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. [box type=\”shadow\”]“When we focus and
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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.
New Insights offers a free online journaling platform with a 52-week self-guided course that aims to enhance self awareness. Keeping a journal may not be for everybody – I know that I was less than keen when my life coach first suggested it some years ago – but the fact
With a general election being held in the UK and a leadership contest for the main opposition party coming to a head in South Africa in the past few days, it seems quite appropriate that leadership should be the theme of this week’s post. All of us are affected by
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Last week I dealt with the subject of how beliefs develop. This week I would like to explore how to change those beliefs that don’t serve your best interests. The first and most important thing to understand is that beliefs do not represent the truth. Beliefs are simply strongly held
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Have you ever taken time to explore how your beliefs came to be your beliefs … and why? Beliefs can be very powerful motivational, or de-motivational forces and, as such, time spent considering their origin and how they develop can be fascinating and the personal insights revealing. Life coaching involves
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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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I’m sure you’ve read that saying that goes something like: “If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” A poll released by Gallup in 2013 showed that a meagre 13% of people worldwide actually get enjoyment out of going to work. Perhaps
Building rapport with others is a fundamental skill required by anyone wishing to develop more effective and beneficial relationships. And that pretty much means all of us! Of course, this skill is a foundation requirement for any would-be life coach. After all, how can you help someone to be the
Life coaching is, without doubt, one of the most fulfilling and rewarding careers that exist. After all, what can be more inspiring than helping other people to find their passion, rise above mediocrity and achieve things that they otherwise would not? Yet many life coaches have difficulty marketing themselves and
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One of the fascinating concepts that we deal with in the Communications module of the New Insights life coach training programme is that of Projection. It’s something that most of our trainees struggle to grasp, perhaps even resist, at first. But when they ‘get it’ they are often quite overwhelmed
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