When we launched New Insights Africa in 2007 and rebranded New Insights UK when the two businesses were brought together in 2012, we introduced three words which represent the aspiration we have for people who are exposed to our training and our coaching system: FREEDOM – CONFIDENCE – GROWTH Personal […]
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
Sometimes life seems patently unfair, doesn’t it. It seems that, out of the blue things can happen that you feel you just don’t deserve. A string of unfortunate events can make you feel that life has ‘got it in for you.’ There’s no question that life is full of challenges
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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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Posting while on holiday was not part of the plan … but I am excited to share with you my experience of Beijing thus far as I feel it has relevance in this Blog on human motivation. Let me start by being completely honest with you. China is not a
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
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
New Insights Africa held its Advanced Coach Training workshop (or ACT) over the course of the weekend just passed at a place called Monkey Valley. The setting is one of great beauty although it has now been seriously impacted by the massive swathe of fires that have swept through Cape
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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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Traditionally we are accustomed to seeing the pursuit of success and wealth as completely divergent from the path of self-development and spirituality. Consciously or subconsciously we tend to divide our pursuits into two broad categories: inner development and outer achievement. But when we take a closer look, we see that
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The problem with the term ‘life coaching’ is that it’s just not terribly descriptive. The net effect of that is that members of the public tend to hold very different preconceptions of what life coaching is really all about. In particular, life coaching often gets confused with counselling or mentoring,
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They say necessity is the mother of invention. Over the last two weeks I have also learnt that crisis is the mother of reinvention! Don’t be alarmed. It’s not as if I have been beset by any affliction or tragedy. No, fortunately nothing like that. But I have spent the
At this early stage of the year with the holidays and New Year\’s celebrations still fresh in the mind many people have lofty ideas about what they\’d like to achieve and the changes that they\’d like to make. Sadly, most New Year\’s resolutions are simply that – ideas – lacking
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