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Do we live in the most stressful time ever? It was widely predicted in the 1960s that, within forty to fifty years, advances in technology would leave us with more time to ourselves, more time for recreational activities and leisure pursuits … and far less stress. Reportedly, it is at […]
Life Coaching, for those who try it without really understanding what it involves, can come as something of a shock… … A powerful, eye opening and liberating shock in most cases, but a shock nonetheless. Before I explain, some context is necessary. “There are three types of people in this
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Last night I had the privilege of speaking on teleconference with one of my Personal Mentoring Groups for life coach trainees. I asked the members: \”What\’s holding you back?\” From their responses, I identified two key themes, difficulty prioritising their own stuff, and a lack of self confidence. No surprises
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Life, as we know, can be really challenging! Our ‘autopilot’ response to the challenging situations we face is often to engage in negative thought patterns that lead us to fall into a rut of worry and angst, so we end up feeling sorry for ourselves and this perpetuates our negative
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A number of the readers of this Blog are already life coaches, some may be considering life coaching as a career and others may simply enjoy the personal insights that they gain from reading a blog that derives its inspiration from life coaching. Whichever category you fit into, I hope
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You’ve heard of values before but when did you ever sit down and seriously contemplate your own set of personal values? If you’re like the vast majority of people, you’ll have to think long and hard about what your true values are because this is not normally something that we
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 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
