Are you at a loss for what direction to take?
In your personal life?
In your business?

Are you creative?
Multi-talented?
Not certain of the next step?

More on Life Coach, Sheila Finkelstein, Lens to Life Discovery :
My mission in life is to support individuals in discovering, seeing, and acknowledging their own self-worth, living their lives to their fullest capacity without the constraints of the limiting internal conversations with which we so often find ourselves.

The POLLYANNA book series was my favorite as a young child, often home sick in bed. Pollyanna's outlook in life, always finding the good in a situation, has been, often unbeknownst to me, the underlying theme in my life. The NANCY DREW series was my other favorite. Herein comes my passion for discovery!

Working together to discover the "stories" you keep telling yourself that hold you back, seeing them from new perspectives, and creating action steps that move you forward are the basic part of the process during our working together.

The background of professional and richness of life experience I bring to client relationships includes that from the many shoes and hats I've worn:

artist, photographer, writer, coach, previously in sales and marketing, education and community leader, as well as daughter, wife, parent, grandparent and ultimately, former caregiver to my husband with Parkinson's Disease and lifetime student.

To get a sense of what's possible in our working together, I invite you to bring a single issue in your life to a conversation in a 20 minute complimentary coaching session. Simply fill in the form below to get that going.

(Note - see San Marco Interview, for some general background; Testimonial - 30 years later, my lasting impact on the life and career of a former 5th grade student of mine; and Overview for various media in which I've been working.)

Hear and See what Clients are saying:

"I am so, so thankful for your wisdom today. You literally pulled me out of the quicksand, set me on the bank and pointed me in the right direction and I am just so, so thankful.

It's been far more than I ever anticipated that I would have gotten from one session.  I became unstuck, which I would have been thankful for. But not only was I unstuck, I leave with a plan of action that I know where I’m going.  You literally, as I said, pulled me out of the quicksand.

You pointed me in a direction. Not only did you do that,  you gave me a compass and suggested the way to go.

You ARE an answer to a prayer. As I said to you earlier, 'a coincidence is a Miracle in which God wants to remain anonymous.' This offer of the session came from heaven, because I had lost contact with you and all of a sudden there was your offer.

The one thing that can’t be recycled is wasted time.  That’s the beauty of it.  None of this time was wasted today. It was all productive and I’m full of gratitude.  When I do my gratitude list tonight I will not give thanks for you once but twice."

Kathy is working with people in healing memories. At the end of her spoken testimonial, I mentioned the work I had done after my husband died. You can hear her response to that with her concluding remark:

“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. And I think you sum up wisdom.”

KATHY SMITH, Scotland, after an Intro Coaching Session on getting past blocks, feeling totally STUCK on her career path

Click on the arrow (top left box) to hear Patti Ulrich who had a job relocation decision to make. It involved her husband staying back until things were settled.

"I hope you will be able to continue coaching because I think you do such a great job." When asked whate she found helpful:

"The way that you could get me to think in a logical and rational way, given some irrational fears, the emotional based fears that I have. You were able to sort of pull me into thinking rationally.

Also kind of keying into things I said.  For instance your suggestion about creating a sermon, what would I tell a group of Patti's.  Because I love helping people, that’s a natural way for me to help myself, something that I would be comfortable in doing.  That would benefit me a lot.  You saw that and kind of found that unique thing that I could do. It would be different for someone else.

Also the way you helped me think about my husband and what he’s experiencing and how he is experiencing all of this.   And giving me an approach that would be a lot more positive for our relationship and that kind of thing rather than keying into my irrational and emotionally based fears about how he would be, how he would react, or what he would do.  Kind of keeping things rational and well thought out is a really great way of allaying fears, helping healing fears."

PATTI ULRICH, Minneapolis, MN

In an email to a group, Marifran wrote: "As one of the lucky people to be coached by Sheila, I have to say she is inspired. I thought I did not have an issue to work on. Knowing I had an almost-finished book, Sheila asked questions that led me to find my vision for the book's ultimate purpose and contribution.

She has a gift. I have the highest respect for her coaching ability. Nothing has to be wrong. Sheila will send you soaring."

Gratefully, MARIFRAN KORB , www.mentallyillparents.com.

"After my session with Sheila, I opened my mind to asking my 5.75 year old more open ended questions about life and feelings and we had one of the best dinners we have ever had for 2 dinners in a row.  We also took the opportunity to go out onto the balcony and she brought out her camera to "take pictures of our neighborhood so she could show her kids when she gets older".  

She was so excited to talk with me and be with me in this new way along with the new experience of really taking pictures with her camera outside of the house.  We plan on many more lively chats and fun outings with the camera and using all the techniques we talked about to enrich our lives.  

Tonight as I laid her down to bed she said, "Mom, you are so loving. You are a great mom.  Lately you have been even MORE loving." I said, really how? She said, you are just closer to me, I can feel that."

Thank you Sheila for your intuition and for your passion and for your support in helping me be even closer to my daughter.  There is no greater work in my opinion and you really helped open my eyes to what is possible with our connection."

Thank you, Tracy L., Chicago

"It was my pleasure to have Sheila Finkelstein as my Life Coach.  My project included three very distinct goals in very different areas of my life - my business, my spirituality, and a workshop I wanted to develop and mock.  None of these areas were "simple" goals.  All were important to me but I hadn't taken the actions to make them happen.