Ask ten people what keeps them awake at night nowadays. My bet is that the word uncertainty will feature in at least half of the responses. Most would agree that our world has become a lot more uncertain recently. But what do we really mean by that … and is […]
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This will be my final post for 2021. I look forward to taking a modest break from writing during the holiday period and will reconnect with all of you wonderful readers during the second week of January. We’ve reached the end of another tumultuous year. Many of you will breathe
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Do you grant yourself the opportunity to marvel at your own uniqueness? Or do you find yourself regularly condemning the attributes and character traits that differentiate you from others? Or do you perhaps find yourself secretly despising others for how different they are from what you have come to regard
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Through life coaching one can easily transform one’s attitude and approach to life such that it becomes altogether more fulfilling, meaningful and enjoyable. In my opinion – one shared by a great many life coach practitioners – life coaching is the ideal solution for those seeking joy, happiness and inner
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Are you lacking clear direction? Does it feel like a thick fog has descended and you’re struggling to see the path you should follow, never mind visualise the destination? If so, you can take heart from the fact that you are most certainly not alone. Uncertainty and confusion Life coaches
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As we slowly begin to emerge from the doom and gloom that descended upon us as the global pandemic struck, with its many nasty consequences, many of us are left thinking “What now?” In today’s hectic world, an opportunity to think and reflect can often be ‘just what the doctor
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With few exceptions, just about anyone can benefit from the services of a good life coach. I’ve said it many times before. I don’t believe we, in the life coaching industry, have done ourselves any favours by coining and promoting the term ‘life coach’. It simply isn’t specific or descriptive
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It’s been a strange old year, not so! But don’t worry, things are about to get a LOT better. How do I know? Thirteen today! … Because New Insights Africa turns thirteen today!! And in doing so, we move beyond the dark perils of our ‘annus superstitious’ and emerge into
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Just imagine for a moment watching a game of pinball. Now, think of that game in the context of your very own life. Perhaps you can equate your life to the player of the game? You feel focused, excited, in control and determined to do the very best you can
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Yesterday marked the 12th anniversary of the launch of New Insights in South Africa (some 4 years after its original inception in the UK). I’d like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all of our supporters around the world. Whether you have trained through us
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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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Understanding how to manage your time wisely is highly relevant, whether you happen to be a life coach or just about anyone else for that matter. Time management is a subject close to everyone’s heart nowadays, given the hectic lives we tend to lead in these interesting times! Today, it’s
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Quite recently, an old school friend who I hadn’t heard from for some forty odd years made contact on Facebook. To my surprise it turned out that he had been living around the corner from us for many years. The ease with which we were able to reconnect after all
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As promised last time, here is a follow-up post about Learning Modalities. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read Part 1 please click here to open it in a new tab of your browser. Today’s post will make a lot more sense if you have the context from Part
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You might find it interesting to know that each of us has a unique preference for the way in which we like to receive, learn and internally represent new information and experiences. This knowledge can be particularly helpful in relationships and in careers that involve educating, helping or motivating people
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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
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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I’m sure that at some point in your life, if not right now, you have experienced a feeling of being stuck, or what a colleague of mine calls ‘stuckness’. It’s a common affliction and one that has a simple solution. Just recently, and quite uncharacteristically, I have been experiencing muscle
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