The pressures and demands of the modern day world are such that many of us find our lives are trained on trying to meet the expectations of others. In the process we become further slowly more disconnected from who we are and what it is that is important to us.
If you find yourself constantly wrestling with what you feel you should do versus what you inwardly feel you need to do, Be True to Yourself is written for you!
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Ask any life coach what they do and the chances are high that the word change will crop up in the description they choose to share. At New Insights we like to think of life coaches as agents for change. Helping people bring about the changes that they desire in
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One of the most valuable benefits of life coaching is the tools and techniques it offers to remove and replace deeply ingrained beliefs that don’t serve us in achieving our goals and dreams. This may sound strange to anyone new to life coaching. After all, we choose what we want
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Visit the New Insights Facebook page and you’ll see the ‘Agents for Change’ pic below emblazoned in the header image. If you want a simple short version of the answer to the question: “What is a life coach” then ‘agent for change’ is right on the money! That’s because life
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The New Insights Life Coaching System is designed around a proprietary model, with the acronym I-N-S-I-G-H-T-S and is transformational in its effect. The ten questions that follow, go to the heart of the model and provide a glimpse of its application in coaching. Take time to reflect on – and
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Recent events around the world have served to strengthen my belief that, whereas there are many on our planet who seek to build unity, bring about harmony and spread love, there are other forces clearly bent on sowing division, creating distrust and fomenting anger. What’s new? you may ask. This
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In late 2009 I did something I had always wanted to do. I wrote a book. Believe it or not, the idea started out, earlier that same year, as a simple joke. Chicken Soup for the Soul One beautiful summer’s day, Jenni (my wife) and I were lounging around our
My inspiration for the previous post, Anxiety, the Scourge of Our Time, came from a New Insights certified life coach by the name of Peter Walter. Peter lives in Letchworth in the UK and specialises in transformational coaching for people dealing with anxiety issues. This week, I’m proud to feature
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Just imagine for a moment watching a game of pinball. Now, think of that game in the context of your very own life. Perhaps you can equate your life to the player of the game? You feel focused, excited, in control and determined to do the very best you can
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You’re probably not consciously aware of it but you will have rules for just about anything and everything of any importance in your life. If you’re not in training with New Insights as a life coach, then it is quite likely that a curious and possibly sceptical frown is creeping
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My good friend and philanthropist, Paul Lowe, is the founder of the popular podcast series Speaking from our HEARTS, that aims to get inspirational messages and stories out to the world. There are now over 100 clips in the podcast series. I am privileged to have been involved in two
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Do you suffer from a nagging doubts about your own ability to achieve the life you really want? If so, please rest assured that you’re not alone. My involvement with life coaching has helped me appreciate that most of us grossly underestimate our ability to live the life of our
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“I am useless at writing exams. I fail every time I sit an exam. I always have to rewrite. It always happens. This is not a belief so much as an established fact. What can I do?” Life coaches are specially trained with tools and techniques to help their clients
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By all accounts our beloved planet is in a real mess at the moment. And it’s all thanks to us. Have you heard of the so-called ‘Doomsday Clock’? It was designed as a symbol to represent the likelihood of a planet-wide man made catastrophe. Midnight on the clock denotes the
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Today I want to break with tradition and offer you a blog post that is not a blog post! This blog post is in fact a podcast, or at least it will introduce you to a podcast – organised by a gentleman called Paul Lowe – that I hope you’ll
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Have you noticed just how unequal and lopsided this world is? Are you aware that a staggering 70% of us hold a pitiful 3% of the entire amount of global wealth? Looked at another way, some 86% of global wealth is owned by less than 9% of the planet’s total
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“Everybody lives by selling something.” This simple but profound statement is attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson in the late 1800s. Few people will claim that selling comes naturally to them. Most would profess to be ambivalent about selling and a number of us would even recoil at the idea of
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One thing we try hard not to do at New Insights is to be overly rigid about expecting our trainee life coaches to embrace the principles that we advocate. After all, one of the foundation stones for effective life coaching is having a deep tolerance and appreciation for the different
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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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