Your Guide to the Life You Love

Life Is So Much Easier

Since we began our coaching experience together one year ago, I can see the progress that I have made in achieving a less stressful, more organized and happier life.

Being the mother of a young child and a top sales producer can be a tough balancing act. Your outside view and skillful techniques have helped me see ways to streamline some of the more mundane activities at home, thus giving me more time to relax and enjoy my family and friends. I feel less stress over the small things and have established more effective communication with my husband and daughter.

At the same time, your extremely helpful reminders of top sales tools have aided me in achieving Presidents Club Level status (115% of my annual quota)—and the big incentive trip to the Canadian Rockies—this year. I feel fantastic about that!

I have always enjoyed your refreshing perspective on life. Thanks for the great friendship and the wonderful coaching.

Stacy Frank
Major Accounts District Manager, Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

Turned Her Life Around After Husband's Death

"I wanted you to know that you have been very instrumental in the change in outlook I've experienced in these last few months, and I cannot thank you enough for that. Our exercises in creativity and self-exploration and your book have helped tremendously in enabling me to continue the healing/life enrichment work. You are absolutely the most positive person I have ever encountered, and you manage not to be obnoxious or annoying about it — a real feat!

It occurs to me that almost everything I wrote down a few months ago is becoming a reality, though I'd forgotten having actually committed these goals to paper. Hmmm! (music from "The Twilight Zone" is playing in my head). The point is, I give you a lot of credit for my turnaround." So, blessings to you!!!!"

—Diane Payne
Publications Director Board of Regents University System of Georgia

Learned to Follow Her Heart

What a great encouragement and inspiration you have been to me. From the class at Emory last fall to our individual coaching sessions, you have kept me pointed in exactly the right direction.

Your encouragement, resourcefulness in providing just what I needed at just the right time and constant challenge to me to follow my heart have made all the difference in the world. I especially appreciate your constantly reminding me that I can, should and must think outside the box and listen to my heart.

Through you, I have met many great minds (living and dead) and have learned to be creative in a way I could never have achieved on my own.

I thank God for bringing you into my life at such an opportune time and consider our meeting to be, indeed, Providential.

Zoe M. Hicks, Hicks & Hicks, P.C., Attorney & Author, Atlanta, GA

Made a Difference In Her Life

You have amazing gifts and talents! There's such forthrightness, compassion and wisdom in your book and I feel such a kinship with you—thank you again for all your inspiration and encouragement. Thank you for bringing your joy, love and positive intentions through your book and to our class, and making a difference in my life. Namaste,

-Kim Saunders, Alpharetta, GA, EnrichCafe.com

Gained Strength, Hope & Empowerment

After last night I am so glad I made the decision to take your class. Over the years I've bought and collected several inspirational/spiritual/self-help books none of which I finished reading - except for yours. As I read your book I gained a sense of strength, hope, and empowerment to finally deal with so much hurt, pain and insecurities in my life. I so much want to connect and discover the person I've neglected to be. Thank you Patrice for your book, your class... what a wonderful thing!

Edivia Tangren, Atlanta, GA

Major Shifts from Negative to Positive Thinking

I do think the message you deliver is finally beginning to sink into my brain, heart and soul. It has been very hard for me to give up my old ways and learn new ones, but ever so gradually, I am experiencing major changes to my way of thinking. It sometimes seems that for every step I take forward, I take two backwards, but even this is improving. Thanks so much for mentioning that you have been there also. It's always great to know others have similar experiences. One of the things I have never really recognized in myself is creativity. Well, you hit on that....I am thinking about that too.

-Linda Jones, research coordinator, Stone Mountain, GA

Found the Right Direction for Her Wonderful Life

I want to express my gratitude to you for being my life coach during this time of transition in my life. As you know, being an attorney with an MBA and an undergraduate degree in accounting I left my job as a tax associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors. After traveling throughout Asia and exploring the family business of importing I was not convinced that importing was something I could be passionate about. I was in a prolonged state of indecision and inactivity when I took your class at Emory-'Get the Life You Love.' After all the insights I gained in your class, I felt that some one-on-one attention might help me identify my next step.

Your insights helped me to understand that focusing on one path did not mean that I would not get to explore other paths at a later time in life. In addition, I now understand that I do not need to see the entire path right this moment but it will unfold before me as I begin. Most importantly, your perspective helped me identify the path I was most passionate about and you helped me to clarify the exact steps to start on my chosen career path. You were also very generous with your personal resources and referred me to people who had professional experience on my career path.

This letter cannot even begin to cover the many different life strategies and insights you provided during our sessions. For all your insight and wisdom I am eternally appreciative."

Melody Hunter JD, MBA, Real Estate Entrepreneur, Atlanta, GA

Courage To Be Herself Again After Divorce

Thanks for your continuing inspirational notes, messages, text of all sorts. Just wanted to update you on my journey.... I finally have my little slice of paradise....Sullivan's Island, SC. It's so amazing to me that I have this beach place. I still pinch myself every time I'm there, in my small town, 2 blocks from the beach. As a bonus, I also have a very nice, loving man in my life...I have a few girlfriends who still think their own life is incomplete without a significant other. That's really too bad; they're missing out on the most important friendship of their life.... themselves.

Thanks for helping me see my path more clearly, all those years ago. I truly know that your class was an eye opener that gave me the courage to be ME again. Take care, friend.

Paris Patrick, Marietta, GA

All Coming True!

I have officially submitted my intentions to the corporation for a July 16 exit date. Patrice, thank you so much for your help and encouragement that has brought me and so many people to this point. You are a true angel on Earth. Everything on my vision board is happening!

Katie Macias, creative entrepreneur, Decatur, GA

Learned to Trust Himself and Follow His Dreams

Only a month after Patrice began coaching me, I found myself at peace in the career I currently follow. More importantly, she provided the groundwork for a new career. She helped me establish practical and exciting goals and has provided me the introspection to find the motivators that will help me attain them. My career and my personal life are now more like an adventure than they have ever been before.

I desired a change in my career. It wasn't until Patrice began coaching me that I actually became acutely aware of the particular changes I desired, why I desired those changes, how I could attain them, and whether or not these changes would truly make me happy. While these were questions that I had always asked myself, Patrice made the answers clear and brought them to a level of unmistakable consciousness by using her intuition, creativity, vast resources, numerous contacts, successful experience inside the corporate world and out, and above all, her innate ability to push individuals to reach their goals.

Working hard has never been a problem for me, just as it may not be for you. Perhaps like you, I was raised with a work ethic to work hard now, in order to gain happiness later (an illusion, Patrice was quick to point out, that creates an endless circle of disappointment). Patrice coached me to trust myself and to follow my dreams so that happiness could be present now and later. She brought to fruit what was always inside of me. As a person, Patrice is truly a fantastic teacher, a great friend, and a wonderful human being. As a coach, she is unparalleled. Believe me when I tell you that your life will improve considerably, no matter where you are currently in your life, with Patrice Dickey in your corner.

Brian Leonard, Environmental Engineer, MBA

She Learned To Dream For Herself

I look in the mirror and I am starting to see what was buried under layers of guilt and low self esteem. Digging for buried treasure takes time and I started this process three years ago by taking Patrice Dickey's "Get the Life You Love" at Evening at Emory. The idea that I could make my own "Treasure Map" and it didn't have to include what my mother stated was my life's path was a break through. The class engaged my imagination of what was possible. Patrice - like a dance partner - led us through the lessons and activities with a firm yet gentle touch that helped guide us toward personal growth. I gained the courage to start working on changing my life (set boundaries with myself and my family) and to deal with the obstacles without buckling under.

Change is taking many baby steps but once you stop to rest and look back, you'll see how far you've come, and you look ahead to see what treasure on the map you're heading towards.

Beth Carter, Atlanta, GA

"I just wanted to let you know that it's been refreshing to work with you as a sales coach. You're not stuck on the nuts-and-bolts approach, which I thought was what I totally needed. But working with you, I realized that knowing the nuts and bolts are a good thing, but what's needed is an organic way of implementing them in no less than a spiritual way. You've help me connect to the knowledge and confidence that I already had. Coming to that realization has energized me to move forward with ideas I've had, now more polished. In other words, my intuition was pointing the right way, but I needed help to clarify the view.

There is a quote I came across last year that is on my office wall at home: "Many are willing to win, but few are willing to Prepare to win."

I'm now laying the ground for the future. I'm going to blow the doors off of 2007! In an un-egotistical way, of course, since I'm not attached to the outcome!"

Kindest regards, Bill Solomon
Internet Consultant