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Where are you today? Where do you want to be? What’s your next step? Life coaching offers practical, results-oriented ways to make the things you want happen with your personal, career and business challenges:

	CLARITY: Realizing purpose, passion and priorities through your intentions, actions and outcomes. What do you want to achieve? Where can you get started? How will you know when you’ve succeeded? Clarity provides direction and focus for initiating and attaining a fulfilling and meaningful life.
	COMMITMENT: Aligning motivation, trust and integrity with your values, principals and beliefs. What guides your choices and decisions? Your goals and results? How can you create and grow inner strength, suppleness and stamina? Commitment sets the foundation to get the personal and professional outcomes you want.
	CONSISTENCY: Ensuring structure, discipline and accountability in your thoughts, words and deeds. How can you eliminate stress and overwhelm? Ensure future dependability? Make unexpected challenges more predictable? Consistency provides stable frames for exploring creativity and resilience to the full.

Ready to set aside past problems and start creating the change you want?  Life coaching offers a highly effective approach for developing the clarity, commitment and consistency to overcome challenges you face today with outcomes you choose for tomorrow.

What kind of challenges do you face right now?

FIRE-FIGHTING
Finding permanent solutions to resolve persistent & recurring problems

EQUILIBRIUM
Developing adaptive options to balance on-going responsibilities & goals

ADVANCEMENT
Launching robust ventures to achieve new objectives & opportunities

Discover how life coaching can help you clarify goals, commit to actions and achieve consistent results.  Together we’ll identify your challenges, the benefits you want to realize, and specific steps you can start taking right away.

Find out what life coaching can do for you.  We begin with a short check-in to ensure that coaching fits your needs and expectations.  If all’s good, we continue with a full coaching session in which we’ll:

An initial coaching session is a great way to:

A wise, warm and practical book.

Compassionate, Funny, Practical, Comprehensive Approach …

A useful, hands-on approach written in a personable style

This book allows the reader to reframe and shift perspectives …

LOVE YOUR NEGATIVE SELF-TALK introduces exciting new practices to eliminate negative self-talk and create the kind of life you want. Drawing on over a decade of 1-on-1 coaching work, author Robert McFadden outlines effective strategies for transforming your relationship with yourself through small shifts in thoughts, habits and actions.

Along the way, you’ll discover solutions to limiting beliefs, attitudes and behaviours that may be holding you back from making the choices and changes you want. How can you stop turning in self-defeating circles and start building clarity, commitment and consistency in your day-to-day experience? How can you step back from a life of self-doubt and sabotage to one of open curiosity, compassion and confidence?

The message in this book is simple. You do not have to live bound by limiting perspectives and beliefs. There is a much less costly and far more rewarding approach available. It all begins with your response to negative self-talk. You too can turn your most vicious critic into your most valued collaborator.

Here’s how.

“Every week, I have conversations with people who struggle with the toughest opponent they’ve ever faced. The most obstinate, offensive and obnoxious adversary they know. Their inner critic. Most of these people are quick to recognize their competencies and achievements. Many lead stimulating and rewarding lives. Most enjoy warm personal relationships, exciting professional challenges and excellent health. Still, they all too often wind up slammed against the wall. Confronted by some of the most mean-spirited, contemptuous and debilitating thoughts imaginable. Negative self-talk.”

– Robert McFadden

People come to me looking for practical solutions.  Results-oriented ways to make the things they want happen.  They want a partner.  Someone to listen, challenge and hold them accountable for their words and actions.

I help people create the life they want and move forward according to their individual needs, resources and values.  Without imposing ready-made strategies or off-the-rack solutions.

For over a decade, Robert has coached people to achieve outstanding results in their personal lives, careers, and businesses. Robert’s clients come from all backgrounds:

• professionals from medicine and law through to arts and entertainment;
• commercial and social entrepreneurs spanning software development and fashion design to green tech and migration policy;
• corporate executives, essential service providers, and freelancers of every stripe, discipline, and trade.

Robert comes to coaching with a background in innovative leadership at Microsoft, Avid Technology, and the National Gallery of Canada.

Prior to coach training at the Centre for Human Relations and Community Studies at Concordia University, and certifications from the International Coach Federation and the Association for Integrative Psychology, Robert completed post-graduate studies at University College London and undergraduate work at the University of Ottawa.