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Personal Growth and Freedom
is an Inside Job

I understand that you have issues at work and in your personal life that you would like to fix, change, or improve. That's called being alive. Many of you also have a deep desire to fundamentally shift the way you move through life and how you meet its challenges with less stress. A desire even to live in peace and freedom. That's a good thing.

The interesting and profound thing about getting the outer details of your life to work is the personal growth you create on the inside.

This desire for personal growth may be a distant call or an ever present demand. The key to the change and improvement you want is the inner work you can do every day. There are creative and stress reducing solutions to business and personal issues that come from more fundamental levels of your nature and personality. These are the ones that stay with you.

Each of us has created a map of reality that colors and filters everything we see. That's why there is the alternative saying "Believing is Seeing." We are trapped by patterns of our own making that we accept as "the way things are." Our creative powers and possibilities are limited in ways we just can't get at.

As Einstein said, "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” You need a fresh perspective, a different view. New tools and techniques. I suggest finding a few ways that work for you and making them a daily practice.

So, to come up with the changes and improvements in your outer life, you can recognize that it's an inside job. Stay with it, have a daily practice, and you find that you're on the path to presence, peace, and freedom.

I coach by phone so it's easy to fit into your schedule. Benefit from my 40+ years of meditation and processing practice and teaching and 15+ years of coaching.

I encourage all of my clients to start with "The Daily Practice Collection" This will enhance our work together and give a framework for transformational change. You will benefit greatly from this foundational collection by itself or you may choose to continue as a coaching client. Send an email to jgillette@mac.com or call 210-240-0586 if you have any questions or would like to discuss the program.

Jim Gillette

Personal Growth Coach

Personal Growth and Freedom Blog
A blog of observations and thoughts about the human condition, our lives, and the journey of personal growth and freedom.

About Jim Gillette
About Jim Gillette

life coach
A life coach helps you create your journey of personal growth and development

This Business Coach Supports Wholeness
This business coach can help on the path to success and wholeness.

Spiritual Life Coach
A Spiritual life coach will help you uncover your true nature.

The Daily Practice Collection
The Daily Practice Collection offers transformative change and health benefits

Start the coaching program
Start the coaching program

Interview with Steve Toth
Jim Gillette interview by Steve Toth on real coaching radio network

Daily Practice
Have a daily practice to balance your life, improve your health, and find solutions.

Overcome Inertia
Change your methods to overcome inertia.

Gratitude
Gratitude will help you thrive.

Take Action
Take action to get what you want.

Release Tension in the Mind Through the Body
Release Tension in the Mind Through the Body

allow and release your desire for control, affection, and security
Allow and release your desire for control, affection, and security

Adept: Transforming Base Metal into Gold
Adept: Transforming Base Metal into Gold

Listen to Your Inner Encourager
Listen to Your Inner Encourager

Reduce stress
Reduce stress with a daily method of quieting the mind and body

Increase the Dynamic Range of Your Life
Increase the Dynamic Range of Your Life

Water the Roots
Water the Roots

Daily Meditation
You can practice daily meditation.

Self Growth
For self growth, you need to make a shift from automatic conditioned behavior.

Identity
When we want to develop and grow, we essentially want to move beyond an identity that no longer serves us.

Letting go
Letting go sets you free.

Meditation Techniques
There are many meditation techniques

habit loops
Our habit loops and inclinations largely determine our actions

The Zone
In the zone, this place of stillness and presence, we can find a larger perspective.

Work Life Balance
Work Life Balance is really Life Balance.

Stages of change
It helps to recognize your readiness for change

Who wants to transcend?
Who wants to transcend?

Blocks to learning
What are your blocks to growth and learning.

The Great Work
The Great Work. What is yours?

Levels of experience
There are three levels of experience. They are all fleeting.

The Gap
How do we bridge or disapear the gap.

Moving up Your Needs Hierarchy
Keep meeting your needs as you develp your life.

Stages of Competence
Pass through the stages of competence to reach mastery.

What is Personal Freedom
There are different levels of personal freedom.

Stages of Development
Human development is a never ending quest

Habits may impede.
Habits, which often help and are positive, may also impede your growth.

Emotional Intelligence
You can enhance and develop your emotional intelligence

The Two Sides of Selflessness
Selflessness helps both the receiver and the giver.

Next Level
Take it to the Next Level

Resistance
You create the resistance to your own growth.

New Patterns
How do you develop new patterns?

Stuck
What Keeps You Stuck?

Beyond Performance
A developmental style that goes beyond performance.

Instinctual variations
There are three instinctual variations

limitations
How do we create limitations in our life

relating to others
Relating to others can be good for you and them

Energy flows in your life
Let the energy flow in your life

More Happiness
More happiness, less wanting

unstuck
Get Unstuck at a Deeper Level

Out of the box
A way out of the box

Enhance your intuitive knowing
Enhance your intuitive knowing

mindset
Your mindset shapes everything

Inner Compass
Follow your inner compass

Self Care
Self care must be included in the foundation of lasting fulfillment and significance.

Your truth
Truth leads you on the journey of personal growth

Four root causes of suffering
There are four root causes of suffering

Benefits of meditation
There are many benefits of meditation

Self observation
A key to your growth will be the ability of self observation.

Your Life
Develop your life in a whole way

The way of practice
The Way of Practice in Daily Life

Beginner
The beginner is open and receptive.

A strong foundation holds up your life
A strong foundation holds up your life

Why practice presence
There are many reasons to practice presence

Holding On
Holding on can help or hinder us.

What is the best meditation?
What is the best meditation for you?

Empathy is the Foundation of Social Intelligence
Empathy is the Foundation of Social Intelligence

Living Consciously
Living consciously is living fully

The Cruise
The cruise is a metaphor for the life we want to live.

abundance
Abundance already is

possibilities
Your present is full of possibilities

create or discover
Do you Create or Discover Your Life?

Find your peace within
Your peace is found within

Awaken
Let us awaken and have the wholeness to fulfill our dreams.

Living Consciously includes personal finances
Living Consciously includes personal finances

All beliefs are stories
All beliefs are stories

Resources for health and growth
Resources to find your support and assistance


 

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Jim approaches life with Joy and Wonder, and he brings this gift to his coaching. He is a problem-solver, who is excited about busting through old patterns that don't work for you anymore and which hold you back. Jim is a compassionate, yet firm coach, advocating for your movement forward into new ways of being successful, happy and free. His instructional modules are immediately accessible and understandable and, if you commit to doing the work, they bring immediate results. Thanks for the many good lessons and great coaching, Jim. I am a better person and in a better place in my life because of it.

HB

Los Angeles


Jim Gillette is a remarkable human being with wondrous gifts to share. His years of honing his skills have brought him to this place of being the perfect "coach". Jim is an amazing listener and always excited about exploring deeper. He is present, 100%, which is a rare gift. He has so many tools to draw from, but mostly he has a huge heart that is full of joy and wonder, and it's infectious. He makes learning about yourself and making changes the best thing you could do for your future.

BM LAc

Hilo


Jim is the greatest motivator I have ever known. His enthusiasm, articulateness, encouragement, and humility uplift everyone who knows him. Concerning his character, I can say he is truly a man of honor.

AN PhD.

Los Angeles


I've known Jim Gillette for several years, during which time I've benefited from his advice about meditation in particular (for example, his gentle nudging to make my practice part of a regular routine -- loosening the soil of the soul, as he puts it) , and from his good judgment in general. Jim is one of those rare people who listen not only with intelligence but with kindness. You can count on him to have your best interests at heart and to be solidly by your side as you take your steps toward personal growth.

SM

Austin


I have known Jim for a number of years, and he has had a big impact on my personal growth. Jim has a very special ability to reflect on the issues I am working on and then offer perspectives, tools and paths to better understand how I can improve or leave those issues behind. I have always found him to have a great balance between both support and stimulating challenge to transform.

GM

London


In 45 years of friendship, I have personally profited from Jim's guidance, feedback and coaching. I have experienced him as one of those unusual men who lives 200% of life always developing his emotional and spiritual maturity and bringing those qualities to a successful business career. In addition Jim thrives in environments in which he can bring his profound experience in both areas of life to others in partnership, friendship and mentorship.

JM

Asheville