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Just Ask the Damn Question

Life Coach asking for help

Shortly after I moved to the US in early 2006 I bought a copy of the bestseller ‘The Why Cafe’ by John P Strelecky.

I forget now what question prompted me to e-mail the author, but e-mail him I did and asked for some feedback.

I was shocked when the reply came back within an hour suggesting we meet up for breakfast the following week.

I’d no idea that John lived literally less than

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World Class Self Development Training

As I said at the end of my previous post The 7 Deadly Sins of Self Development’ today I want to tell you about some awesome self development training that is real worth checking out.

This is not just useful for Life Coaches or people working in therapy, but also for people that want to make significant change in their own life, but maybe don’t want to work one-on-one with a Life Coach.

If

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The 7 Deadly Sins Of Self Development

I don’t suppose there really are any deadly sins with self development, I was being overly dramatic with the title.

But there certainly are areas where I see people make the same mistakes again and again and again, and you don’t have to be one of them

If that is, you avoid the following 7 self development deadly(ish) sins:

1: Thinking Being Hard On Yourself Is The Best Way Forward

I have been beating

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30 Amazing Facts About Your Brain

Scientist working with Life Coach

Useful Self Development Brain Stuff

1. You have a finite amount of will power each day because to exercise will power you need energy in the form of oxygen and glucose That’s why it’s harder to say ‘no’ when you are tired or not feeling yourself.

2. A thought is a physical pathway in the brain. The more you have that thought the more you groove that path and the easier it

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How Do I Meditate?

Life Coach meditating

In my previous post ‘What Is Meditation?’ I hopefully debunked some of the myths about meditating that may stop you from engaging in something that has been scientifically proven to improve health, cognitive function, happiness levels and even lengthen life.

I may not know you, but I’m pretty sure there’s nothing in the above list that you wouldn’t like more of.

Let me take things a stage further to show you how serious I

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What Is Meditation?

Hippy Life Coach

When I take on a new Life Coaching client the first thing I do is to send them my intake forms to fill in so I can gather some background information.

On one of the forms I ask them to rate their satisfaction levels out of 10 in 16 different areas of their life.

There’s good reason for doing this and it’s largely because, even though a client may come to me with one

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How To Do Your Best Work

When I first started Life Coaching full time I used to spend a long time prepping my calls.

I’d read my client intake forms, check previous notes if applicable and then spend ages, often getting anxious, trying to come up with cunning Life Coaching questions.

I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say there were times when I probably spent longer prepping than the actual call itself took.

After a year or two of

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Self Developments Greatest Books For Free

Self development books have had an amazingly positive effect on me and my life. I’m pretty sure without them I wouldn’t be a Professional Life Coach, or at least not a very effective one!

Since I started blogging back in 2006 I have written lots of reviews and more than a few list posts such as The Greatest Self Development Books Ever Written and The Best Self Development Books Of 2011.

On a couple

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