Your Niche Is You

We’re all different.  We all have different things that motivate and inspire us and we all have different things that depress and demoralize us. Naturally there are things that are universal, most of us will be inspired by a story of an underdog defying massive odds or by receiving a gushing compliment. Similarly, watching a natural disaster like Katrina…

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Do You Want To Live Forever?

I had an e-mail the other day from sales and marketing guru and all round good guy Bob Poole.  I always enjoy reading Bob’s e-mails because he invariably makes me laugh out loud and he seems to be a one man disaster zone when it comes to weather mishaps. I don’t care how many feet of snow or inches…

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5 Myths of Goal Setting

The previous post, “Do SMART Goals Suck?’ created some really cool conversation in the comments and some strong opinions and well thought out arguments. Today I wanted to take some time today to dispel some of the myths, or at least what I think of as myths, of goal setting. I think some people quite naturally got wrapped up…

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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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How To Get Motivated

I probably do the values exercise with about 95% of my clients and as a rule, they love it. However, they’ve usually paid hundreds of dollars for life coaching and as such they are heavily invested in and committed to the idea of self development and improving their life. Getting that kind of buy-in from the average blog reader…

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What Are My Values?

The cool thing with writing in depth on Life Coaching is that I know I have the really hardcore people with me. People that actually intend to make changes rather than talking about doing so, or hoping they will happen by reading a post and doing nothing else. Newsflash: Positive change will not happen from staring at a list…

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What Are Values?

I have finally decided to give the Life Coaching farm away and take the time to explain the process I use to help a client understand his or her values and how that knowledge can benefit them. If you aren’t that keen on in-depth posts I suggest you check out 7 Killer Life Coaching Questions, because that has lots…

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In Defense Of The Death Penalty

The title of this post is somewhat strange and not the kind of thing you’d expect from a Life Coach writing a self development blog, but sometimes it’s necessary to push the boundaries. Today I’m going to explain why I think capital punishment is not just useful, but fundamental for the success of any modern society. I’m also going…

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