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Foolproof strategies for overcoming procrastination

Foolproof strategies for overcoming procrastination

Procrastination is a stress response. People procrastinate when they feel overwhelmed or anxious about moving forward pushing their brain into ‘freeze’ mode. It can happen to us all and putting pressure on someone who is procrastinating will only make things worse. Use one of these approaches to help you overcome…

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What’s the best response to give when someone asks for your time?

What’s the best response to give when someone asks for your time?

Remember that when you are communicating to other people about your time you are basically training them in how to treat you. We all have natural habits in how we respond to requests for our time. Let’s look at ways in which you can increase your choices of response to…

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Banish Time Management Forever

Banish Time Management Forever

Time is a finite resource. We all have the same amount of time each day, each week and each month. How we use that time is dependent on what each of us believes is important and how we think about time. Time Management is a myth. The sad fact is…

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Set Goals for 2017 you will actually achieve

Set Goals for 2017 you will actually achieve

Have you thought about what you want to achieve this year yet? New years resolutions rarely make it past the first few weeks but real goal setting each year leads to success and achievement. There is a key to great goal setting though, just visualising what you want won’t necessarily…

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3 Keys to a successful Christmas with the Family

3 Keys to a successful Christmas with the Family

Getting together with the family at Christmas should be full and fun and joy. In reality though the fun and joy rarely happens as spontaneously as it does on those Christmas TV ads. The secret to a successful Christmas with the family to think ahead and be prepared by considering…

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Difficult team members made easy

Difficult team members made easy

‘Difficult people’ come in all shapes and sizes. Their behaviours range from tears to gossip to outright temper tantrums. Sometimes those behaviours are short-lived. In these cases, challenging behaviour is probably sparked by a temporary stressor such as illness or work overload and can become exacerbated over the festive season.…

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Stress Free Christmas

10 Steps to a Stress Free Christmas

Tis the season to be merry – and also stressed if you are organising Christmas this year. At such a special time, you want to get it right, but many people race up to the big day and are then too exhausted or stress to enjoy it. There’s a reason…

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Wyatt Woodsmall

Life Lessons from Wyatt Woodsmall

On 31st October Wyatt Woodsmall ran an NLP Masterclass for over 30 of us in Bristol. The subject was Science and Spirituality and the path towards spirituality – and whether it’s a path we want to take. It was a packed day with many full heads at the end, but…

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5 ways to deal with people who hit your buttons

5 ways to deal with people who hit your buttons

We all know people who wind us up, make us feel small, angry or useless, even over small things. The impact can be a minor niggle, ruin our day or ruin a relationship! It might feel like these reactions are out of your control but the good news is there…

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Small changes in your thinking

Small changes in your thinking that make a BIG difference

When people come on our certification courses in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) they are always blown away by the power of the interventions to change behaviours, how we feel and how we behave. It’s easy to love the big powerful stuff, but the small changes we make in our thinking…

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Help! My team are obsessed with getting promoted

Help! My team are obsessed with getting promoted

A common challenge leaders experience is having an ambitious team who focus on promotion at every opportunity. For many leaders in this situation, 1:1s can become daunting…

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What next for my career? Advice for technical leaders

What next for my career? Advice for technical leaders

For technical leaders, career development often feels like a leap into the unknown: moving from technical mastery to the realm of leadership and management. But…

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Q&A with Jon Cooper: Performance coach to paralympic gold medallist Aaron Phipps - Part 1

Q&A with Jon Cooper: Performance coach to paralympic gold medallist Aaron Phipps – Part 1

When we wrote our latest book ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ we spoke to many inspiring elite sportspeople to gain their insight on what goes into their…

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