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Believing is Seeing
What you believe produces your results, which reinforces your belief, which produces your results. If you have empowering beliefs you can be spiralling up in life, but if you have disempowering beliefs you can be spiralling down instead. One of the examples propagated...
Be the Water, Not the Rock
If we all agreed about everything all the time, then life would be a breeze. But we don’t, and sometimes it isn’t. Often, we do find ourselves in a disagreement with others. Maybe when buying a car or a house, or at work with a supplier, a customer, or with your...
Assertive
What does being assertive mean to you? Does it bring up images of being bossy or rude, or people who must get their own way all the time. Or does it bring to the surface feelings of fear. In her book Perfect AssertivenessJan Ferguson defines it in this way; “Being...
Because You’re Worth It
Personal development encourages positive thinking and suggests you become the Best Version of You that you can be. But in our modern world we are faced with many challenges in our work, family, and social lives. All set within a society that seems to be focused on...
Neurodiversity
This week is World Autism Acceptance Week. Like most of these sorts of events its purpose is to raise awareness. Everything starts with awareness. You cannot change anything unless you first acknowledge the problem. And here the problem is society. It seems to me that...
GROW
The GROW model is one of the most popular models used in coaching. This is because it is simple and effective. It is a process model that gives a coach some structure to guide their client through change. It’s most suited where the purpose of the coaching is very goal...
Stop & Eat Grass
I went for a 5K run with my daughter at the weekend. She was surprised that I was running without listening to music. She said, “But you’ll be stuck in your own thoughts all the time.” And what’s wrong with that. I guess the problem is that many people do not have...
Mental Healing
In recent years society has been taking mental health more seriously, and one thing we are discovering is that positive change is easier than we thought. Although support can be patchy and largely privately provided, mental healing is possible. For hundreds of years...
Language of Love
Language of Love One of the most rewarding things that we can do in life is being in a long-term, happy relationship. When this aspect of life works, we feel like we can conquer the world. Yet at the same time if it isn’t working well, if our needs are not being met,...
Storytelling
Storytelling is built into human DNA. We like to tell stories and to listen to them. Children learn through story structure, and adults do too. Even when I worked as an account and was presenting monthly financial results, I would look for what story the numbers were...