Life coaching is designed to help people achieve desired outcomes that they would not normally be able to do when left to their own devices. Clients are usually surprised – some times spectacularly so – when they look back on what they have been able to accomplish with the services […]
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In early October last year I briefly broke with the tradition of written blog posts and offered you the opportunity to listen to a podcast of an interview I did with Paul Lowe. Paul, who runs a not for profit enterprise called HEARTS (Helping Everyone Achieve Results Towards Success) is
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At New Insights we believe that the ultimate aim of life coaching is to help people find and live the purpose that they are here on earth to carry out. Our transformational coaching programme is specifically designed to help clients achieve this. But the concept of life purpose is only
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By all accounts our beloved planet is in a real mess at the moment. And it’s all thanks to us. Have you heard of the so-called ‘Doomsday Clock’? It was designed as a symbol to represent the likelihood of a planet-wide man made catastrophe. Midnight on the clock denotes the
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Not long ago I was listening in on a conversation some friends of friends were having about their son and the struggles he had been experiencing with schoolwork and exams. The conversation went something like this: “Unfortunately he’s just not a gifted child, so we’ll have to accept that he
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Today I want to break with tradition and offer you a blog post that is not a blog post! This blog post is in fact a podcast, or at least it will introduce you to a podcast – organised by a gentleman called Paul Lowe – that I hope you’ll
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Have you ever taken time out to conduct an assessment of the nature and scale of the personal impact your life is having on our world? I suggest that the world might be a far better place if all of us were called on to do this from time to
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Have you noticed just how unequal and lopsided this world is? Are you aware that a staggering 70% of us hold a pitiful 3% of the entire amount of global wealth? Looked at another way, some 86% of global wealth is owned by less than 9% of the planet’s total
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One of the most common questions asked by those interested in training to become a life coach is this: “Is there a big enough market out there to support another life coach?” My answer to that is an unreserved “Yes”. Let me explain why. “Sell the problem you solve, not
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My wife and and I are blessed to be enjoying an idyllic holiday in Bali as I write this. Jenni has a noteworthy birthday coming up soon and has always had a strong attraction to the idea of visiting Bali … so a couple of months ago we thought, “It’s
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Perhaps you’ve dreamt of authoring a book or writing a regular blog on a subject or business that you’re really passionate about but the dream has stayed a dream because … well … the whole idea is just too scary? “What should I write about? Am I really good enough
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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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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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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
Times Are Changing Read More »
On our Facebook page we proudly proclaim support for Robert Byrne’s classic uttering: “The purpose of life is a life of purpose”. It’s such a lovely phrase, simple, yet rich in meaning. After all what can be more meaningful than living a life of purpose? But, if you have no
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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
