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“Life Coaching, Men’s Work, Me:”   The Shadows of Self Promotion
Mikaal Bates Mikaal Bates

“Life Coaching, Men’s Work, Me:” The Shadows of Self Promotion

This work is beyond me. That's the whole point. Writing this in real time, I just got that that's why I felt like a fraud for so long.... Because this work IS bigger than me, and well beyond me in my capacity as a thinking, rational human.

What is coming through me now in my work is the result of me finally being able to GET OUT OF MY OWN WAY and trust that what I have learned, built, created is ENOUGH to the point that I am willing to be USED as an instrument of loving service all my Brothers and Sisters and Others, and the Goodness that lives in each of us.

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MEN’S WORK: A LIFE on PURPOSE
Mikaal Bates Mikaal Bates

MEN’S WORK: A LIFE on PURPOSE

Pamplona, Spain.
July, 2006.

Moments before getting stepped on by a bull …
Yup. You read that right.

Stepped on by a bull trying to help get that bull off of someone else that was getting flung around like a rag doll.

He turned and charged me -- that split second that felt like an hour.

He lowered his head and charged. I literally "grabbed the bull by the horns" as he took me down …

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