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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Is anyone out there? That might sound like the musings of someone involved in the search for extraterrestrial life, or someone stuck after hours between floors in an office lift! But that cry for help is one that’s much closer to home and far more commonly experienced than most of
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Personal growth can only come from change and to embrace change we need to be aware of – and to be skilled at adapting – the type of conversations we have. [box type=\”shadow\”]\”The character of a man is known from his conversations.\” – Menander [/box]
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The thing I love about being in the life coaching industry is the regular exposure to individuals who are making a real difference in the world helping others to lead more authentic and fulfilling lives. That\’s inspiring. When such people also just happen to have scaled their own personal Everests
I\’m delighted to have met some truly wonderful and inspiring coaches during the course of the Advanced Coach Training workshop that we ran from Friday to Sunday. One such person was Jacques Gouws who recently gained certification. Jacques is doing great work to espouse the cause of life coaching in
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One thing I love about being in the people industry, working with life coaches, trainee life coaches and members of the public with an interest in self development, is that I never stop learning about life. Someone I don\’t know wrote me a heartfelt message not long ago, asking whether
This week I\’d like to continue with the theme of making this a better year for you. Last week I suggested that there are two main reasons why we humans like to make new year\’s resolutions only to fail dismally when it comes to seeing them out. In Part 1,
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It\’s February, the holidays are long gone and if you\’re like most, you\’ll be back into the routine you\’ve become accustomed to, with the shine rapidly disappearing from the New Year\’s resolutions you made a month ago. This is the time of the year when doubts start to creep in
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What you believe in will determine the actions you take and the consequences you expect—and will most likely get—from those actions. It follows then, that the beliefs you hold are pivotal in determining whether a life of abundance is attainable for you. “Believe me, you can have anything you want—and
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