In today’s hurly burly world where there never seems to be enough time for everything that needs to be done, what would you give to increase your effectiveness, or perhaps even double it? We often hear how efficient people are but we don’t often talk about personal effectiveness. What’s the […]
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I’m sure that at some point in your life, if not right now, you have experienced a feeling of being stuck, or what a colleague of mine calls ‘stuckness’. It’s a common affliction and one that has a simple solution. Just recently, and quite uncharacteristically, I have been experiencing muscle
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I’d like to offer you something a little different this week. Instead of hearing words of inspiration from me you’ll get to hear them from twenty different people! I cast the net around for some lesser known \’quotes to inspire\’ that would not be out of place in the reference
This Blog, as I trust loyal readers will know, is for people who want to live their best lives. It aims to inspire and to offer new insights on life, living with purpose and experiencing peace and joy. Recent events, highlighted by – but certainly not limited to – the
This week’s post is a little different from the conventional articles you’re used to on this Blog. I want to take this opportunity to invite you to join what I think is a wonderful initiative that has, as its goal, to inspire change for at least 1,000,000 lives through coaching
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Thank you for being a loyal reader of Life Coaching Insights. The year is winding down and this will be the final post for 2014. Even my keyboard deserves a break! I thought I would leave you to enjoy the festive season with something to contemplate as you consider the
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We have something to celebrate today (along with a special offer for aspirant trainee life coaches!) Jerry Cox is a journalist who writes for the New York Times. He was tasked with creating an infographic, listing the Top 100 Life Coaching related Blog Sites in the world. We are extremely
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Last week I posted a fascinating article by a young New York life coach who shared her 30 life lessons. It got me thinking about the most important lessons that my involvement with life coaching has taught me. I have to admit, there are a LOT but I’ve chosen what
I have written at length about why I believe life coaching is such a fulfilling and meaningful career but is it really a commercial proposition? I mean we all want a business that makes us feel fulfilled … but if we can’t make enough money from it to survive then
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With Valentine’s Day clearly in our sights, I thought it would be appropriate to expound on the value of Love. I came across this rather cute fable on the Internet. It looked to me that it may have been translated from another language, so I edited it to make it
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
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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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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A wise man once said that FEAR means False Evidence Appearing Real. The vast majority of our fears never come to pass. Experts have estimated that around 90% of our fears are based on things that will never happen! That means we waste an awful lot of time and energy
My son, who is quite a deep thinker for someone who is barely legal, recently drew my attention to the blog of one Nicky Hajal. Now I\’m afraid I\’ve never heard of Nicky but I have to admit to being rather taken by a post that he titled: \’Being Realistic
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
One thing I love about being in the people industry, working with life coaches, trainee life coaches and members of the public with an interest in self development, is that I never stop learning about life. Someone I don\’t know wrote me a heartfelt message not long ago, asking whether
I want to take this opportunity to wish readers a very special, exciting and successful year ahead. 2013 has a good ring about it! With all the speculation about what might happen at the end of 2012 which marked the end of the Mayan calendar, I\’m surprised at the lack
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