‘Money makes the world go round’ is a saying that originated from the musical ‘Cabaret’ written in the 1960s. The implication of the saying is that without money everything in our world would come to a crashing halt – and given our total dependence on it as a means of […]
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One of the critical skills of a life coach is knowing the right questions to ask and when to ask them. A common request I get from our trainee life coaches is to share what I believe are the most powerful questions to ask of clients. The New Insights Life
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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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‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, the wise old adage goes. Its just such a pity that this sage advice goes unheeded so often. I guess we can all lay claim to having experienced being judged or, if we are honest, judging others unfairly for what we see on
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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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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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We live in what seems to be an immensely challenged and challenging world. The vast and growing number of people living on earth today pose an unprecedented challenge to the ability of our planet and its environment to sustain life as we have always known it. At the same time,
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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I’ve heard it said so many times … “life is tough”, “life is an uphill battle”, “life is such a struggle”. Why is it that so many people feel aggrieved about the quality of their life? Surely that’s not how life on earth was intended to be? What’s going on
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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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This Blog, as I trust loyal readers will know, is for people who want to live their best lives. It aims to inspire and to offer new insights on life, living with purpose and experiencing peace and joy. Recent events, highlighted by – but certainly not limited to – the
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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Very simply put, your personal values are those things that you value or judge to be important in life. This includes principles, ideals, standards of behaviour and ways of doing things that you believe should be upheld or adhered to. [box type=\”shadow\”]“Your beliefs become your thoughts, Your thoughts become your
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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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It’s interesting how the mindsets of people who, on the face of it, appear equally capable, can be so different. Some are what we would call empowered, in other words confident in their ability, in control of their life and willing to take on life’s challenges. Others are disempowered, in
