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How to Choose a Personal Life Coach

With increasing regularity nowadays, I find myself getting enquiries from people asking how they should go about choosing a life coach.
Of course, being in the business of training people to be great life coaches, I find it very gratifying to know that the demand for personal coaching services is growing rapidly in my native South [...]

The Need for Training

If IFAs and Life Assurance Companies are to compete effectively with the direct sales channels that are trading today and with the many more about to appear in the next 24 months then they must first realise exactly what they have to do.
If they want to keep, never mind increase, their market share they [...]

A Personal Coach Can Jumpstart Your Life

Just as a cold car battery as a hard time starting on a winter´s morning, sometimes we too need a jumpstart in our lives. It may be that you want to change careers or make a relationship work. Whatever your goal, a personal coach could be the best way to help you actualize [...]

A Balancing Act

Tired of being told you need to achieve ‘work/life balance’? Recently, I’ve heard that the concept is out of date and, in fact, concern over this prevents us from attending to what’s on our plate right now. Perhaps we can rest easier with the elusive ‘work/life balance’ if we define it differently: rather [...]

Do You Use Social Radar?

There are three areas in Emotional Intelligence that could be called Social Radar because they make you more socially aware. Social Awareness is often needed to survive in your professional and personal life. To sharpen your professional and personal effectiveness, there are three areas to focus on when you are trying to be [...]

Is Mom Still Your Yard Stick for Measuring Accountability?

With thousands of hours of coaching conversations, I’ve learned the secret to success with my clients: it’s my job to help them uncover their true values and priorities; it’s their job to take the actions that will honor and be consistent with those values and priorities. I help them and they help them! [...]

What a Dog Can Teach You About Life

Nothing like a powerful meditation group to bring forth some truly important life lessons in a most unusual way. The wisdom is all around us, often in the most unique places. We need to stop and listen in order to hear and heed the lessons.
Each time we gather at a different person’s house. This [...]

Eleven Steps to FINALLY loving your work after forty

Step One: Envision exactly what would be just perfect for you!
Many people stop on this first step by their negativity. But no one is going to do this except you.
Take some time and create a picture in your mind of the work which would be just perfect for you. Is it working in [...]

Pushing On in spite of Resistance

My granddaughter and I were watching the TV show, Brothers and Sisters, last night. It stars Sally Field, Calista Flockhart and Rob Lowe (among others). It was the first time I had watched it, and it took a while for us to get to know who the characters were in relation to one [...]

Why Hire a Life Coach?

“What exactly is a life coach and why would I need one?”
…A question I hear quite regularly in my business and one that always catches me by surprise, even though I know it shouldn’t!
Long, long ago…
I remember back to my days of being a civil engineer (longer ago than I care to mention) when friends [...]