At New Insights, we specialise in training people to become life coaches. So, we get to enjoy the privilege of receiving wonderful testimonials from many of those we train. The practical part of our training programme requires trainees to do extensive practice coaching with volunteer clients. And when those practice […]
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Life coaching … it’s not the most descriptive term, is it? Perhaps it’s for this reason that life coaching is often misunderstood – and why many people who would benefit tremendously from being coached, don’t give it enough consideration. So, by exposing a few commonly held myths, I’d like to
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2018. It has a good ring to it don’t you think? The number eight has something of an exciting quality to it, shaped, as it is, like a vertical rendition of the mathematical symbol for infinity. Infinity denotes an infinitely large number. You could also think of it as the
2018. Year of Suppressed Dreams or Infinite Possibility? Read More »
Wow! It’s almost time to wave goodbye to yet another year. As I look forward to a few weeks break from writing, I offer you a final post for the year – one that could honestly change your life. 🙂 Depending on your hemisphere, you may be preparing for the
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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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
Life Coaching: A Career for the 21st Century Read More »
“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
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
Life Coaching that Transforms Read More »
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
Respect for Diversity Read More »
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
Your Life Your Choice Read More »
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
Power to the People Read More »
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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Freedom, Confidence, Growth. This is the tagline we use at New Insights. Why? Because we believe these are the main personal attributes that our life coach training and our related life coaching programme can impart, build and develop. But what exactly does it mean to experience personal freedom? [box type=\”shadow\”]“The
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