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Heads Up: Great New Life Loading

By 2025 the number of mobile devices in use worldwide is expected to reach more than 18bn. That’s more than two for every person on this planet!

Mobile technology has become indispensable for certain day-to-day applications … but some keep us ‘heads down’ with features that are highly addictive but with questionable value when it comes to promoting our quality of life.

In this post, Bill considers the emergent heads-down culture and suggests that we should try to resist being victims of its insidious effects.

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The Power of People

The power of the collective to bring about change is seldom questioned and often clearly demonstrated during democratic election times such as that we are witnessing in 2024.

But the power of the individual is given less attention, with many doubting their ability to impact the world in any meaningful way.

In today’s post, Bill explains why this is doubt is so misplaced.

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Life Lessons From a Strange Yet Mystical Land

Life lessons are there to be had in many corners of our troubled, yet special world.

For Bill, one place in particular stands out for his experience of the authentic love, respect and care shown for humanity.

In this blog post, he advocates that we should expect the unexpected in this mystical land.

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Be True to Yourself

The pressures and demands of the modern day world are such that many of us find our lives are trained on trying to meet the expectations of others. In the process we become further slowly more disconnected from who we are and what it is that is important to us.

If you find yourself constantly wrestling with what you feel you should do versus what you inwardly feel you need to do, Be True to Yourself is written for you!

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When Following the Science is Not Enough

When it comes to the study of human motivation, those who remain fixated on ‘following the science’ are likely to be disappointed.

In this post, Bill argues that the power of life coaching lies in its ability to recognise and harness concepts that cannot be neatly explained in scientific terms. As he implies, the secret to living the life you love requires acceptance that there is a certain ‘magical ‘ element to life.

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8 Ways to Deal with Stress

Levels of chronic stress are unprecedented in today’s world. Ironically, technological advancements that promised to give us more time for leisure and enjoyment are at the root of this problem.

In this post, Bill suggests eight ways in which stress can be dealt with.

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Celebrate Your Significance

We live in an unpredictable and uncertain world. As we witness the magnitude of the events unfolding around us it is all too easy to take on feelings of powerlessness. Such feelings can cause us to start doubting our own significance, or relevance in the world.

And yet, we each have an important role in the growth and evolution of the planet and the universe. Each one of us is leaving an indelible mark on the course that that evolution takes.

In this podcast episode, Bill encourages listeners to recognise this and celebrate their undoubted significance!

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7 Key Life Insights

I love being in the people industry. Working with life coaches, trainee life coaches, and members of the public with an interest in self-development, ensures that I am constantly learning about people. And it’s people that make the world go around! Some time ago a teacher, and avid reader of

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Never Let Fear of Failure Hold You Back

We all know the old idiom: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!” But many of us never get to embrace this sage advice because we are too fearful of failing. ‘Success’ is overhyped as the ultimate goal that we humans are expected to pursue in life. We

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Life Coaching: Preventative Psychology?

We are living in paradoxical times. We frequently read of the increasingly dramatic strides that are being made in our scientific understanding of physical and mental wellness, and of new drugs being developed to treat related ailments. And yet, it seems very clear that there is an equally dramatic increase

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Motivation and Staying Motivated

I’m just lacking motivation! We’ve all said it and we’ve all experienced the listless feeling that comes with a lack of motivation. Motivation and staying motivated is a much bigger issue for some than it is for others. What exactly is motivation? Why do some struggle more than others? And

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The Value of Self Reflection

Completion of a self reflection questionnaire is the final step in the New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme. These submissions provide valuable insights into the new coaches that we are about to unleash upon the world to help perpetuate our mission of bringing freedom, self confidence and growth

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Why Change Seems so Difficult and How to Make it Easy (PART 1)

No doubt you have heard the saying: “May you live in interesting times.” This is, supposedly, the English translation of an ancient Chinese curse! The Chinese language original has apparently never been found, although some say that the curse was based on a proverb that reads: “It’s better to be

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Escape the Procrastination Trap

Why do today, what you can put off till tomorrow? Many of us love to use this humorous twist on on old adage to explain away our procrastination tendencies. Let’s face it, we’re all guilty of occasional procrastination. It is quite natural human behaviour. But, for some of us, procrastination

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