The original founder of New Insights, Neil Asher, and his lovely wife Natasha, are celebrating their twelfth wedding anniversary as I write this post. As Neil points out on his Facebook page, that’s some achievement nowadays … although, as I need to remind him, he’s got a long way to […]
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It’s that time of the year when the idea of ‘renewal’ is foremost in many people’s minds. After the re-energising holiday period, the advent of the New Year seems the ideal time for re-thinking, re-prioritising and re-growth. Unfortunately if you’re in employment, that’s exactly what your employer will be thinking
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Ten to one the title of this week’s post has left you a little bemused. After all, most of us just want to bring about a little change in ourselves, before we step up to more heady challenges, not so? But have you considered that, by bringing about a small
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This week South Africa – and the world – mourns the passing of a great man. Today, to celebrate the occasion of this 100th Life Coaching Insights Blog Post, we pay tribute to Nelson Mandela by sharing 15 of his utterances, all of which have profound significance and relevance in
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The business of New Insights is in training, developing and inspiring individuals to become life coaches and, in so doing, bring freedom, confidence and growth to people from all walks of life. Our certification programme is not ‘easy’. If it were, it would lack credibility and constitute a disservice to
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Visualise a desired future situation with great clarity, feeling and regularity and you are bound to realise it. As all good life coaches know, the process of setting great goals is an important stepping stone towards living the life you love. But just setting goals is not enough to ensure
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Life Coaching, for those who try it without really understanding what it involves, can come as something of a shock… … A powerful, eye opening and liberating shock in most cases, but a shock nonetheless. Before I explain, some context is necessary. “There are three types of people in this
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Last night I had the privilege of speaking on teleconference with one of my Personal Mentoring Groups for life coach trainees. I asked the members: \”What\’s holding you back?\” From their responses, I identified two key themes, difficulty prioritising their own stuff, and a lack of self confidence. No surprises
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Life, as we know, can be really challenging! Our ‘autopilot’ response to the challenging situations we face is often to engage in negative thought patterns that lead us to fall into a rut of worry and angst, so we end up feeling sorry for ourselves and this perpetuates our negative
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A number of the readers of this Blog are already life coaches, some may be considering life coaching as a career and others may simply enjoy the personal insights that they gain from reading a blog that derives its inspiration from life coaching. Whichever category you fit into, I hope
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You’ve heard of values before but when did you ever sit down and seriously contemplate your own set of personal values? If you’re like the vast majority of people, you’ll have to think long and hard about what your true values are because this is not normally something that we
How often have you struggled with a personal dilemma between taking action to bring about needed change in your life and resisting that action to prevent possible negative consequences? In Make This a Better Year – Part 1 I explained why people find it so difficult to embrace change. A
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In every aspect of your life, your attitude plays a big role. If you want to get ahead and be consistently happy and content, then you have to make your attitude your ally. Your attitude reflects in everything you do and everything that happens to you. Inherent in the Law
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To what extent do you allow others to dictate how you live your life, either expressly through their influence and/or manipulation, or perhaps through more subtle means including your own thoughts and perceptions? Maybe it\’s time to question just whose life it is you are leading? [box type=\”shadow\”]“How would your
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A wise man once said that FEAR means False Evidence Appearing Real. The vast majority of our fears never come to pass. Experts have estimated that around 90% of our fears are based on things that will never happen! That means we waste an awful lot of time and energy
Thanks go to Lindo Morolong, one of our trainee life coaches based in Botswana, who provided the inspiration for this week\’s post. Lindo queried a comment on the subject of choice made in one of our skills training manuals and forwarded me an interesting article he had written about making
One of the great things that my exposure to life coaching has taught me is the power of living in the moment – or living for now. If you don’t know what this means, hearing people talk about it may well irritate you. It did me. Being a person more
My son, who is quite a deep thinker for someone who is barely legal, recently drew my attention to the blog of one Nicky Hajal. Now I\’m afraid I\’ve never heard of Nicky but I have to admit to being rather taken by a post that he titled: \’Being Realistic
Rod Suskin hosts an entertaining weekly talk radio slot in which he gives personal ‘readings’ using astrological charts. I tuned in the other day to hear him pronouncing on the fact that Jupiter was in an ‘angry phase’. Of late our biggest planet has apparently been occupying a position in
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