Blog tag: coaching
3 signs you need a confidence makeover
Confidence is both an inside feeling and an outside behaviour.Both are important, if one is out of kilter you will appear incongruent and inauthentic, therefore lacking impact. 1. You have perfectionist tendencies Inside confidence is critical to managing your health and energy. Confidence problems are often a side effect of…
Are you too Selfish?
Selfish – it doesn’t even sound good does it? That is because for many of us it takes us back to childhood when a well meaning teach or parent used it to tell us off.The problem with ‘selfish’ is that all too often people use it to judge and scold…
Six living principles of successful & happy people
There are many ways to be happy and successful, there is no magic formula. Instead happy and successful people live by some useful Principles and do them their own way… They… Instead of… Top Tip1) Take responsibility for themselves Blaming external things for things that go wrong. Give thought to what you CAN do rather…
Reframing – it’s really useful; except when it isn’t
The art of reframing is a management, leadership and coaching toolkit staple, but how effective is it? Reframing is the ability to show someone an alternative more useful perspective or ‘frame’ on a problem situation. It should be useful for that person, not just make you or them feel better……
Are you wasting time without even knowing it?
Time sometimes really does seem to slip away? We lose time often not because we are busy doing something important, but because our mind is stuck in it’s naughty bad habits. If you can identify your habitual time wasters and change them even just a little bit, you will free…
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…
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…
How to say No and stay friends using NLP
Do you find it hard to say no? The problem many people have with saying no is that they don’t want to offend or upset people, or they are afraid it will damage the relationship in some way. Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) explores how to use language in a way…
5 Effective Ways to deal with critical people
Do you ever feel like you have to over justify yourself or defend yourself against petty gripes and accusations? Some people can be naturally over critical. This creates an atmosphere of constant defensiveness which can destroy relationships, not to mention your self confidence if you have someone close or work…
What no research! Did someone just ‘make up’ NLP?
If the Wikipedia entry on NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) is to be believed, it is all a bunch on mumbo jumbo. If that’s true, why then, have over 150,000 people in the UK been trained in it and report using it with success? Why do people like Pharrell Williams, Oprah…