Ageing Gracefully!
This week, we take a little time out to celebrate our longevity and give thanks where it is due!
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How to Reveal the Person Behind the Mask
We all wear masks to some degree—polished personas shaped by expectations and roles. Yet our true character is often revealed in the smallest, most unguarded moments.
This article, inspired by Carl Jung’s thought-provoking ideas, explores the situations and questions that expose the essence of who we truly are,
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The Power of People
The power of the collective to bring about change is seldom questioned and often clearly demonstrated during democratic election times such as that we are witnessing in 2024.
But the power of the individual is given less attention, with many doubting their ability to impact the world in any meaningful way.
In today’s post, Bill explains why this doubt is so misplaced.
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Be True to Yourself
The pressures and demands of the modern day world are such that many of us find our lives are trained on trying to meet the expectations of others. In the process we become further slowly more disconnected from who we are and what it is that is important to us.
If you find yourself constantly wrestling with what you feel you should do versus what you inwardly feel you need to do, Be True to Yourself is written for you!
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20 Years in Business Promoting Freedom, Confidence & Growth
As loyal readers will know, and as the name implies, the purpose of this Blog is to offer insights into personal development and self improvement within the overall context of life coaching. Whereas we take great delight when it provides the motivation for readers to enrol in our life coach
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How You Can Change the World
I appreciate that you probably opened this article more out of curiosity than actual belief in finding a recipe for changing the world. And that’s fair enough, given that we live in a world characterised by over hype and under delivery! But I ask you to bear with me. Have
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New Insights – Sweet 15!
Some of you may be pleased to hear that I’m keeping this post relatively brief. Why? Well, partly because I’m in celebratory mood, and partly because Jenni and I are very busy preparing to embark on a new adventure – on the personal front, not the work front – that
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Life Coaching: Maximising the Reach and Impact (Part 2)
Today’s post is the second in a two-part discussion about maximising the impact and reach of life coaching – and what I believe is standing in the way. In Part 1, which I encourage you to read for context, if you haven’t already, I mentioned that there were a number
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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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Kindness, Greed and Life Coaching
Kindness is a naturally inherent human attribute … but unfortunately, it is not one that is always universally expressed. I was fortunate enough to enjoy a few days away with my family recently. Our getaway took us to a relatively remote place characterised by peace, tranquility and a close connection
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The Social Media Conundrum
So, what’s your take on social media? For many, the question poses an interesting conundrum. The answer could easily fall anywhere in the spectrum from ‘a real blessing’ to ‘a downright curse’, or perhaps some of both! Let’s take a little time to unpack this. A turn of the century
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Your Head, Your Heart and Your Career
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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Thoroughly Amazing You
In this, the final Blog post for 2020, I would like to pay tribute to you! I admit, the chances are that I know little to nothing about you, unless you are in training or have qualified as a certified life coach with New Insights. Nevertheless, I still feel a
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Finding Stability in a Wobbly World
It seems like an age since we were toasting the advent of 2020 and what many of us hoped would be a bright, shiny new year marked by peace, prosperity and a comforting degree of certainty. Fast forward to today and, I think it fair to say that most of
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Understanding Division and What We Can Do About It
Recent events around the world have served to strengthen my belief that, whereas there are many on our planet who seek to build unity, bring about harmony and spread love, there are other forces clearly bent on sowing division, creating distrust and fomenting anger. What’s new? you may ask. This
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Living In Interesting Times
“May you live in interesting times.” This phrase, often attributed to Chinese philosopher Confucius who lived around 500BCE, is commonly cited as the translation of an ancient Chinese curse. Interestingly, though, no definitive Chinese source for this saying has ever been found. Perhaps the most closely related Chinese saying is:
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Create a Unique Selling Proposition
The famous Scottish novelist, Robert Louis Stevenson, once said “Everybody lives by selling something.” Think carefully about that statement and you’ll realise just how true it is. Whether you work in front line sales or in back office administration; whether you’re a fiction writer or a school janitor; whether you
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Time to Take Back Our Power
Have you noticed just how unequal and lopsided this world is? Are you aware that a staggering 70% of us hold a pitiful 3% of the entire amount of global wealth? Looked at another way, some 86% of global wealth is owned by less than 9% of the planet’s total
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The Golden Rule of Life
One thing we try hard not to do at New Insights is to be overly rigid about expecting our trainee life coaches to embrace the principles that we advocate. After all, one of the foundation stones for effective life coaching is having a deep tolerance and appreciation for the different
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