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Why Change Seems So Difficult and How to Make it Easy (PART 2)

In Part 1 of this topic, I wrote about the importance of having the courage to bring about change in your life. Change is endemic to life. You can choose to embrace it and make it happen for you, or you can try to ignore it and allow it to […]

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Why Change Seems so Difficult and How to Make it Easy (PART 1)

No doubt you have heard the saying: “May you live in interesting times.” This is, supposedly, the English translation of an ancient Chinese curse! The Chinese language original has apparently never been found, although some say that the curse was based on a proverb that reads: “It’s better to be

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Escape the Procrastination Trap

Why do today, what you can put off till tomorrow? Many of us love to use this humorous twist on on old adage to explain away our procrastination tendencies. Let’s face it, we’re all guilty of occasional procrastination. It is quite natural human behaviour. But, for some of us, procrastination

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Are You Chasing Net Worth or Delivering Net Value?

In today’s world, much is made of the concept of net worth. For many, caught up in the hype of materialism that dominates our society, net worth is the only true measure of one’s success. However, the problem with net worth is that it is, by definition, a self centric

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A Beacon of Light in the Darkness

I joined the life coaching industry in 2007 after a twenty-seven year long corporate career that spanned disciplines as diverse as civil engineering construction, IT programme management and internal communications. Now, after 15 years dedicated to providing quality training for people who wish to become exceptional life coaches, I still

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New Year

Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work, and What Does!

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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Celebrate Your Incredible Uniqueness

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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Thought, intention, meditation and quantum physics

Although my passion lies in inspiring people through my writings and the work of the life coach training companies I own and run, my early training was in the field of civil engineering. Many might argue that the engineering and human motivation disciplines are largely incompatible or, at least, poor

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When You Just Don’t Know What You Want!

This week’s article draws inspiration from an issue that often perplexes our trainee life coaches. Helping clients to set inspiring, challenging, yet achievable goals is all part and parcel of the life coaching process. Some clients present with a rather hazy dream or aspiration that they want to crystallise and

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