20 Years of NLP

20 Years of NLP

This month marks 20 years since I did my very first NLP training. Having spent 18 years before then working as an accountant in the corporate world I was ready for a change. At the start of 2005, as I contemplated that change, coaching was one of the career choices...
Fighting Fire with Fire

Fighting Fire with Fire

‘Fighting fire with fire’ is a commonly used idiom, meaning to use like force against like force. It most likely comes from the practice of creating a fire break to manage a wildfire, by burning fuel in its path, thereby depriving the wildfire of energy. Creating a...
Government

Government

Recently I was asked to review a book a friend of mine had written, which is titled 5,000 years of Monarchy. The book highlights many fascinating facts from across the globe and throughout recorded history. Such as Phillip II of Spain being King of England, after...
Your Story

Your Story

Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1960 film Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas as Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus, tells the epic tale of the gladiators who escaped from a school near Capua in 73 BCE, terrifying the Roman people with their...
Pain

Pain

Pain is a mechanism that our nervous system uses to provide us with information. That information is usually about damage being caused to the body. The pain is there to tell us to take actions which allow our bodies to heal, which in turn causes the pain to stop. If...