Our life is full of decisions. There are lots of small decisions we have to make on a daily basis such as what to eat for our dinner. There are also the less frequent big decisions covering something like a relationship or career move. Do you have a particular strategy that you apply to making decisions? What principles do you work to?
To niche or not to niche…that is the question
I spent this weekend in Derbyshire with some of my closest friends. I was shocked at the amount of snow my daughter and I experienced there. We enjoyed getting out in it and we even built a snowman! My friend said it looked like an owl- what do you think? I don’t usually attach pictures of myself and the stuff I do in these newsletters (other than the cheesy head shot), but I couldn’t resist this time J
The Seven Characteristics of a Successful Coaching Practise
I attended a training course at the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development in London recently. The trainer of the course (Dr Paul Brewerton from Blue Edge Consulting – who was brilliant by the way) repeatedly banged on about “self-directed neuroplasticity”. He provided a little background on the course that made me curious to learn more. Anyway, since then I have done some reading on the subject and to help my learning and provide you with something of use and interest I wanted to share my take on it with you. If you are interested in any kind of personal change then please read on….
I wrote a personal development eBook a few years ago called Life Tools. It contains lots of good tips on things such as goal setting, stress management, time management and lots more. You can get an Adobe PDF version by subscribing to my newsletter or you can view it online here: http://www.my-life-coach.co.uk/html/life_tools.html .
I was doing some work with a client recently on time management and my simple weekly planning technique transformed their productivity. Most people know what needs to be done, but just don’t find the time to do it. Are you one of those people that gets sucked into a Monday, chewed up by the working week and then spat out on a Friday? If so, read on…..I am going to share with you the
single powerful thing you can do if you want to take control of your time.
I am writing this article from outside in the fresh air. The weather in the UK has been great during September and the start of October. The sun is warming my face and there is a light breeze. It feels good. Many of you filled in a survey recently about the newsletter. Thanks for that.
I’ve experienced some technical problems at home recently, which meant that I didn’t have Internet access via my laptop. At first, I must admit that I was getting frustrated as I am used to being continuously online. These technical problems forced me down a route where I had to work offline most of the time and then go online occasionally to synchronize my email and do other tasks such as update my web site, blog and visit other web sites etc.
I started doing karate a few years ago. My aim was to get to black belt within three years. I did that and I recently made a decision to stop it and spend more time on my business and family. Most people who are effective at a particular sport will recognise the linkages to other areas of their life. On the face of it you wouldn’t think that there are similarities between two quite different activities such as karate and running a business, but there are quite a few e.g. concentration, focus, stamina etc.
