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Feb 4 2025

Freedom, Confidence, Growth

Beliefs, Life coaching, Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth, Values / 2 Comments / 4 February 2025

Freedom, Confidence, Growth.

These are the three words that I chose as a strapline for New Insights Life Coach Training when I took over the reins many years ago.

They are as relevant today as they were then. They neatly summarise the enlightening journey of self-discovery. that one goes through in transformational life coaching, such as that promoted by New Insights Life Coach Training.

That journey starts with gaining the freedom of mind and spirit that comes with a profound new level of self-awareness. From that comes a huge boost in self-belief or confidence, which in turn spurs the personal growth and development that provides meaning and leaves one feeling fulfilled.

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Nov 25 2024

The Value of Knowing Your Values

Life coaching, Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth, Values / 6 Comments / 25 November 2024

“Values.”

We frequently hear the word bandied around by politicians, leaders and sports coaches in reference to collective values.

But, as individuals, how much time and energy do we tend to allocate to deep reflection about what our personal values are, and what priority we assign to them?

Given their critical importance in our lives … shockingly little!

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Mar 15 2023

From Limiting Beliefs to Empowering Beliefs

Beliefs / 6 Comments / 15 March 2023

One of the most valuable benefits of life coaching is the tools and techniques it offers to remove and replace deeply ingrained beliefs that don’t serve us in achieving our goals and dreams. This may sound strange to anyone new to life coaching. After all, we choose what we want

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Aug 11 2022

5 Tips to Improve Your Communication

Communication, Life coaching / 9 Comments / 11 August 2022

How effectively do you communicate with those you interact with on a regular basis? Most of us take day to day communication pretty much for granted. But the fact is that our own levels of happiness and fulfilment are directly linked to our expertise in communicating. In life coaching, we

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Mar 31 2021

Ten Questions That Will Change Your Life

Beliefs, Human Needs, Life coaching, Life Purpose, Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth, Self Awareness / 11 Comments / 31 March 2021

The New Insights Life Coaching System is designed around a proprietary model, with the acronym I-N-S-I-G-H-T-S and is transformational in its effect. The ten questions that follow, go to the heart of the model and provide a glimpse of its application in coaching. Take time to reflect on – and

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Jun 26 2019

The Power and Danger of Beliefs – A Podcast

Beliefs, Personal Development & Growth / 10 Comments / 26 June 2019

My good friend and philanthropist, Paul Lowe, is the founder of the popular podcast series Speaking from our HEARTS, that aims to get inspirational messages and stories out to the world. There are now over 100 clips in the podcast series. I am privileged to have been involved in two

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May 16 2018

Happiness – Make it a Habit!

Life coaching, Lifestyle & Life Balance, Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth / 19 Comments / 16 May 2018

Happiness is, sadly, a rather elusive commodity for many people. And yet, most spiritual guides and deep thinking philosophers will tell you that attaining a state of happiness is the central purpose in life. So what exactly is happiness and why does it not come naturally to most people? “Happiness

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Oct 5 2017

Are Your Beliefs Holding You Back?

Beliefs, Personal Development & Growth / 4 Comments / 5 October 2017

Your beliefs will have a profound effect on the actions you take and the consequences you expect – and will most likely get – from those actions. Rather like a pair of spectacles, your beliefs act as lenses through which you view the world and decide on how to react

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Jul 19 2017

Life Coaching that Transforms

Handling Change, Life coaching, Personal Development & Growth / 12 Comments / 19 July 2017

New Insights is unique in offering a structured 13-session coaching system for its trainee coaches to use in practice coaching and – if they choose – in their professional coaching endeavours after certification. When the system is properly followed, the coaching process takes coach and client around six months or

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May 10 2017

Life Coaching Opens Eyes

Beliefs, Life coaching, Life Purpose, Personal Development & Growth, Social & Community, Values / 9 Comments / 10 May 2017

Life coaching can be described or explained in many ways. Here’s one description that I coined: “Life coaching involves a programme of sessions or mini-interventions that help empower individuals to grow and develop rapidly through exposure to tools and techniques that assist them to open their eyes to what really

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Mar 8 2017

Ten Steps to a Better You

Beliefs, Personal Development & Growth, Values / 22 Comments / 8 March 2017

Just the other day someone sent me an email thanking me for a Blog post that had resonated with them. I was about to send a brief reply with well wishes when I realised there was more to the message. “Can you recommend ways in which I can better myself?”

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May 18 2016

Six Key Questions to Ask Yourself

Beliefs, Human Needs, Life coaching, Life Purpose, Lifestyle & Life Balance, Personal Development & Growth / 20 Comments / 18 May 2016

One of the critical skills of a life coach is knowing the right questions to ask and when to ask them. A common request I get from our trainee life coaches is to share what I believe are the most powerful questions to ask of clients. The New Insights Life

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Apr 6 2016

Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover

Beliefs, Personal Development & Growth, Values / 10 Comments / 6 April 2016

‘Don’t judge a book by its cover’, the wise old adage goes. Its just such a pity that this sage advice goes unheeded so often. I guess we can all lay claim to having experienced being judged or, if we are honest, judging others unfairly for what we see on

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Jul 2 2015

We Are What We Think

Beliefs, Mind & Spirit / 13 Comments / 2 July 2015

The fascinating thing about the field of human motivation is that the more you study it the more you appreciate how science and spirituality are ultimately converging on the same amazing conclusions regarding our ability to create our own reality. That’s not to say that scientists and spiritual seekers share

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Jun 23 2015

Shape Your Own Destiny

Beliefs, Life coaching, Personal Development & Growth, Take Action / 9 Comments / 23 June 2015

It is the choices we make and the actions we take – not where we start out – that determines where we will end up. The above is a quote from my book, “A Boerewors Roll for the Soul – awaken to the magic of the life you love” and

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Apr 21 2015

How Beliefs Develop

Beliefs, Life coaching, Motivation, Personal Development & Growth, Self Confidence / 9 Comments / 21 April 2015

Have you ever taken time to explore how your beliefs came to be your beliefs … and why? Beliefs can be very powerful motivational, or de-motivational forces and, as such, time spent considering their origin and how they develop can be fascinating and the personal insights revealing. Life coaching involves

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Feb 4 2015

Promoting Happiness

Beliefs, Life coaching, Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth / 9 Comments / 4 February 2015

The problem with the term ‘life coaching’ is that it’s just not terribly descriptive. The net effect of that is that members of the public tend to hold very different preconceptions of what life coaching is really all about. In particular, life coaching often gets confused with counselling or mentoring,

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Jun 10 2014

The Gift of Free Will

Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth / 12 Comments / 10 June 2014

Those of you who have read my book will remember the important point that I made early on in Part One: “If free will is the ultimate gift to enable self development and growth, then an open mind is the ultimate tool to unlock the treasure chest in which that

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Feb 5 2014

Let the Magic Happen

Life Purpose, Mind & Spirit, Personal Development & Growth / 8 Comments / 5 February 2014

Why are we here? I believe that we are all ‘chips off the old block’ so to speak and that each of us has been created with the specific intent to continue the process of creation in our evolving universe. Each of us was born with an inherent purpose (our

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