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What will keep you safe?
Tweet That might appear to be an odd question, but it is an incredibly important one. I have been spending precious time of late working with some people in a small and very special drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre, learning a great deal. It is not a closed unit and the clients could walk out…
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What Will Your Perfect Business be Like?
Tweet Or, if you are not in business, try substituting ‘life’ or ‘career’ or whatever other important life activity is uppermost in your mind and it’s still a very useful question. It is Gerard Jakimavicius’ coaching question in Good Question! and it’s a very helpful one because it points to the importance of having a…
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Are You in a place of ‘I Can’ or ‘I Can’t’?
Tweet This is Sanjay Shah’s question in my book Good Question! The Art of Asking Questions to Bring About Positive Change, which is full of good questions for coaches and for anyone who wants to improve life at home, at work or in business. Faced with the English Channel on a grey day, any day…
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What’s the difference between a job and having your own business?
Tweet After many years of self employment I’ve got a part time job as well as running my own business and I am enjoying it, even though it’s quite tough work with recovering addicts. All my coaching skills come into play, but in a framework set up by someone else. Though I love the freedom…
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What is the big deal about questions? And 5 good reasons for asking questions.
Tweet After all, we are told that we live in an information age and that if only we can package it up nicely and reach the many we can make our fortunes by sharing our individual, unique knowledge with the world. And questions are the antithesis of information aren’t they? They reveal we don’t know…
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How to make a good decision
Tweet In this century many of us are faced with more decision-making than in any time in history. Just choosing what to have for dinner can be a big decision with the whole of world cuisine to consider along with the tastes and dietary needs of each diner! Staying or not staying is much more…
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Being a whole person
Like it or not, we bring a whole host of aspects of ourself into life situations, even ones as far removed from primeval life in the forest as they can possibly be.
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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…
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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…
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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…