7 Keys To Self Development

One of the most difficult things for many people with self-development is the diving in and getting started part. I hear time and time again from new clients that they just can’t seem to do what they know they need to do to get to where they want to be. In fact it is often the reason why people…

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I'm Such A Loser

I found out some interesting stuff about myself with this de-tox malarkey. Nothing stunning you understand, I didn’t wake up in hell and decide to pull the arms one of Lucifers more vertically challenged helpers whilst grinning inanely, but interesting stuff nevertheless. Let me cut to the chase for those of you that just want to know how I…

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Little Scary Things (With Nasty Big Pointy Teeth)

Todays post is a guest submission from the brilliant Ali Hale of Aliventures and The Office Diet. Ali is a freelance writer, editor and web designer. Go check out her sites! Stepping into the Discomfort Zone doesn’t always mean doing some huge big scary thing like quitting your job, learning to paraglide or telling Great Aunt Maude what you…

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How Do You Change Somebody Else?

All I can say is WOW! I’ve had over 700 e-mails since complaining last week about the uptake for my ‘Ask The Coach’ section. Sadly though, of those 700, about 280 were from people telling me they needed to lodge $100 million in my bank account and I could keep half of it. 120 were from kind folk offering…

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Don’t Just Follow Your Passion

There are any number of books and blogs out there that are happy to tell you that you need to follow your passion in your work to be really and truly fulfilled. I’m here today to tell you, they’re all wrong. I must admit that until fairly recently I too believed in the chase your passion school of thinking…

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Dealing With Forgiveness

Ok, so here we go with the first in a series of indeterminate length called ‘Ask the Coach’ this is where you get to see my thrashing around like a cat being made to take a shower as I attempt to give credence to my title of life coach. It was a tricky choice of which question to choose…

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Get The Balance Right

As I said in the previous post, everybody has the ability to be both internal and externally focused depending on their circumstances. However, we usually have a tendency to lean toward one or the other. If you are by inclination an introvert* there will still be times when you are prone to being more extroverted*, that’s just how life…

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The Nightmare Scenario

You may not be aware of it, but you have a locus of control. In fact you have two of the little suckers, one external and the other internal. If you’re like most people you’ll tend to lean more towards one than the other, but both will come into play at varying times in your life depending on the…

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