I frequently get people that I am coaching telling me that they cannot do some particular task or other. It can be a little bit infuriating because often it is something that they haven’t even tried or at best have had one or two goes at. Imagine a baby giving up trying to walk after […]

When clients or friends ask me what is the key to successful self-development? I always say that I think it is taking responsibility for ones own life. Everything starts with taking responsibility because until you do so you will be forever thinking of yourself as a victim and that you have no real control over your […]

A week or so ago I was on some training although at the time my mind was somewhat elsewhere. I was waiting to hear the result of a soccer game back in the UK that the team I have supported since I was a young boy, Derby County, were playing in. Derby were one of […]

Do you ever find yourself going to bed and being unable to sleep because the events of the day are replaying themselves in your head in an endless loop? Is this usually worse during times when things are not going quite to plan or you are under higher levels of stress than is normally the […]

On the basis of a recommendation some while ago from a friend I finally got round to watching Patch Adams staring Robin Williams last night. For those of you that aren’t familiar with the movie, I would heartily recommend it as I thought it was absolutely excellent. It is about a guy that after spending […]

There is a pre-supposition in NLP that suggest that choice is better than no choice. It is probably the one pre-supposition that I do not whole-heartedly embrace. Last week our vacuum cleaner stopped working. It was a Hoover Savvy and about a year old. When I took it in to get it looked at I […]

I was at the gym one day last week and got on the treadmill next to a woman who was probably in her mid to late twenties. Almost immediately she made a phone call and started chatting to a friend about (it seemed to me) nothing in particular. Within a minute or so a middle […]

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