Articles Relevant to Life Coaching
How your Abilities can have an Amazing Impact on your Self-Belief
By Nick Moody
You are the only person who can bring about your own success. Any undertaking of personal development or improvement has to begin with the understanding that your success is in your own hands...
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Neuro-Linguistic Programming for Fitness?
By Ainsley Laing
Last week, an old friend of mine (who I have known for almost 30 years), was telling me about how he feels about the current state of his life. He used the term "empty contentment"...
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Self-Image: The Catalyst for Change
By Garold Larson
Let’s talk about the topic of self-image and how it relates to personal change. Everyone has a concept of themselves - a self-image. You hear somebody say, “I’m just not good at math” or “I’m just not a runner” or “I’m just not musically inclined” or “I can’t sing.” You hear them describe themselves in these kinds of terms. Where did they get those ideas? Who told them these things? How do they know they can’t sing or they can’t run or they can’t do this or that? Where did they learn these things?...
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By Steve Gillman
What do I mean by the art of thinking? It may seem that powerful thinking should simply be logical, and nothing more. The ideal thinker then, might be Spock, the "Vulcan" in the "Star Trek" television show and movies. Of course, if you watch the program, you may recall that the humans aboard the spaceship had most of the solutions and new ideas. Spock only knew how to analyze...
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Dealing with Problem Habits - Tips for Life Coaches
By David Bonham-Carter
This article looks at a model of how people make changes proposed by the psychologists James Prochaska and Carlo DiClemente and how it can be used by life coaches as a framework for structuring coaching intervention, particularly in situations where a client is seeking to break away from a habitual form of behaviour which is creating repeated problems for them...
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By Mark Victor Hansen
Take mistakes as a learning experience. Yes, learn. If you can forget and let it go, fine; but learn from it in your forgetting process. The learning will prevent you from doing it again, and you will say to yourself, “I have learned my lesson. This I will never do again”...
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A Lesson in Persistence from the Supermarket Shelves
By Wendy Dashwood-Quick
I was in the supermarket the other day looking for a particular brand of raspberry jam.
Now, at first glance I couldn’t see it, but because I’m a stubborn so ‘n’ so I stood there and thought – “I’m not leaving until this jam turns up! No way!”
So, I kept looking, and looking and looking. “Somewhere amongst those jars is my jam!” I thought
I carried on in a demented fashion until “oh of course, there it is away from the OTHER raspberry jams on the shelf all on it’s own on the top shelf. How logical!”...
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