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.
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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.
In Cape Town, where I currently live, we have experienced a rather unusually cold and wet winter. So when the sun and blue skies made a welcome appearance on the weekend I decided to get myself down to the beach. I\’m so glad I did. It was thoroughly rejuvenating and […]
The past two decades may well come to be known as the era that redefined personal communications. The mid 1990s saw the start of the email revolution and an early explosion in the use of mobile phone technology and SMS or text messaging. It\’s hard to believe but it\’s less
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This week I\’d like to offer my readers inspiration in a refreshingly different form! As you will have gathered I am a great believer in the power that words can have to motivate and inspire us. Very often, the most powerful food for thought derives from just a few choice
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As much as life coaching aims to reconnect people with their inner beings and revitalise belief in their own power and abilities, it also seeks to enhance their capacity to relate to other people in ways that are mutually beneficial. The New Insights life coaching system includes wonderful sessions on
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How often have you struggled with a personal dilemma between taking action to bring about needed change in your life and resisting that action to prevent possible negative consequences? In Make This a Better Year – Part 1 I explained why people find it so difficult to embrace change. A
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In every aspect of your life, your attitude plays a big role. If you want to get ahead and be consistently happy and content, then you have to make your attitude your ally. Your attitude reflects in everything you do and everything that happens to you. Inherent in the Law
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One of the questions most frequently asked by those keen to consider life coaching as a career is \”What does it take?\” My answer is always the same. You simply need to have integrity, a real desire – I call it a passion – for working with people, a willingness
To what extent do you allow others to dictate how you live your life, either expressly through their influence and/or manipulation, or perhaps through more subtle means including your own thoughts and perceptions? Maybe it\’s time to question just whose life it is you are leading? [box type=\”shadow\”]“How would your
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A wise man once said that FEAR means False Evidence Appearing Real. The vast majority of our fears never come to pass. Experts have estimated that around 90% of our fears are based on things that will never happen! That means we waste an awful lot of time and energy
Thanks go to Lindo Morolong, one of our trainee life coaches based in Botswana, who provided the inspiration for this week\’s post. Lindo queried a comment on the subject of choice made in one of our skills training manuals and forwarded me an interesting article he had written about making
A life of abundance would seem to be our birthright as human beings. Spend a little time reflecting on the make up of the universe and, closer to home, the natural environment offered by our planet. It doesn\’t take a great deal of observation and reflection to conclude that abundance
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One thing I love about the life coaching industry is how it is filled with people who are passionate about improving their own lives and those of others. The great majority of people I interact with are authentic, friendly and accommodating. Nonetheless, even in this wonderful business, one comes up
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One of the great things that my exposure to life coaching has taught me is the power of living in the moment – or living for now. If you don’t know what this means, hearing people talk about it may well irritate you. It did me. Being a person more
My son, who is quite a deep thinker for someone who is barely legal, recently drew my attention to the blog of one Nicky Hajal. Now I\’m afraid I\’ve never heard of Nicky but I have to admit to being rather taken by a post that he titled: \’Being Realistic
Laura Gray is a trainee life coach with New Insights in the UK and one with a very special talent. Laura\’s passion for helping to bring about positive change in the lives of others is uniquely showcased in this wonderful poem that she wrote asking for offers of money and
Rod Suskin hosts an entertaining weekly talk radio slot in which he gives personal ‘readings’ using astrological charts. I tuned in the other day to hear him pronouncing on the fact that Jupiter was in an ‘angry phase’. Of late our biggest planet has apparently been occupying a position in
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Is anyone out there? That might sound like the musings of someone involved in the search for extraterrestrial life, or someone stuck after hours between floors in an office lift! But that cry for help is one that’s much closer to home and far more commonly experienced than most of
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Inspiration for this week\’s post comes from a gentleman called Edgar Guest, an American poet born in England in the late nineteenth century, who penned some 11,000 poems and went on to become known as the People\’s Poet. As humans we are often easily dismissive of tough challenges, finding it
Personal growth can only come from change and to embrace change we need to be aware of – and to be skilled at adapting – the type of conversations we have. [box type=\”shadow\”]\”The character of a man is known from his conversations.\” – Menander [/box]
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