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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’ 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
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
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 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...
The Spirit of NLP
If someone asks, what NLP is I can trot out the usual collection of explanations depending on who is asking, why they seem to be asking and how much time we have. It’s an instruction manual for the mind; it’s about how to think not what to think; NLP stands for Neuro...
Trade Carefully
America’s new bold tariff play has, if nothing else, cast a shadow of uncertainty over the world economy. Using tariffs to protect domestic industries is a valid tool in the economic toolbox. By doing so you make imported goods more expensive, thereby offering a...
Attention Please!
The Sun’s 1986 headline, “Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster”, was one of the most attention-grabbing ever produced by any newspaper. Was it true? Who knows? Who cares? Freddie Starr got plenty of publicity from it. In this Information Age everyone is after your attention....
Motivation
What do you do on the days your motivation tank is drained to empty, or when you just can’t get excited about doing anything. On some of these days I do think actually doing next to nothing is okay. Maybe you needed the rest to recharge your batteries. But having too...
The Eight-Fold Path
The New Year is now not quite so new, and the newsfeed is filling up with all sorts of, well, shall we say different and interesting things. My guess is that ‘things’ will only get stranger and more chaotic the further we move into 2025. So how do you keep your feet...