
When I’m working with a life coaching client on values it’s crucial before I try and work out the hierarchy I understand what each values means to them Even though every word has at least one literal translation in the English language, we also have a tendency, to put our own interpretation on what any particular word means to…
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My co-author of How To Be Rich and Happy, John Strelecky sent me this post yesterday to publish on the How To Be Rich and Happy blog. On reflection we both thought it better that it receive a wider audience. It’s not an uplifting tale, but it is one worth telling as suicide amongst teens is the third leading…
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I wrote a post last week for the How To Be Rich and Happy site called ‘Pay It Forward’. It was inspired by the actions of GM Baker who after reading her copy of How To Be Rich and Happy then wrote a message inside the cover saying: “If you find this book, the it is meant for you.…
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I’ve never done a life coaching case study before, largely because it’d never crossed my mind until somebody recently suggested it. Even then I was doubtful because there are obvious client confidentiality issues and I wasn’t even sure I could make one interesting to read. The latter reason evaporated when talking to a client recently. She had me literally…
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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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I got the following e-mail today from Lord Johnny of Truant and I asked him for permission to reproduce it here for you: “I’d like to set up some more coaching in the near future. Things have really, really picked up and a month from now, I may well be signing and dancing for joy. At that point, I…
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The best part of twenty years ago there was a lot of hype around the book ‘Chaos’ by James Gleick. I’d just read the brilliant Richard P Feynman autobiography ‘Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman’ which to this day is still one of my favorite autobiographies, and fancied myself as a bit an amateur science buff. However, I don’t think…
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Firstly, let me kick off by again saying thanks! I got a number of e-mails and some very kind words in the comments about Ellie. It’s really weird because I know some people will be thinking “What’s all the fuss about, it’s only a dog?” And I really get that, because if you have never been a dog (or…
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