Category: Coaching

  • Eight tips for when there is too much to do

    Tweet Ever had days when you have had more than you can possibly do that you have to do?  Of course you have! Too many days like that and it’s a stress. Too much stress for too long leads to physical illness. How do you do get everything that has to be done done and […]

  • Ho’oponopono – Do you have to understand it for it to work?

    Tweet I was recently introduced to this practice adapted from traditional Hawaiian Huna teachings. One basic aspect is a mantra to say to oneself hoever often you can. It goes like this: “I’m sorry. Please forgive me. I love you. Thank you” Underpinning it is a belief or understanding that there isn’t really a distinction […]

  • Fast paced life and changes

    Tweet This blog is short because I’m packing and flying to the Philippines today to run a month of workshops. Today I am learning: *How much I can do to a deadline *That I should faff less and get more done when I make my own deadlines as well as when i have clear external […]

  • Wide vistas and few thoughts

    Tweet From this vantage point I am looking out over Auckland and the surrounding countryside and it is beautiful. It’s a huge city, one of the biggest in the world, but so spread out and with so much greenery in parks and gardens that it feels spacious. Places like this are good for gaining new […]

  • Walking the tide-lines of my life

    Tweet …and finding rich treasures. I am in New Zealand, which was my home for many years and which is my home when I am here, which I am for another precious week. tonight I walked along my favourite beach with a friend and no camera. It’s been stormy from the weather pattern that crossed […]

  • Retreat to Renew

    Tweet Pause, learn, heal, play and move forward Lower Largo, Fife, April 29th – May 1st 2011 Positive change to last a lifetime Be creative and appreciate YOU! Join us. Enjoy, be and renew Living foods, sea vegetables, fun, relaxation and nature Self renewal and food for healing Expert teachers Me – Judy Barber – […]

  • Getting over myself and into my blog

    Tweet Not only have I had an ailing laptop that would only travel at three miles per hour, then no laptop when it was being fixed and then a fixed computer that I was trying to catch up with everything on, but I have had ‘writer’s blog block’, which I hope is not contageous. This […]

  • A Personal Development Group in Edinburgh

    Tweet What do a red wooden box, a seagull and pink tissue paper have to do with personal development? Guests at the first meeting of the new monthly Edinburgh Coaching Support Group, on Wednesday 1st September, found out when Moira Beaton gave a well-crafted and beautifully delivered speech with unexpected metaphors that inspired us all […]

  • Wearing blinkers can be very helpful

    Tweet ‘Blinkered’ is often used in a negative sense, that of not being able to see the whole picture. But imagine a busy road pre the days of cars. Busy narrow roads with carts, carriages and people on horseback. With all the noise and confusion around perhaps the horses liked their blinkers so they were […]

  • Returning from Oregon

    Tweet As far as blogging is concerned, I often write brilliant ones in my head while having too interesting and busy a time to write things down. That was what it was like for the ten days I spent in Ashland, Oregon when I hadn’t really got into the swing of posting on this site […]