Creativity – Guaranteed!

If I could show you a guaranteed way of being more creative, would you be interested? If you said no, then I suspect your creativity is through the roof, so if I could show you a guaranteed way of being more analytical when necessary, would you want to know more? Well I can, so read on. There’s a better…

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Lower Your Standards

I have never met a client that didn’t hold themselves up to higher standard than they did others, even those closest to them. I don’t think this is simply because I’m a Life Coach and my view is skewed because people come to me to change, I honestly believe it’s about as close to a universal truth as possible.…

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What Do You Really, Really Want?

Since writing my post ‘Dream Big Or Go Home’ for the How To Be Rich and Happy website I have been giving a lot of thought to goals and dreams. I got to wondering how many brilliant discoveries, inventions and breakthroughs the world has missed out on because people were worried about sharing their ideas through fear of ridicule?…

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Life Coaching Jack Bauer

I was watching 24 the other night and thinking to myself Jack Bauer is a bit mental. I know as a Life Coach it’s not really the done thing to make such derogatory statements about people I don’t know (or even those I do know for that matter), but I’ll make an exception for the gravelly voiced one, because…

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Work/Life Bullshit

Beaver

A few months ago I was sat in my office one evening beavering away like Barry the Bustling Beaver when my wife walked into the room. She stood at the door without saying anything and I glanced up to see her giving me one of her ‘special looks’ “What’s up?” I asked rather suspiciously. She looked at the clock…

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Banishing Phobias and Fears

Snakes

About 10 years ago I was in a sales meeting with a customer who happened to be a Life Coach and psychologist. I can’t remember how we got onto the topic, but I was telling him about my sisters severe phobia of snakes that she’d had most of her life. When I say severe phobia, I mean really, really…

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How To Quit Smoking

Smoking woman

Before I kick off let me ask for a favor if I may be so bold. If you know somebody that wants to quit smoking or you think would quit with the right help, send them this post or a link to this post. There really is no need for anybody that wants to quit not to be able…

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Is That So?

Dragons

Once upon a time when dragons roamed the earth, guru’s were thin on the ground and the Internet was still on dial-up, there lived a very wise man in a land far, far away (probably China). This particular wise man was so wise he was deemed to be a Zen Master.  In the wisdom stakes that’s pretty damn good,…

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