Life Coach Jim Shumate

I’m Jim Shumate, a life coach based in the red hills of Utah, and I’d like to offer you a path to personal, professional, and spiritual growth and fulfillment.  With 31 years' experience in the law and legal profession, where I focus on helping people to effect change, plus a broad layman’s religious background, I can assist you in finding the kind of balance in your personal and professional life that you may be lacking.

Life Coaching

More time to enjoy your work and family, all in your own lifetime!

Organize your work and family life so that you have regular, weekly time with your spouse and children.  Learn to set priorities that you can live by to find success both in the world and within the walls of your own home.
 

Choose the right path for yourself in your personal and professional life.
 

Is it time to make a change or a choice in your life that you have been yearning to make?  You can change and make choices that will lead to happiness and the serenity that comes from knowing that you are in the right place, the right relationship, the right job, and the right life.
 

Learn how to identify and deal with addictive behavior, within yourself or others.
 

In addition to my work with Feroce I regularly work with the clients of a drug court and many others whose lives are in personal turmoil.  My success stories are numerous -- from the fellow who runs the deli where I often grab lunch to the mechanic who works on my family vehicles.  They are both recovering addicts who rediscovered life with my help and coaching.  But most addictions don't involve chemicals, and are not ever going to be diagnosed:  these are our addictions to ways of thinking, feeling, acting, and perceiving the world.  Sometimes we call them bad habits, without realizing, perhaps, that they're more serious, and biologically ingrained, than the word "habit" suggests.
 

Values-Based Coaching (Special Focus Upon Request Only)

Understand that you can live your life as God would have you live and succeed.
 

Does it seem to you that the pressures of life force you to compromise your deeply held Christian beliefs? Learn how to live in the world but not be of the world. I can show you how strong conviction to personal standards will pay big dividends in how you are respected by your peers.
 

Find your own voice and be comfortable with who you are and what you believe.
 

You do not have to bite your tongue when someone advocates something that you find morally repugnant.  You can express yourself and your standards without confrontation, but also without compromise on vital beliefs.

Law Coaching

Hone your skills as a successful advocate for courtroom or business settings
 

Learn how to focus on the key elements of your work so that you don’t waste time in frivolous effort.  I can show you that even the most complicated looking set of facts can be reduced to a question that you could literally write on a post-it note.
 

Get organized for court, meetings and presentations.
 

I can show you how to prepare for hearings and trials so that your case is clearly and efficiently presented.  Are you worried that your work is boring to the jury or simply annoying to the judge?  I’ll show you how to hold their attention and succeed in presenting your case.  Is your audience a committee at work?  The same principles apply.  Are you making a pitch to a new potential client?  Learn your personal strengths and use them to your advantage.

Why am I a coach?
 

After high school I was appointed to the U. S. Air Force Academy, Class of 1973.  After the tough fourth class year, I was diagnosed as a Type I, insulin dependent, Diabetic which I have successfully treated for 36 years.  I completed my undergraduate Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Utah in two more years after the Academy.  I graduated from the University Of Utah College Of Law in 1975.

Since law school, I have been a prosecutor, defense lawyer, civil litigator and am presently a Master of the Bench in an American Inn of Court.  I have tried hundreds of cases to jury verdict in the State of Utah.  I also served as a Bar Examiner in the State of Utah for ten years.  I have been married now for 34 years and have three grown and successful sons.  Much of my own achievement I credit to following a spiritual set of goals.  Those are discussed in my Christian Life Coach section.

My work in the law for the last 31 years has given me nearly limitless chances to help people find new ways of approaching problems and, more recently, an opportunity to let people see that they have the power to change their lives.  These changes are sometimes small, incremental steps, but they lead to truly miraculous changes.  For
the last 5 1/2 years I have had the chance to work with the Washington County Utah Drug Court and have served as the fulcrum of the effort to lead addicts to sobriety and clean lives.  I cannot express to you the joy of sharing a client's growth and realization of potential that they may have only guessed at.
 

Success

Larry is the man who works on my cars.  When I first met Larry he was charged with several felonies, he was behind on his child support, he was in jail and his life was a shambles.  I worked with, coached, and served as personal cheerleader for Larry as he found sobriety and literally found God.  Today he is a successful businessman, and outstanding mechanic, and, most important, Larry is a good husband and father.
 

Tim began our acquaintance much like Larry.  He had an active and destructive addiction.  He was losing his job in the retail world and he was losing his kids.  Today he has a responsible position with his employer and his children look up to him as the father that they love and respect.  I was blessed to be able to show Tim how he could get to his new life.  Today I see Tim quite often -- to say hi, and to buy lunch.
 

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