The Difference Between Counseling And Life Coaching

I was playing about with the Google Trends tool recently. Google Trends allows you to compare search terms and is helpful when trying to work out which keys words are likely to deliver traffic and which ones are not. I have to confess to being stunned by the results when comparing counseling versus Life Coaching. I realized that the…

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Talking To Myself

If you’re anything like me, and the rest of the human race come to think of it, you’re probably bombarding yourself with a constant stream of questions, all day, every day. You have between 50,000 and 60,000 thoughts per day and if you think about it, a great deal of those will be questions. Hopefully you aren’t one of…

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It 's Zen Habits, But Not As We Know It

Does it strike you as somewhat weird that with all the tools at our disposal to help productivity so many people still struggle to get everything done in the day? Wouldn’t you think with iPhones, broadband access, IM, e-mail, web conferencing and the like we’d save so much time our main concern would be whether to play golf, lie…

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The American Dream Lives, Thrives

About two months ago I was sent a book to review called ‘Scratch Beginnings’ by Adam Shepherd. It wasn’t the kind of book I’m used to receiving because it wasn’t really about coaching or self-development. Actually on reflection maybe it was about self-development, but not in the traditional sense. I took the book with me on my last trip…

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What Is Courage?

At the 1988 Calgary Olympics there was a guy representing the UK called Edward Edwards. Mr. Edwards was better known worldwide as Eddie The Eagle and he was the UK’s first, and to date, only Olympic Ski-jumper. Eddie had a chin that you could spear fish with, wore glasses that had the people working on the Hubble telescope drooling…

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Be A Career Renegade

About 6 years or go I was attending a sales presentation given by God. I say God, it may not technically have been the God, but it was by somebody that seemed to think he was God and he was certainly very senior in our company. After a rather tedious hour or so the guy asked if anybody had…

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How To Gain Instant Confidence

Anchoring is a very simple, yet powerful technique that can help you tap into confidence at the times you most want it. Here’s how you do it.

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I Need Your Help

I’m going to wrap up the whole goals and New Year resolutions thing today before I drag it on for so long that you’re distracted by thoughts of who to invite round for Thanksgiving dinner. I suspect that if you really intend making positive changes this year you’ve already begun to do so. If that is the case, I…

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