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Japanese Buddhist Temple For Sale in Japan, Long Beach

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Once in while you get a truly fascinating story. In this case, a friend of ours who lived with us in Japan emailed me this story.

To all of you fortunate and cultural real estate investors, a Japanese Buddhist temple is on the market in the city of Katsuyama, Japan. At 21 million Euros or over $30,000,000, the temple hasn’t paid its taxes in ten years. The city hopes to recoup from the sale. At 34,000 sq meters or 111,500 sq ft, there is plenty to do with tow beautiful Pagodas, one sculpted with 9 dragons, a Japanese garden, an auditorium, and other buildings.

Hum… if I had money, I tell you what I’d do, I’g go downtown buy a Japanese temple, ‘cuz I’m crazy about Japanese Temples! For those of you who don’t remember that last lyrics, it was taken from Mercury Blues.

Now back to reality.

So What Is Coaching, Long Beach

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Funny where life leads you. One minute you are doing this and then you are irresistibly attracted to something else. I’m not leaving real estate, I love it too much but I am certainly incorporating Coaching into it.

I spent last week in Denver working on my first level in coaching through a school called Coach University. Yeah, you probably thought a coach university existed, right? I was surrounded with like minded wonderful people. It was a life revealing experience. It was a tough time, a learning time, I feel full, exhausted both mentally and emotionally but with a wealth of experience, tools and techniques.

Over the next few days or weeks I will talk more about as I make sense of the onslaught.

One burning question I had all this time is: What is coaching after all?

Great question, thanks for asking. The first thing that comes to mind is, it is NOT coaching in the sports sense. Indeed, far from it. It also is NOT consulting. A coach simply doesn’t deliver a solution per se, and an adviser tells you what to do.

Coaching is by far the most subtle profession I experienced to date. It is challenging, fulfilling both for the coachee and the coach. Anyway, more to come on that later, after I go see my own coach to help sort my own thoughts.