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LIFE, Tuesday, March 16, 2004, p. C03

27 million ways to live your life

Stop putting up with what's dragging you down, and take yourself more seriously. Take immediate, effective action. Set better goals, create momentum, get results.

Get a personal coach, and the International Coaching Federation promises you'll do all this and more.

No kidding: The ICF, with more than 6,000 certified member coaches and 145 chapters in 30 countries, will even help you find one of the 20,000 personal coaches practising worldwide. Imagine: your very own on-call Dr. Phil, who'll help you get your life on track and follow your dreams.

And it can cost as little as $150 a month.

Sounds cheesy. New-agey. Well, executives, actors and athletes have long had coaches, so why not get a coach for team you?

See www.coachfederation.org for details.

Actually skating on your inline skates isn't too hard, it's the stopping part that gets you- a fact that became abundantly clear when you crashed into a 76-year-old woman on the Lake Shore last August.

But no need to hang up those babies yet. Problader can come to the rescue.

The Toronto-based professional inline skating instructors will take you out alone or with a bunch of your friends and teach you their "revolutionary training techniques" which include, uh, stopping properly. In fact, they guarantee that you'll learn to stop. And if you're already a good skater, they'll teach you how to be skate even better- and safer, too.

Outdoor classes start up again this month, but you can take lessons online anytime. Surf to www.problader.com for details.

So you're queer, or you think you might be. Or maybe bisexual. Or transgendered. And if you're interested in art, too, the Art Gallery of York University wants to invite you to a free educational workshop this Saturday.

It's happening in conjunction with the exhibition "Sinbad in the Rented World," a display of fashion, music and zines by queer Toronto artists. Jim Lemoire, a Toronto artist and educator, will be using the art as a jumping off point to talk about mainstream queer culture and dissent. Participants will also dabble in the DIY racket while checking out the zines of Toronto underground queerpunk filmaker Scott Treleaven.

To learn more about the exhibition, go to www.yorku.ca. To register for the workshop, call 416-736-5169.

Compiled by Karen Kleiss.

E-mail kkleiss @ thestar.ca.

Category: Society and Trends
Uniform subject(s): Sports and leisure
Edition: Ontario
Length: Medium, 327 words

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