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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Yesterday marked the 12th anniversary of the launch of New Insights in South Africa (some 4 years after its original inception in the UK). I’d like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to all of our supporters around the world. Whether you have trained through us
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Life coaching is designed to help people achieve desired outcomes that they would not normally be able to do when left to their own devices. Clients are usually surprised – some times spectacularly so – when they look back on what they have been able to accomplish with the services
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In this, the first blog post for 2019, let me start by wishing all subscribers a very happy and prosperous New Year! Cynics will smirk and say that’s a rather hackneyed phrase that we trot out, ever hopefully, at the commencement of yet another year! The point in the earth’s
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Lewis Carroll’s rather zany poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter, is the unlikely inspiration for today’s post. And though I happen to love oysters it has nothing to do with the odd duo’s unsuspecting victims! “The time has come,” the Walrus said,“To talk of many things:Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–Of cabbages–and
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By all accounts our beloved planet is in a real mess at the moment. And it’s all thanks to us. Have you heard of the so-called ‘Doomsday Clock’? It was designed as a symbol to represent the likelihood of a planet-wide man made catastrophe. Midnight on the clock denotes the
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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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Have you ever taken time out to conduct an assessment of the nature and scale of the personal impact your life is having on our world? I suggest that the world might be a far better place if all of us were called on to do this from time to
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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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2018. It has a good ring to it don’t you think? The number eight has something of an exciting quality to it, shaped, as it is, like a vertical rendition of the mathematical symbol for infinity. Infinity denotes an infinitely large number. You could also think of it as the
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Wow! It’s almost time to wave goodbye to yet another year. As I look forward to a few weeks break from writing, I offer you a final post for the year – one that could honestly change your life. 🙂 Depending on your hemisphere, you may be preparing for the
If you’re like most people, you would probably love to be able to change your life for the better … but it just seems so hard, right? Actually, though it may seem hard, it’s really rather easy once you understand and can apply a few simple yet powerful concepts. “You
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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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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
It seems like just a few days ago that I was writing a brief review of 2016 and looking forward to a few weeks break. And now, here we are, well into a brand new year! Well, they say time flies while you’re having fun! How true. Welcome to another
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No matter who you are you deserve to live your dream. At New Insights dreams are very much our business – that’s making them a reality, of course. Our methodology is a simple yet powerful one. We train those people – who are passionate about helping other people – to
In today’s hurly burly world where there never seems to be enough time for everything that needs to be done, what would you give to increase your effectiveness, or perhaps even double it? We often hear how efficient people are but we don’t often talk about personal effectiveness. What’s the
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I’m sure that at some point in your life, if not right now, you have experienced a feeling of being stuck, or what a colleague of mine calls ‘stuckness’. It’s a common affliction and one that has a simple solution. Just recently, and quite uncharacteristically, I have been experiencing muscle
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The inspiration for this article comes from one of our trainee life coaches who posted a question on our Forum about how to deal with a client of his who was struggling to make changes in her life … and who claimed to be suffering from a mental illness. Let
