I’ll be in the Shoreline/Edmonds area on Tuesday June 4th. Send me an email (jim@jimschmotzer.com) or call/text me (360.224.4974) if you’d like to arrange a meeting for Life Coaching or Leadership Mentoring. I currently have openings at 4 and 5 pm, possibly 6. My commitment is to help you better understand yourself and then go forward with greater purpose and confidence. Don’t pass up this opportunity.
Life Coaching
Is it decision making time? I’d like to help.
When I began to consider pursuing professional ministry, seminary and potentially ordination, Jim was naturally the first person I turned to for guidance. After serving with and being taught by him for several years as a college student, I knew his wisdom and experience would be indispensable to me. He has not only helped me to determine the next steps in discerning my path and opened my eyes to new opportunities, but has encouraged me by pointing out strengths I didn’t know I had and reminding me that leadership comes in a variety of forms. He is unrivaled in his ability to guide and support individuals from all walks of life; I have hardly heard of anyone walking away from a chat with Jim over coffee without a renewed sense of their own worth and direction.
Jenni Herold, Bellingham, WA
Helping with decision making, goal clarification and transitions are things I greatly enjoy. Please contact me if you are at a point of significant life choices. Making the best decision is always worth the extra time and effort.
Meet me in Seattle
I am open to Life Coaching or Leadership Mentoring meetings in the Seattle area. Let me know if you are interested in meeting and I will coordinate a couple of times a month for trips south. What a deal, I’m coming to you.
Help for decision making
Decisions often have long range impact and/or implications. Making the best decision can be difficult. Making the wrong decision can be painful. Here are comments from Sarah Spitzer related to how I helped her with making a critical decision:
“Several months ago, I found myself at a crossroads with two paths that would take my life in very different directions. I only had a couple of days to decide and was feeling stressed and unsure of what I should do. Contacting Jim was one of the best things I could have done. His sincere heart for serving, thought provoking questions, keen ear, and wisdom helped give me clarity to make a confident decision. He assisted me in determining what was preventing me from making a decision. I was and continue to be grateful for Jim’s gift of counsel.”
Sarah Spitzer, Brussels (Belgium) American School, ESL/French Teacher
Please contact me if you are facing a significant decision or transition. Thorough working together we can help you move forward toward a best hoped for future.
One of the greatest rewards…
For me one of the greatest rewards is helping others along the way, the way of life, faith, career and more. Following is Fred Hartsook’s story of how I was able to support him over the long haul. Let me know if you’d like to connect and explore ways I could support you on your journey.
For the last decade, Jim Schmotzer has been many things to me. He has been a spiritual leader, a mentor, a cheerleader, and a friend. Jim’s loyal guidance and support as I worked through a very difficult and confusing decade of young adulthood have proved invaluable.
When I met Jim, I was a freshman in college. I spent the next few years floundering wildly as I took my first steps toward adulthood, and as Jim witnessed my challenges; he entered my life with great care. He would disarm me by approaching me without judgment, and his gifts in perception allowed him to speak deeply in to my life. Jim provided an anchor of support and respect that I desperately needed.
In the years following, Jim continued to faithfully encourage me as I explored various career paths, always making himself available to me to provide personal insight and big-picture commentary. As I transitioned in to a career path of full-time ministry, Jim celebrated my calling with me and shared priceless wisdom from his decades of experience. His affirmation of my pursuit of my current ministry position gave me the confidence I needed to pursue it fully.
I am deeply blessed and grateful to have Jim in my life. While he has had profound influence in my personal life, being exposed to his gifting in organizational health has also informed my work in ministry leadership on every meaningful level. Jim’s thumbprint can be found, in some form, in all the areas in which I’ve been fortunate enough to serve and lead.
I enthusiastically encourage any individual to seek Jim’s guidance through any season of life.
Fred Hartsook, Middle School Director, CTK Bellingham, WA
Opportunities…
Here are some of the projects I am focusing on these days: 1) Life Coaching related to self discovery, goal setting, decision making and life transitions, 2) Fundraising support, (for campus ministers and ministries) I’ll be in Colorado next week for a training related to coaching others in support raising, 3) Networking, helping connect people and organizations to build supportive relationships and explore new opportunities, and 4) Leadership Mentoring, helping organizational leaders proactively move forward. For fun this week I am going to start working with the local middle and high school Special Olympics Spring Soccer program.
Please contact me and we can explore ways in which I can help you and your organization in the coming days.
support for the journey
It is a joy to support people through Life Coaching. Life Coaching can be focused in a variety of areas: translations, decision making, clarity and purpose, career focus, relationships, life stages and ages and more. Following are Julie Miller’s comments about how I have supported her in recent years. Let me know if you’d like to connect and explore helpful ways we can work together.
Practical help I first met Jim in 2006. Over the past few years, Jim has been a solid supporter and mentor to me through some very challenging personal events that have taken place in my life. I am so appreciative of his ability to truly listen, empathize, and ask questions in a way that is honest yet sensitive. Whether I talk to Jim about my faith, relationships, life goals or my current transition into being a young professional, he is consistently a positive source of encouragement and reason. I’m thankful to have a mentor like Jim in my life!
Julie Miller, Elementary Teacher, Burlington, WA
Now is always a good time…
A good time for decision making, life clarification and direction setting. My hope is to help individuals work a process that brings clarity and progress toward understanding and living their best life. Following is Caity Kepler’s story of how we have worked together over the years.
As my mentor, Jim has the inherent ability to ask the exact right questions I have needed to hear in the moment. He has the wisdom to see what should be dealt with immediately and what should be reflected on for longer periods of time. After having a mentoring conversation with Jim, I am always amazed at how he was able to bring clarity and thought to details I hadn’t even realized I needed to think through. Plus he always continues to show genuine encouragement and interest as I’ve taken steps to improve my life and work towards my goals. And somehow knowing Jim is in my corner always makes those steps just a little bit easier to attempt.
Caity Kepler, Grad student, Bellingham, WA
Please contact me now and we can schedule a Life Coaching or Leadership Mentoring appointment for April.
If you know Anne…
Knowing Anne Campbell over the years is a joy. She makes any gathering a party and any party a better party. It’s been a privilege to support her in times of transition and decision making. Following are Anne’s words related to our friendship and working together.
At first I was drawn to Jim because I simply liked him, back in 1999 as a freshman at Western Washington University, young and excited and seeking direction in life. But over the course of years, I have found his willingness to get together and talk about any season of life (particularly transition times, i.e. from college to an internship at the INN, from the internship to moving away to the city, from the city to moving yet again for graduate school, then from being single to being married) absolutely refreshing from the standpoint of his keen insights and intelligent challenges toward excellence.
Anne Campbell, free-lance writer, Accounting Clerk, Bellingham, WA
A great day with
Anne & Robert Campbell!
decision making and direction changing
Karlie WIpperling’s story gives clarity to how I can help you through supportive coaching. Following are her words:
I have known Jim for close to 10 years and am blessed to count him as mentor and good friend. With any challenge I face in my life, whether personal or professional, Jim listens with genuine interest and true concern. He asks just the question I am avoiding that also happens to be the key to the solution. Jim’s strength is building relationships and tailoring his coaching to each individual he works with. I am forever grateful for his guidance and friendship.
Karlie Wipperling, Clinic Manager, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA
If you are at a place of decision making or direction changing I can help you process and move forward for your best possible future. Now is always the best time for action. Contact me now and we can get moving forward soon.
Jim
jim@jimschmotzer.com
360.224.4974