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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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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Life coaching is particularly effective for those people who, though mentally well and fully functional, are simply \’stuck in a rut\’! Let’s face it, we all have that stuck feeling at some stage of other in our lives. But that’s not to say that it isn’t hugely frustrating and debilitating
Be honest. Are you a people pleaser? There’s no reason to be shy in owning up to this practice as you would be one among very many. And as we all know people pleasers are just the nicest of people. They will go out of their way to help –
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It seems like just a few days ago that I was writing a brief review of 2016 and looking forward to a few weeks break. And now, here we are, well into a brand new year! Well, they say time flies while you’re having fun! How true. Welcome to another
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This will be the last Life Coaching Insights Blog Post for 2016 as I join many of you esteemed readers in taking a well deserved break for a few weeks! As the year draws to a close there will surely be no lack of pronouncements by the various media on
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Mainstream media would have had us believe that although the Brexit vote would be close, there was little doubt that, come the 23rd June, the British would opt for the ‘safe’ option and choose to stay in the European Union. Likewise, we were assured that in the US, despite Donald
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There’s no doubt about it. Coaching is currently a hot topic as celebrities, leaders, business people and the general public like you and me begin to appreciate the true power of professional coaching to improve performance and life in general. The term ‘coach’ originates from the 1830s and is believed
During my twenty-seven plus years working in the corporate world it struck me many times how people in big companies love to take simple concepts and wrap them up in complex terminology and jargon to impress others. Having attended all manner of training programmes and workshops in which complicating the
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You’ll no doubt have heard the old adage that change is the only constant in life. Well, given the twists and turns of life in the 21st century, it would seem that we can add \’increasing uncertainty\’ as another. If you tune into world news and events you’ll no doubt
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No matter who you are you deserve to live your dream. At New Insights dreams are very much our business – that’s making them a reality, of course. Our methodology is a simple yet powerful one. We train those people – who are passionate about helping other people – to
One of the critical skills of a life coach is knowing the right questions to ask and when to ask them. A common request I get from our trainee life coaches is to share what I believe are the most powerful questions to ask of clients. The New Insights Life
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Life coaching is one of the most rewarding and fulfilling careers that there is. It is also one that allows for great flexibility. Set up costs are very low by average business standards. There is no need to manage a workforce with all the stress that goes with that. There
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Let me ask you what may at first seem like a somewhat impertinent question: \”To what extent have you allowed your mind and your general thinking to be programmed?\” It’s a question I ask because, if you can find it within you to respond with curiosity, rather than take offence,
Any good dietician is likely to tell you: “You are what you eat.” Any good life coach will appreciate that the quality of the fuel you feed your body can have an important – perhaps even dramatic – bearing on the quality of your life … but it does not
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