Understanding how to manage your time wisely is highly relevant, whether you happen to be a life coach or just about anyone else for that matter. Time management is a subject close to everyone’s heart nowadays, given the hectic lives we tend to lead in these interesting times! Today, it’s […]
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If you’re like most people, you would probably love to be able to change your life for the better … but it just seems so hard, right? Actually, though it may seem hard, it’s really rather easy once you understand and can apply a few simple yet powerful concepts. “You
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I watched a reality TV show last night featuring couples who are experiencing marital issues. At one point I found myself nodding my head and smiling wryly. One of the partners in a couple featured on the programme was engaged in a one on one discussion with a relationship coach.
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Your beliefs will have a profound effect on the actions you take and the consequences you expect – and will most likely get – from those actions. Rather like a pair of spectacles, your beliefs act as lenses through which you view the world and decide on how to react
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Quite recently, an old school friend who I hadn’t heard from for some forty odd years made contact on Facebook. To my surprise it turned out that he had been living around the corner from us for many years. The ease with which we were able to reconnect after all
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“Coaches HATE selling” screamed the headline of an advert for an online course that I saw on Facebook recently. It was clearly aimed at life coaches who, well, find the idea of selling their services difficult, to say the least. And I would guess that that applies to most who
Recently, we had cause to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the launch of New Insights in South Africa (and fourteen years since the brand was originally established in the UK). A good friend asked me about how the business had changed over the years. He looked curious when I explained
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As promised last time, here is a follow-up post about Learning Modalities. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read Part 1 please click here to open it in a new tab of your browser. Today’s post will make a lot more sense if you have the context from Part
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You might find it interesting to know that each of us has a unique preference for the way in which we like to receive, learn and internally represent new information and experiences. This knowledge can be particularly helpful in relationships and in careers that involve educating, helping or motivating people
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New Insights is unique in offering a structured 13-session coaching system for its trainee coaches to use in practice coaching and – if they choose – in their professional coaching endeavours after certification. When the system is properly followed, the coaching process takes coach and client around six months or
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Is there anyone who can say, with hand on heart, that they are not in awe of – or at the very least inspired by – the amazing diversity of scenery, climate, trees, plants, animals, fish and even insects that we are so privileged to be surrounded by on this
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Have you ever noticed how these three little words, could, would and should, tend to dominate our language? They all have many important and rather innocuous uses of course, … but they can also be reflective of a life not lived to its full potential. I’m referring, in particular, to
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Politically and socioeconomically speaking, the world is pretty unstable right now. I doubt many readers would disagree with this. Although New Insights is proud to have trainee coaches and certified coaches all over the world, our main markets are the UK and South Africa. And right now both countries, in
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If you are a regular reader of this Blog and you’re not already a coach, or training to become one, there’s a good chance that becoming a life coach is something you have given serious consideration to. If so, I’ve been in the business long enough now to know what’s
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We’re celebrating! Life Coaching Insights just won an award. Feedspot adjudged us to be one of the top 100 life coach related blogs internationally (you can click on the award to read more). In fact, we cracked their top 20, being placed 18th – a great honour indeed. One of
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Life coaching can be described or explained in many ways. Here’s one description that I coined: “Life coaching involves a programme of sessions or mini-interventions that help empower individuals to grow and develop rapidly through exposure to tools and techniques that assist them to open their eyes to what really
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You just have to read the papers or listen to the news and you’ll probably agree that it\’s one crazy world that we live in! But what if you made a conscious decision not to tune into the media? How would the world seem to you then? The point here
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Our planet is both a wondrous and downright scary place to be right now. We humans are naturally predisposed to seek the safety of the status quo rather than embrace change. Yet, just about everything around us is changing and there’s no sign of that letting up. Whether you take
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We certainly live in interesting times! Confucius would have a very wry smile on his face if he could witness the political, economic and social turmoil of the world we live in today. This Blog is not an appropriate forum in which to express political views but I have to
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