Podcast Time: Just Do It

In my inbox, on any given day, there are at least a dozen invitations to webinars on personal effectiveness, lifecoaching sessions, holistic selfdiscovery retreats, selfrealization courses and selfimprovement seminars. Makes me miss the good old days of enticing offers for penisenlargement contraptions and pleas from Nigerian royalty. A hearttoheart talk with a trusted friend over a bottle of whiskey used to be enough to get you out of a rut and put you on your way. Not anymore. These days, to solve their problems people shell out anywhere between 50 and 250 per session for guided meditation, positive affirmations, thought refocusing, and shifts in perception in the company of a life coach a mysterious miracle worker, it seems. But you know what they say, right Those who can, do; those who can t, teach. Most ironically, life coaches have all these tools and exercises that allegedly help you become aware of how you could waste less time and be more productive. And in fact, the most productive thing