I love being in the people industry. Working with life coaches, trainee life coaches, and members of the public with an interest in self-development, ensures that I am constantly learning about people. And it’s people that make the world go around! Some time ago a teacher, and avid reader of […]
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Ask any life coach what they do and the chances are high that the word change will crop up in the description they choose to share. At New Insights we like to think of life coaches as agents for change. Helping people bring about the changes that they desire in
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Life coaching is one of the most fulfilling professions around. As a life coach you get involved in helping your clients achieve their goals and dreams and, more generally, improve their self awareness and overall quality of life. What could be more relevant or important in this very challenging world
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Developing a healthy level of self esteem is a crucial step towards achieving success and happiness in life. Self esteem can be thought of as the overall sense of self worth and confidence that one has in one’s own abilities, qualities, and value as a person. It is an essential
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I’m just lacking motivation! We’ve all said it and we’ve all experienced the listless feeling that comes with a lack of motivation. Motivation and staying motivated is a much bigger issue for some than it is for others. What exactly is motivation? Why do some struggle more than others? And
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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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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
When You Just Don’t Know What You Want! Read More »
Every day people pass up amazing opportunities that life presents to them. In the aftermath they will argue: “The time wasn’t right,” I didn’t have the time,” “I didn’t have the money” or “The opportunity wasn’t quite what I was looking for”. These are all valid reasons, of course …
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Are you lacking clear direction? Does it feel like a thick fog has descended and you’re struggling to see the path you should follow, never mind visualise the destination? If so, you can take heart from the fact that you are most certainly not alone. Uncertainty and confusion Life coaches
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Do you love your work, tolerate it, or just plain hate it? Are you closing in on your dreams, stuck in neutral, or drifting further away? A complete turn I gave up any active involvement in engineering more years ago than I care to remember but the civil engineering institute
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In my opinion, the most important and most underestimated impact – by far – of the global pandemic we are navigating our way through, is its effect on the general mental health and wellbeing of people everywhere. I was distraught to read in the news about a tour guide and
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This week I’d like to offer a follow up to the original post, A Coaching Case Study, that I presented as a post some weeks ago. The theme of the case study is how ordinary people like you and me can achieve quite extraordinary things with the help of a
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Just imagine for a moment watching a game of pinball. Now, think of that game in the context of your very own life. Perhaps you can equate your life to the player of the game? You feel focused, excited, in control and determined to do the very best you can
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Do you suffer from a nagging doubts about your own ability to achieve the life you really want? If so, please rest assured that you’re not alone. My involvement with life coaching has helped me appreciate that most of us grossly underestimate our ability to live the life of our
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In early October last year I briefly broke with the tradition of written blog posts and offered you the opportunity to listen to a podcast of an interview I did with Paul Lowe. Paul, who runs a not for profit enterprise called HEARTS (Helping Everyone Achieve Results Towards Success) is
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A few readers have enquired as to why there was no blog post last week. The reason is that a week ago today, our young son, Casey, left to take up a job opportunity in London. As you might imagine, my wife, Jenni, and I found ourselves otherwise preoccupied, helping
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By ‘ultimate personal freedom’, I don’t just mean living in a liberal democratic society where your human rights are entrenched and protected. I’m talking about the feeling that comes from living a life that’s characterised by inner peace and happiness. So, what would it take to achieve ultimate personal freedom?
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“Everybody lives by selling something.” This simple but profound statement is attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson in the late 1800s. Few people will claim that selling comes naturally to them. Most would profess to be ambivalent about selling and a number of us would even recoil at the idea of
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As an organisation specialising in training people to become life coaches, we are privileged to receive numerous wonderful testimonials from those we train. And when the people that our trainee coaches practice on take the trouble to share with us detailed feedback about their experiences … we really sit up
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