Creating a joyful life of meaning and purpose isn’t complicated, crazy, or confusing with the right tools.

I help people from all backgrounds cut through the noise and create flourishing lives of purpose, meaning, and impact.

How I Help

I help people escape the sufferring that comes from living without meaning. Here are some of the consequences of living without meaning:

Depression
Anxiety
Boredom
Lonliness
Existential dread
Addiction

Procrastination
Impulsivity
Low motivation
Fatigue
Health problems
Insomnia

Basically, if you don’t know why your life matters, you’ll be living well below your potential in so many ways.

How do you know if you’re truly living with meaning?

Ask yourself these questions. If you can confidently answer each one and you feel good about your answers, you likely have a strong sense of meaning. If you struggle to find a clear answer to any of these, you can likely trace the lines back to one or more of the issues on the list above.

What do I want to exist even if I didn’t exist?
Does my life make a difference toward it?
Is it something that’s real?
Does it matter to anyone else?

If you had a hard time with any of those questions, let’s chat. I can help you create a life of meaning and fulfillment.

COMMON MESSAGES I HEAR

(I’ve also felt most of these myself at one point or another)

I don’t feel motivated

I get up each day and go through the motions, but I don’t enjoy it. I do fun things, but they seem meaningless most of the time. I wish I had the passion back that I did when I was younger.

I feel disconnected

I love my kids and my wife, but at the same time, I feel like I can’t offer what they need. I’m exhausted, impatient, and easily angered. I wish I was more in love with my wife and had more to give my kids and family.

I feel burned out by work

I have a good job that pays the bills, but I hate what I do. I’ve worked hard to get here, but the grind has worn me out and I don’t enjoy it like I used to. I dread Sunday nights before I have to get up on Monday to clock in.

I’ve let myself go physically

I used to be in great shape. I had lots of energy and could do anything I wanted. Now I feel like I eat too much, sleep too little, don’t have good habits or balance, and I just feel crappy all the time.

I’m stuck in bad habits

I feel like I’ve picked up some ugly habits and addictions over the years for various reasons, but mostly because I wasn’t confident in myself or didn’t know who I really was. I feel a lot undisciplined and trapped and a lot of shame.

I feel impatient and angry

I lose my temper with my family, coworkers, or just about anyone way too often and too easily. I just feel irritable and defensive all the time.

The simple solution…

The methodolgy is simple. I bring a no-nonsense, down to earth approach to solving significant problems. No crazy woo woo stuff and nothing that will take a PhD to figure out. Just common-sense explanations to practices and approaches that will get you beyond yourself and into a better state of being.

Grounded In Science

All methods, approaches, and principles used in Down To Earth Coaching are strictly based in evidence-based practices that have been published in peer-reviewed journals, and verified to be effective in bringing about meaningful change.

Proven Through Practice

Everything taught here at Down To Earth Coaching have been time-tested and documented in many and various wisdom traditions, religions, and long-standing cultures. The experience of generations proves their efficacy and validity.

Provided Without Pretense

All too often, coaching and self-improvement programs are overly complicated, touted as the be-all-end-all, as a magic bullet, or claimed to be some newly discovered proprietary process.

Down To Earth Coaching is none of those, just good old common sense wisdom packaged up in a pragmatic and easily implemented package.

I’ll be honest, there isn’t a magic bullet, a quick fix, or a shortcut to solve these and other challenges and roadblocks in life.

But the good news is that if you’re 100% committed to changing your life for the better, I can guide you to discover and resolve the root cause of the problems that are holding you back using pragmatic, down to earth skills and tools that don’t require a degree in psychology or a belief in pseudoscientific teachings.

Here’s a list of what we’ll work in 1:1 coaching

Creating an empowered mindset
Developing habits of gratitude, curiosity, and compassion that stick
Identifying your true core values
Finding your universal and situational purpose
Learning tools to identify and replace limiting beliefs whenever needed
Living with integrity to your values and purposes
Developing healthy relationships with self, significant other, family, and everyone in your life
Physical fitness as part of your purpose
Stewardship and responsibility in all aspects of life
Developing greater charisma to further your influence for good
Learning to be present, spontaneous, and engaging
Finding a passion for learning, exploring, and sharing life with others
Developing a healthy relationship with money
Setting goals, intentions, and habits
Identifying and tempering the ego
Any additional specific skills or tools you need to move forward with purpose and meaning

Who is Chris Allen

I’m Chris. I’m nobody special.

I became a certified life coach after going through the school of hard knocks.

Not too long after I graduated from college, I got extremely sick with a debilitating illness and couldn’t work, take care of my family, or do anything other than lay in bed pretty much all day and night. I was put on disability leave and the world’s leading doctors, at the Mayo Clinic where I worked, told me to be prepared to spend the rest of my life in this condition.

Life was pretty miserable. I couldn’t provide for my family, I became a huge burden on my wife and wasn’t emotionally or physically available for her or our two young children. I was pretty worthless for just about anything.

There were nights when I’d lay awake pondering how life would be better for everyone – including myself – if I weren’t in it. I had lost my identity and any motivation and passion for living.

I was hopeless… until, through what I consider a miracle, I discovered a treatment that gave me my life back.
Since that day, I’ve dedicated all my energy to living a life of meaning and purpose. I’ve completed years of training and read copious volumes of scientific literature in the field of purposeful, meaningful, and joyful living, but more importantly, I practice what I preach and feel deeply that the methods I’ve compiled over many years can help anyone struggling to create an impactful and fulfilling life.

The program I offer is not some magical proprietary process promising instant or even near instant results (although sometimes that does happen). My program is based on practical application of both time-tested traditions such as prayer, journaling, meditation, gratitude practices, taking good care of your mind and body, and being mindful of your emotions and thoughts. The skills to implement thes are all pragmatic, scalable, and easily implemented into any life. They’ve also been proven through scientific research and show significant benefit beyond just placebo.

If it’s so common sense, why hire a coach?

I get this question sometimes adn the answer really lies in a question. If you’ve tried to make changes in the past and have failed, do you think having a coach to hold you accountable and call you on your own BS would help?

The answer is yes, coaches help us stay accountable and provide easily digestible tools and instructions to facilitate our growth and improvement. The scientific literature supports that, but you have to find the right coach.

Am I the right coach for you?

Only you can answer that question, but I can give you this guidance: If you’re looking to find more meaning, purpose, fulfillment, and joy in life, but you’re not into new age spirituality or similar approaches or if you don’t want to follow some rah rah! gimmicky program that works with smoke and mirror feel-good affirmative practices, I’m likely the right coach for you.

To learn more about working with me, watch the webinar linked below or sign up for a free exploration call to get all your questions answered.

Work with me

Client Testimonials

Working with Chris is awesome! He totally got where I was coming from. He helped me find a better balance in life so I can spend time doing things I love to do and also get in all the work I need. I don’t feel burned out anymore. I loved his program and how it all connected life together. I can see why building a legacy is so important now. – Jason Hoskins

Chris was so helpful! He listened carefully and didn’t interject or jump to conclusions. He asked deep and thought-provoking questions and then let me sit and process the thoughts and feelings I was having without judgment. I feel like I have a whole new outlook on life and how to approach problems. – Theresa Minor

Chris really made a huge difference in my life. I was stuck with some bad habits I didn’t realize were impacting my life so negatively. He helped me see them for what they are without any shame, helped me create a plan to solve them, and held me accountable to the plan. – Ruth Teufel

Chris asks the most thought-provoking questions. He really got me to think about things from a new perspective and that made all the difference. – Clint Dyer