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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Each individual has a preferred way in which he or she likes to receive and learn new information and experiences. There are three main modalities or channels by which human expression takes place and through which information is absorbed. We refer to them as the \’VAK modalities\’. These modalities, or
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As the strapline on the weekly Blog alert proclaims, the featured articles are intended for a broad audience – people who want to get the most out of life! However, from time to time the articles I post may be of more direct relevance for readers who are already life
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If you think about it carefully you will, I am sure, appreciate that the process of thinking is really a process of asking and answering questions in your mind. Perhaps not everything you think is in the form of a question or answer. You may ‘think a statement’ like “That’s
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What a profound subject to kick off the new year with, you may be thinking! Well, I’m never one to turn down the prospect of an expanded readership, and if the title of the Blog Post can help achieve that without totally misleading the audience, then \”Why not,\” I say?
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At New Insights we are completely dedicated to training people to become life coaches. Our mission is to bring greater personal freedom, self confidence and growth to people from all walks of life and we make no bones about the fact that we like to do that, vicariously, through the
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The inspiration for this article comes from one of our trainee life coaches who posted a question on our Forum about how to deal with a client of his who was struggling to make changes in her life … and who claimed to be suffering from a mental illness. Let
One of the most simple yet powerfully liberating realisations that can come from life coaching is when we appreciate that we can take almost total control of our own lives … if we want to. I say “if we want to” because, for many people, a seemingly more convenient approach
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We have been conditioned into seeing the positives and negatives of life as incompatible, as good and bad or even good and evil. In this post we explore how positive and negative are fundamental to everything that exists, complementary aspects of a perfectly balanced life. “When we focus and bring
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Most life coaches that I know choose to work from home as it makes sense from both a practical and financial perspective. It is true that there are relatively few traditional employment opportunities for life coaches and some would say this is what drives them to set up their own
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This week, I would like to demonstrate the power of life coaching – when administered by a passionate and caring coach – to transform lives. I am privileged to have received an inspiring and beautiful account from a lady who, just yesterday, we featured on our Facebook page for having
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Today I’d like to share with you a very powerful tool that we use to great effect in the New Insights Life Coaching System. As you no doubt know, life coaching is all about building better futures for people and we do that through showing clients how to overcome a
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There are good reasons for the title of this week’s post as you will see shortly. But let me make a blatant admission right up front. One of the reasons was to see what effect it might have on the email ‘open rates’. The percentage of subscribers to this Blog
My thanks go to everyone who commented on the ‘Dream Big’ post written while on holiday in China – and to those trainees and coaches who put up with slight delays in support over the past two weeks or so. Now it\’s back to business as usual again … except
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Life coaching, when done professionally, by practitioners who are well trained and properly equipped, is remarkably effective in transforming lives because it works from within. That message seems to be reaching more and more people nowadays. With increasing regularity, I find myself receiving enquiries from people asking how they should
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It is the choices we make and the actions we take – not where we start out – that determines where we will end up. The above is a quote from my book, “A Boerewors Roll for the Soul – awaken to the magic of the life you love” and
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It’s easy to get despondent when you embark on a major positive change in your life only to find you slip back into old ways before you achieve what you set out to. For some, this regression can spell the end of the road as far as pursuing change goes.
