One of the topics we cover in the New Insights Life Coach Training Programme is The Beauty of Balance. I found myself revisiting that subject today after reflecting on the fact that my own personal life has been feeling unusually up and down of late. I’m fortunate that I am […]
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Facing the return to work – or regular day-to-day routine – after a well deserved break, is never easy. Many of us associate breaks with doing more of what we love, while we see the common routine as a necessary evil for our continued survival … until the next heaven
What does it mean to experience true freedom? Is freedom a birthright? Is it something that is bestowed upon you, and if so, by what authority and in what conditions? Is it an individual or collective concept? Does it represent a state of selfishness or selflessness? Is it a way
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This week’s article draws inspiration from an issue that often perplexes our trainee life coaches. Helping clients to set inspiring, challenging, yet achievable goals is all part and parcel of the life coaching process. Some clients present with a rather hazy dream or aspiration that they want to crystallise and
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Do you love your work, tolerate it, or just plain hate it? Are you closing in on your dreams, stuck in neutral, or drifting further away? A complete turn I gave up any active involvement in engineering more years ago than I care to remember but the civil engineering institute
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As we slowly begin to emerge from the doom and gloom that descended upon us as the global pandemic struck, with its many nasty consequences, many of us are left thinking “What now?” In today’s hectic world, an opportunity to think and reflect can often be ‘just what the doctor
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“I constantly seem to attract people looking for my advice, so, with a bit of training, I feel sure I’ll make a natural life coach.” Had I received a penny for every such comment made by people enquiring about life coach training, I would be a pretty wealthy man right
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Life coaching can and should have a profound effect on enhancing one’s level of self-awareness. One of the central principles of life coaching is the understanding that we have the power to – and must bear the responsibility for – creating our own reality, no matter the situation we are
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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
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
Be honest. Are you a people pleaser? There’s no reason to be shy in owning up to this practice as you would be one among very many. And as we all know people pleasers are just the nicest of people. They will go out of their way to help –
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The inspiration for this week’s post comes from my Father’s Day gift – a fascinating book called Power vs Force by David Hawkins. Let me be frank – the book’s not an easy read. It struck me as a curious and intriguing mix of spirituality, psychology, quantum physics and applied
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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It\’s February, the holidays are long gone and if you\’re like most, you\’ll be back into the routine you\’ve become accustomed to, with the shine rapidly disappearing from the New Year\’s resolutions you made a month ago. This is the time of the year when doubts start to creep in
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