
It’s not unusual for clients to call me and after giving me a run down on their issues asking “Can you fix me?” My usual response is: “No, because you’re not broken” It may sound like I’m being glib and not listening to the person talking to me, but it’s neither. It’s simply a belief that stems from the…
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So there I was minding other peoples business on Twitter when somebody made a comment about Balloon Boy. I had no idea what they were talking about and foolishly said so. I was then deluged with links to the story about some kid who hadn’t climbed into his fathers hot air balloon, and then hadn’t floated half way across…
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I know when I issued my e-book on stress and called it ‘Stress is for Suckers’ some people thought I was taking stress lightly. Well let me tell you, nothing could be further from the truth. I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt when it comes to my old friend stress. We all have stress in our…
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Years ago there was a women in the UK called Mary Whitehouse. She was the bane of every teenage boys life as she went on a puritanical campaign to purge everything that was fun from TV, including ‘Dr Who’, ‘Till Death Us Do Part’ and nipples. She believed Society was fast forwarding into a bacchanalian abyss with TV leading…
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After the rambling intro to last weeks guest post by Pace and the subsequent mentions of it in the comments. I decided to knuckle down, take the comments in the jovial, well-meaning spirit they were meant and vow to stop gatecrashing my guests posts. Then as I was reading and preparing this post, I thought to myself, “What the…
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I am going to steal yet another bit from the most excellent Embracing Fear: and Finding the Courage to Live Your Life by Thom Rutledge that I am reading at the moment. I really am so very impressed with this book and from Life Coaches perspective think it is superior to the celebrated Feel the Fear and Do It…
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