Your beliefs will have a profound effect on the actions you take and the consequences you expect – and will most likely get – from those actions. Rather like a pair of spectacles, your beliefs act as lenses through which you view the world and decide on how to react […]
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Quite recently, an old school friend who I hadn’t heard from for some forty odd years made contact on Facebook. To my surprise it turned out that he had been living around the corner from us for many years. The ease with which we were able to reconnect after all
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“Coaches HATE selling” screamed the headline of an advert for an online course that I saw on Facebook recently. It was clearly aimed at life coaches who, well, find the idea of selling their services difficult, to say the least. And I would guess that that applies to most who
Recently, we had cause to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the launch of New Insights in South Africa (and fourteen years since the brand was originally established in the UK). A good friend asked me about how the business had changed over the years. He looked curious when I explained
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As promised last time, here is a follow-up post about Learning Modalities. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read Part 1 please click here to open it in a new tab of your browser. Today’s post will make a lot more sense if you have the context from Part
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You might find it interesting to know that each of us has a unique preference for the way in which we like to receive, learn and internally represent new information and experiences. This knowledge can be particularly helpful in relationships and in careers that involve educating, helping or motivating people
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New Insights is unique in offering a structured 13-session coaching system for its trainee coaches to use in practice coaching and – if they choose – in their professional coaching endeavours after certification. When the system is properly followed, the coaching process takes coach and client around six months or
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Have you ever noticed how these three little words, could, would and should, tend to dominate our language? They all have many important and rather innocuous uses of course, … but they can also be reflective of a life not lived to its full potential. I’m referring, in particular, to
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Politically and socioeconomically speaking, the world is pretty unstable right now. I doubt many readers would disagree with this. Although New Insights is proud to have trainee coaches and certified coaches all over the world, our main markets are the UK and South Africa. And right now both countries, in
From Existing to Living Read More »
We’re celebrating! Life Coaching Insights just won an award. Feedspot adjudged us to be one of the top 100 life coach related blogs internationally (you can click on the award to read more). In fact, we cracked their top 20, being placed 18th – a great honour indeed. One of
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Life coaching can be described or explained in many ways. Here’s one description that I coined: “Life coaching involves a programme of sessions or mini-interventions that help empower individuals to grow and develop rapidly through exposure to tools and techniques that assist them to open their eyes to what really
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You just have to read the papers or listen to the news and you’ll probably agree that it\’s one crazy world that we live in! But what if you made a conscious decision not to tune into the media? How would the world seem to you then? The point here
Your Life Your Choice Read More »
Our planet is both a wondrous and downright scary place to be right now. We humans are naturally predisposed to seek the safety of the status quo rather than embrace change. Yet, just about everything around us is changing and there’s no sign of that letting up. Whether you take
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We certainly live in interesting times! Confucius would have a very wry smile on his face if he could witness the political, economic and social turmoil of the world we live in today. This Blog is not an appropriate forum in which to express political views but I have to
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The quality of your life is directly proportional to the quality of your thoughts. That statement is perhaps more profound than you are likely to give it credit at first pass. After all, you’re probably thinking: \”We all have tens of thousands of thoughts every day and there’s no way
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Freedom, Confidence, Growth. This is the tagline we use at New Insights. Why? Because we believe these are the main personal attributes that our life coach training and our related life coaching programme can impart, build and develop. But what exactly does it mean to experience personal freedom? [box type=\”shadow\”]“The
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Just the other day someone sent me an email thanking me for a Blog post that had resonated with them. I was about to send a brief reply with well wishes when I realised there was more to the message. “Can you recommend ways in which I can better myself?”
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Life coaching is particularly effective for those people who, though mentally well and fully functional, are simply \’stuck in a rut\’! Let’s face it, we all have that stuck feeling at some stage of other in our lives. But that’s not to say that it isn’t hugely frustrating and debilitating
Be honest. Are you a people pleaser? There’s no reason to be shy in owning up to this practice as you would be one among very many. And as we all know people pleasers are just the nicest of people. They will go out of their way to help –
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