Be Inspired to Live the Life You Love
New Insights On Life is the official blog for New Insights Life Coach Training, international specialists in life coaching, life coach training and personal development.
We are truly proud to welcome you here!
Our intention with this blog – and related podcasts – is to offer thought provoking articles to stimulate discussion on a variety of personal development related topics. Many are derived from life coaching and the life coach training we provide.
We hope to motivate and inspire you to live the life you love.
It seems like yesterday – but its actually four years ago now – that I wrote and self published my first (and, so far, only) book, “A Boerewors Roll for the Soul – Awaken to the magic of the life you love.” I can honestly say I did it for […]
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We have something to celebrate today (along with a special offer for aspirant trainee life coaches!) Jerry Cox is a journalist who writes for the New York Times. He was tasked with creating an infographic, listing the Top 100 Life Coaching related Blog Sites in the world. We are extremely
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Abraham Maslow developed what is now commonly known as ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs’. He postulated that human needs are arranged in a hierarchy starting with our most basic physiological needs for food, water and air, to safety, to love, to esteem and finally to our highest need, namely self actualisation.
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Those of us in the industry are regularly confronted with the question: “Why life coaching?” The reason why people hold such different – and often poorly informed – views about what life coaching really is, no doubt has much to do with the rather generic and non descriptive nature of
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Loyal readers of Life Coaching Insights may have read the many previous blog posts dealing with different aspects of life coaching and been left wondering exactly what qualities are required to be a really good life coach? When asked what the prerequisite qualities are for becoming a life coach, my
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If stress and frustration are regular visitors of yours it may be that you are struggling to live life authentically. Before you take offence, let me explain that this is something most of us battle with in these days and times. It is a natural outcome of what I call
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At a specific stage in the New Insights life coaching process coaches will introduce their clients to the concept of RAK – or random acts of kindness. These are selfless and spontaneous acts and gestures that brighten the day for others. They generally require very little effort but the joy
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Have you ever kept a Journal? If not – and it’s not something you feel inclined to try, I can empathise because that describes how I once felt. I was somewhat sceptical, too, about the value of life coaching, until I agreed to try it … and look at me
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Let’s face it. Most of us have been brought up to believe that the answers to life’s challenges lie ‘out there somewhere’. “Someone out there will have come up with a solution, it’s just a matter of finding it,” is a common way in which most of us respond to
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In last week’s post, Know Your Values, I talked about the positive and liberating effect that knowing your values – and bringing them into your conscious awareness – can have. This week I’d like to talk about how you can really feel your values on a regular basis. [box
How often have you thought, I mean seriously thought, about what it is you truly value in life? Back in my corporate employment days the issue of considering and defining corporate or team values was something that came to the fore quite regularly in meetings. A fair amount of time
My nineteen year old son bade us goodbye at the airport on Monday as he embarked on a five month trip to China where he will be teaching English as part of an internship arrangement during his post school gap year. Just over two months ago my daughter, who chose
As you might well imagine, one of the important roles that I am accustomed to playing as the head of New Insights, is to promote the advantages of life coaching and becoming a life coach. The problem, of course, is that that’s what people expect to hear from me so
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The Commonwealth Games have come and gone leaving us with some wonderful memories of the skill, bravery, endurance and sheer determination of those involved. Athletes of the calibre of those competing in the Games are all highly motivated individuals, spurred on as they are by the lure of medals, world
Are you one of those whose life looks good on the outside … but doesn’t feel too great on the inside? It’s a sad fact that a great number of us have come to accept that our lives are only as good as we think they look to other people.
The Internet has undoubtedly revolutionised our lives. Yet it is only in the last sixty years that it has become a possibility (with the development of computers in the 1950s) and in the last twenty that the world wide web has become a reality! The idea of being able to
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School holidays are about to start in the UK and are entering their final week in South Africa, so for many of you, there will be a little more time to think of something other than work and the daily routine! This week’s article, Thoughts create reality, is inspired by
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No matter how serious the challenges you face, your dreams can become real if you put your mind to it. With the 2014 FIFA World Cup currently in full swing, it seems appropriate to share a true story of a footballing nature, that proves this point. Inspired by the FIFA
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Have you every stopped to consider that the type of questions you ask yourself can have a significant impact on your life? Your first reaction to this may be that your questions are reserved for other people … but take some time to reflect on this and you might be
