It seems like yesterday – but its actually four years ago now – that I wrote and self published my first (and, so far, only) book, “A Boerewors Roll for the Soul – Awaken to the magic of the life you love.” I can honestly say I did it for […]
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Let’s face it. Most of us have been brought up to believe that the answers to life’s challenges lie ‘out there somewhere’. “Someone out there will have come up with a solution, it’s just a matter of finding it,” is a common way in which most of us respond to
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My nineteen year old son bade us goodbye at the airport on Monday as he embarked on a five month trip to China where he will be teaching English as part of an internship arrangement during his post school gap year. Just over two months ago my daughter, who chose
Does change (or lack of it) leave you feeling anxious or inspired? One of the things that makes life coaching so effective, is the techniques that coaches use to uncover what it is that inspires their clients and to plant seeds in that fertile ground for positive improvement. I use
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I can’t tell you how fulfilling it is to receive messages from trained coaches explaining how they are using our New Insights life coaching programme to change the world in relatively small yet very positive and sometimes surprising ways! Last week I was contacted by certified coach, Christel Rohrs, who
Not long ago I issued a certificate to a trainee life coach who had used up all but one week of the 24 months available to her to complete our course. \”At least she made it,\” I thought, speculating that she was one of many of us who specialise in
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I remember well the sleepless nights of a student desperately trying to complete a major assignment due in a few days time, silently cursing that I hadn’t started on the project many months ago when it had first been issued. “Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.” ― Charles
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Numerous workforce surveys have shown that only about 20-30% of people are actively engaged in their jobs. The percentage who actually love what they do for a living is smaller still. How about you? Are you doing what you love? Or, are you doing what you’re doing because you see
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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 2013, 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 meaningful
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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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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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One of the questions most frequently asked by those keen to consider life coaching as a career is “What does it take?” My answer is always the same. You simply need to have integrity, a real desire – I call it a passion – for working with people, a willingness
Thanks go to Lindo Morolong, one of our trainee life coaches based in Botswana, who provided the inspiration for this week\’s post. Lindo queried a comment on the subject of choice made in one of our skills training manuals and forwarded me an interesting article he had written about making
Laura Gray is a trainee life coach with New Insights in the UK and one with a very special talent. Laura\’s passion for helping to bring about positive change in the lives of others is uniquely showcased in this wonderful poem that she wrote asking for offers of money and
Inspiration for this week\’s post comes from a gentleman called Edgar Guest, an American poet born in England in the late nineteenth century, who penned some 11,000 poems and went on to become known as the People\’s Poet. As humans we are often easily dismissive of tough challenges, finding it
Personal growth can only come from change and to embrace change we need to be aware of – and to be skilled at adapting – the type of conversations we have. [box type=\”shadow\”]\”The character of a man is known from his conversations.\” – Menander [/box]
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This week I\’d like to continue with the theme of making this a better year for you. Last week I suggested that there are two main reasons why we humans like to make new year\’s resolutions only to fail dismally when it comes to seeing them out. In Part 1,
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