It’s that time of the year when the idea of ‘renewal’ is foremost in many people’s minds. After the re-energising holiday period, the advent of the New Year seems the ideal time for re-thinking, re-prioritising and re-growth. Unfortunately if you’re in employment, that’s exactly what your employer will be thinking […]
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Ten to one the title of this week’s post has left you a little bemused. After all, most of us just want to bring about a little change in ourselves, before we step up to more heady challenges, not so? But have you considered that, by bringing about a small
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In what is the last blog post for this year, I’d like to show my appreciation to loyal readers by offering you a simple approach to make the new year ahead a truly special one. Forget about New Year’s resolutions. For many reasons, they don’t work. To effect real and
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This week South Africa – and the world – mourns the passing of a great man. Today, to celebrate the occasion of this 100th Life Coaching Insights Blog Post, we pay tribute to Nelson Mandela by sharing 15 of his utterances, all of which have profound significance and relevance in
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The business of New Insights is in training, developing and inspiring individuals to become life coaches and, in so doing, bring freedom, confidence and growth to people from all walks of life. Our certification programme is not ‘easy’. If it were, it would lack credibility and constitute a disservice to
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Visualise a desired future situation with great clarity, feeling and regularity and you are bound to realise it. As all good life coaches know, the process of setting great goals is an important stepping stone towards living the life you love. But just setting goals is not enough to ensure
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If you’re a manager, whether that be vice president of a multinational corporation or someone responsible for supervising two office cleaners, your ability to communicate effectively will have a vital bearing on your success. Communication is a fascinating and rewarding subject for anyone to study. Why? Well, for one thing,
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Do we live in the most stressful time ever? It was widely predicted in the 1960s that, within forty to fifty years, advances in technology would leave us with more time to ourselves, more time for recreational activities and leisure pursuits … and far less stress. Reportedly, it is at
Life Coaching, for those who try it without really understanding what it involves, can come as something of a shock… … A powerful, eye opening and liberating shock in most cases, but a shock nonetheless. Before I explain, some context is necessary. “There are three types of people in this
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Last night I had the privilege of speaking on teleconference with one of my Personal Mentoring Groups for life coach trainees. I asked the members: \”What\’s holding you back?\” From their responses, I identified two key themes, difficulty prioritising their own stuff, and a lack of self confidence. No surprises
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Life, as we know, can be really challenging! Our ‘autopilot’ response to the challenging situations we face is often to engage in negative thought patterns that lead us to fall into a rut of worry and angst, so we end up feeling sorry for ourselves and this perpetuates our negative
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A number of the readers of this Blog are already life coaches, some may be considering life coaching as a career and others may simply enjoy the personal insights that they gain from reading a blog that derives its inspiration from life coaching. Whichever category you fit into, I hope
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You’ve heard of values before but when did you ever sit down and seriously contemplate your own set of personal values? If you’re like the vast majority of people, you’ll have to think long and hard about what your true values are because this is not normally something that we
In Cape Town, where I currently live, we have experienced a rather unusually cold and wet winter. So when the sun and blue skies made a welcome appearance on the weekend I decided to get myself down to the beach. I\’m so glad I did. It was thoroughly rejuvenating and
The past two decades may well come to be known as the era that redefined personal communications. The mid 1990s saw the start of the email revolution and an early explosion in the use of mobile phone technology and SMS or text messaging. It\’s hard to believe but it\’s less
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This week I\’d like to offer my readers inspiration in a refreshingly different form! As you will have gathered I am a great believer in the power that words can have to motivate and inspire us. Very often, the most powerful food for thought derives from just a few choice
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As much as life coaching aims to reconnect people with their inner beings and revitalise belief in their own power and abilities, it also seeks to enhance their capacity to relate to other people in ways that are mutually beneficial. The New Insights life coaching system includes wonderful sessions on
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How often have you struggled with a personal dilemma between taking action to bring about needed change in your life and resisting that action to prevent possible negative consequences? In Make This a Better Year – Part 1 I explained why people find it so difficult to embrace change. A
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In every aspect of your life, your attitude plays a big role. If you want to get ahead and be consistently happy and content, then you have to make your attitude your ally. Your attitude reflects in everything you do and everything that happens to you. Inherent in the Law
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