their contractors.

St. Mary’s Celebrate 375 MD June Events and Southern MD Hotels

(Press release, St. Mary’s Division of Tourism)

St. Mary’s County’s sites and attractions produce a full line-up of events that “Celebrate 375 MD” including a Birthday Celebration Weekend.

Over forty of the county’s 2009 annual events include special “Celebrate 375” components from Sotterely’s Garden Fair in April to the National Oyster Festival in October. The five-event Birthday Weekend takes place in June.

Maryland’s 375th Birthday Celebration Weekend Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21, 2009 features five events.

River Concert World Premier. Friday, June 19, 7 p.m., St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, off Route 5.

The River Concert Series Season Opener featuring the Chesapeake Orchestra, Jeffrey Silberschlag music director, Celebrates the 375th with the world premier of a symphonic work “In Terra Maryland” by Maryland composer Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis with spoken texts culled from early writings on Maryland’s founding prepared by Jennifer Cognard-Black, Associate Professor of English, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Maestro Silberschlag says: “This work attempts to tell about the arrival of the English colonists and their thrill of seeing Maryland for the first time.”
The concert also includes Handel’s “Trumpet Spectacular” and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9- “The New World.” Free.
240-895-4107 www.riverconcertseries.com

Maryland’s Birthday Celebration. Saturday, June 20, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Historic St. Mary’s City, St. Mary’s City, off Route 5.

All day and evening celebration at the site of Maryland’s first colony and capital features tall ships along the St. Mary’s waterfront including tall ship Kalmar Nickel Delaware’s seagoing goodwill ambassador. The 200-tunnepinnace is modeled after the ship that sailed from Sweden to the New World in 1638. There will also be 17th-century style food, make-and-take crafts, sutlers (vendors), music, whimsey, and other entertainment. The day will close with a special River Concert, to include a reprise of “In Terra Maryland” and fireworks. Free. 800-762-1634, www.stmaryscity.org.

Juneteenth Celebration. Saturday, June 20, Noon, Freedom Park in Lexington Park, Route 235 and Tulagi Place.

Entertainment for all ages celebrating cultural diversity and freedom. Early evening jazz concert. Free. HC. 301-862-4868, www.ucaconline.org

Pinks All Out. Saturday, June 20, Maryland International Raceway, Budds Creek, Maryland.

Speed TV will be filming an episode of PINKS All Out. Hundreds of the best drag racers in the country will bring their game to MIR in search of glory and their share of $18,000 in cold, hard cash in PINKS All Out. Host Rich Christensen hosts the all day shootout that pits egos and cars against one another on the quarter mile. Ticketed event 301-884-9833, www.mirdrag.com

Celebrate Family, Fun and Fitness! Sunday, June 21, College of Southern Maryland, Leonardtown Campus, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. 22950 Hollywood Road, Leonardtown, Maryland.

CSM celebrates 375 years with Wellness, Fitness & Recreation. Come dressed to play on Father’s Day as you enjoy fitness demos, wellness tips, health screenings, fun
races and a 3.75-mile walk to include historic Leonardtown. Free. 301-934-7703 or 240-725-5312.

Visit Celebrate 375 MD Program and Website Sponsors including Southern MD hotels Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Inn, and Marriott Fairfield Inn, by Cherry Cove Hospitality.

Economy Drives Extended Service Hours for Local Businesses – Like Handyman Services

Many local businesses around Washington DC and Northern VA are adjusting their services and service hours to compensate for more challenging economic conditions, to improve the convenience factor and payment options for their customers, and to take advantage of additional help available outside of normal business hours.

Handyman Matters of Alexandria, for example, unlike most of its competitors, now offers Alexandria VA handyman services after typical business hours – this includes through 8PM weeknights and Saturday appointments. These home repair, renovation and fix-it service hours can be extremely helpful to commuters and customers faced with additional work responsibilities or longer lists of home maintenance projects.

Additionally, Handyman Matters of Alexandria offers pricing in 15 minute increments, and services for jobs as small as 1 hour – perfect for tackling a very wide variety of routine or emergency repairs, installations, painting, yard work, and other specialized home repair tasks. Jobs that tend to accumulate and never get the attention they deserve, preserving your most valuable investment – your home.

Now’s the time to look and ask for these extended, special and differentiated service and pricing options from all of your DC metro area home maintenance and service providers, from northern virginia energy-efficient replacement window installations, to Loudoun insurance, Fairfax home renovations and even your Prince William homes, land, and commercial real estate agent.

(Handyman Matters service specials like these can also be obtained through their Piedmont, VA Handyman Matters office, serving Western Loudoun, Prince William, and other West-Central Virginia counties).

DC and Virginia Area Auto Insurance Tips for Driving in Spring Rain

Following are some tips now that the snow’s gone, but rain is here, from your Fairfax and Loudoun County Insurance agents at NOVA Insurance Group, in South Riding, VA.

With the dawning of Spring often comes a deluge of rain showers and thunderstorms. While a soft Spring rain may seem innocent enough from the safety of your home, even a gentle shower can cause major problems here in Virginia (Fairfax & Loudoun Counties) on the road. Thousands of car accidents each year are caused by rain and wet roads—and motorists who don’t know how to drive on them.

During and after a rainstorm, a film of water quickly forms on asphalt roads. This sheath of water causes tires to lose traction, which means drivers can easily lose control. However, slippery roads are not the only danger to driving in the rain. Drivers also lose visibility during a rainstorm. Heavy rain can be absolutely blinding, fogging up the windows and even blocking your headlights. These things all add to an extremely dangerous situation.

If you find yourself on the road during a rainstorm, follow these safety tips to ensure you arrive alive:

Be especially careful when the rain first starts. When the roads are dry for a long period of time, engine oil and grease builds up on roads and highways. As soon as the first drops of rain start to fall, the water mixes with this build-up making the roads incredibly slick. This is why the first few hours of a rainstorm can be the most hazardous for drivers. If the rain continues to fall for a few more hours, the water will eventually wash away the greasy build-up.

Read more Northern Virginia and DC area auto insurance tips for driving in heavy spring rains…

DC Business Executives – Win at all Costs?

Following is an extract of a really good newsletter this month from one of DC’s leading Personal Executive Coaches and HR Strategy Consultants, James Bowles, of Northern Virginia.

“This newsletter is the third in a series of 5 dealing with bad habits. It is again based partly on the book by Marshall Goldsmith called “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”. I would highly recommend this book as you reflect on improving yourself by eliminating your own bad habits.

I received a lot of positive feedback on last month’s newsletter about bad habits in the area of communication, and how saying too much in certain situations can have an unintentional negative impact. Since we have learned by now that many successful people convince themselves that their bad habits are strengths, these may be hard to recognize and also hard to let go of. In fact, these bad habits may be points of pride that we do not really want to change. However, they need to be corrected early, before they become problems that prevent career advancement.

This month, we will look at more bad habits in the category of the “winning at all costs”. Winning is a natural behavior, and is feels great. Very few people begin a game of chess hoping to relish in the feeling of defeat. In Corporate America, there is an even bigger premium on winning. Winning companies are rewarded by bigger budgets, higher stock price, retention plans, etc. Traditional performance management systems reward individual performance, so winning employees get promotions, more money, favorable treatment, etc. Winning is good.

The problem with winning is that it starts to creep into the wrong situations. We start to compete over things that don’t matter. We look at teammates or other company employees as competitors, even when we have a common goal. We start to do things to promote ourselves, or to keep others at a disadvantage. Intentional self promotion and undermining of others is not a bad habit in my opinion, but bad behavior. The bad habit is when we do this unintentionally with no knowledge that we even have a bad habit that needs fixing!

Here are some examples:”

(read more about this very important personal coaching goal and habit…)

Ladies’ Northern Virginia Driving Clinic offered for Free – by Curry’s Auto, Chantilly VA – 4/23

FREE Northern Virginia Ladies’ Driving Clinic – April 23 – 7-9 PM at Curry’s Auto Service of Chantilly, VA

Arm yourself with the knowledge needed to survive on the roads of Northern Virginia!

Presented by Miriam Schottland of the DRIVELAB.

Register Here

Journalists – Find More Information Here about this press release.

Make sure your Fairfax or Loudoun County Auto Insurance is up to date!