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Is This Idea Bollocks Or Brilliant?

About ten years ago I was in a sales meeting with my manager. I can’t remember what breathtakingly brilliant idea I uncovered, but I can clearly remember Nic’s response.

“Tim, that’s why I like working with you. 9 out of 10 ideas you have are complete bollocks, but that 10th one is genius and worth listening to all the crap for”

To this day I’m still not sure if I felt good that I

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Is Fear Holding You Back?

Parachuitist Life Coach

I’ve read a few ridiculous posts on self development in my time, a few of them were even my own. But probably the most asinine was by a guy (and I genuinely forget who it was now) writing about fear.

He explained that we should all just let fear go, that there was no need for it in our lives.

If that wasn’t incredible enough in its own right he followed up with the

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You’re Not Broken

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 NLP presupposition that nobody is broken no matter what their circumstances.

I don’t want potential

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The Real Purpose of News

Sheep reading newspaper

Would the quality of your life disintegrate if you quit following the news, or would it improve?

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Is Life Coaching A Scam?

Man leaning on fence smoking

Is the Life Coaching and Self-Development industry run by a bunch a lunatics?

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The Ultimate Stress Busting Post

Stressed man

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 lives and it is neither possible nor useful to try and eradicate it. In fact

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Look Up!

Karate angry

Johnny Truant turns up at the Discomfort Zone talking about motivation, fear and Elephants. He also swears a lot so I need to give this post an ‘R’ certification.

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Creative People Are Flaky & Moody & Broke Too

dog-artist

Do you believe that to be artistic you have to a few kangaroos loose in your upper paddock? Or do you think it’s possible to be creative without losing the plot and drinking yourself to death?

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