I’ve been busy trying to get my do it yourself life coaching book finished since I got back from my vacation. Entitled ‘Don’t Ask Stupid Questions – There Are No Stupid Questions’ it is a self-help book for people that don’t usually buy self-help books. No, let me back track a bit there. It is […]

Further to my Blog a few days ago about getting too attached to material things I wanted to take this a stage further because it got me to thinking about a process I went through prior to moving over from the UK to Orlando.   As you can imagine, emigrating is a lengthy and time-consuming […]

About 6 years ago I was flying from Miami to London with my wife after a vacation to the Caribbean. It was the first time we had flown after 9/11 and airport security was ramped up, as you would expect. The lines were horrendous and not helped by the fact that most people didn’t really […]

Whilst I was back in the UK I went to visit an old boss of mine for a catch up and talk about old times. The guy in question was without doubt the best line manager (direct report) that I ever worked for and the fact that he has been promoted 3 times in the […]

I got back from two weeks in the UK this week. It was good to go back and see family and I had a great time but it left me absolutely drained. I couldn’t quite understand why this should be so at first but after a bit of thought I am sure that I now […]

When I work with life coaching clients I try and ascertain from the start what it is they want to acheive from coaching. This may sound obvious but it isn’t always as straightforward as it may sound. Many people are accustomed to saying what they don’t want as a way of explaining what they do […]

I was watching the brilliant Dr. Richard Bandler on DVD the other day. It was a programme he recorded in the UK where he demonstrated rapid hypnotic inductions. As co-founder of NLP Dr Bandler has 35 or so years experience and he has so much stage presence and charisma that he is truly peerless in […]

All this weekend has been taken up with moving home. The fact that we only moved about 75 feet across the road made things somewhat easier but the Florida heat that took us over 100 degrees when you factor in the humidity removed most of that advantage. Things went as well as can be expected […]