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If, like most people, you have started the year excited, with lots of plans in mind and have enthusiastically thrown yourself into it, you may experience a dip by the second half of January. The prospect of the New Year and a new start gets us excited. We put together extensive lists of things we want to do, habits we would like to change and goals we want to achieve. We start going to the gym, make smoothies from scratch and think about a career change only to feel overwhelmed a few weeks...

I have been asked many times whether coaching is right for grief and loss. To begin with, it may interest you to know that grief is not ‘officially’ categorised as a mental illness (although the side effects can be), so it doesn’t necessarily require any treatment from a mental health professional. Outside of mental health services, there are many counsellors, therapists and coaches who have all trained and specialised in grief and loss. It is my own experience of grief and...

What does it mean to 'pace' yourself? It could be a fast pace, as with lots of options coming at once that can overwhelm you. Or things could be coming to your business too slowly... Drip, drip, drip. Better than flooding in perhaps, or maybe not? At least with the flood, there are ways you can pace yourself and slow things down a little. 4 ways to slow down

Prioritise which opportunities to develop first or which tasks to manage today, then which can be dealt with later in the...

We’ve all been there. As the year comes to a close, we are filled with emotion for what could have been and ambition for what could be. We then start to reflect on all the things we would like to change in the coming year. And as the count down to the new year begins so begins the count of all the goals for the year ahead.

This is the year I am going to lose the weight. This is the year I am finding a job I love. This is the year I am going to find him (or her).

And so it goes....

We’ve all been there. Stuck in a rut. Same old routine. Day in day out. Now, whilst some routine is always present, indeed probably welcomed, when your whole life becomes the same, you’ll probably end up feeling quite down and demotivated. It happens to everyone and can happen for many reasons although fear and limiting beliefs are often implicated. Managing limiting beliefs is the subject of another article I’ve written that you’ll find on the Life Coach Directory....

I wanted to dive into this topic as it is quite common for people to try to apply self-help advise from books or online without success before deciding to reach out and work with a coach to overcome their challenges. Most people are extremely overwhelmed by the amount of self-help advise they are consuming from internet, books or workshops. Often the amount of overwhelm is greater when reading a tonne of advice than the amount of overwhelm generated by the challenge itself. This happens...

To some people, the idea of getting some coaching seems like the thing to do when you have a specific goal you want to achieve, and you need some strategy or structure to get you there. To others, going for coaching is more about finding that goal in the first place; maybe they are feeling lost and directionless, or even lacking in inspiration. Although a lack of inspiration or a goal to strive for might sound like a bit of a ‘western problem’, it’s a different story when...

How do you deal with it? Head down? Constantly moan to whoever will listen on Facebook? Begrudge anyone who sits next to you and loudly chews? Or do you do it differently? The daily commute can be draining and expensive. According to the BBC, the average UK commute is 54 minutes with Office for National Statistics figures showing 3.7 million workers travelling for two hours or longer. And it’s not just the time. According to a Total Jobs survey, the average UK employee spends £146...

Happy New Year to you! Do you want to have an outstanding year and create a compelling future?It's that time of year again where most of us reflect on the previous year and start to think about what we want to achieve in the year ahead. A lot of us have tried new year’s resolutions but often don’t stick to them.We are complex individuals living in a complex world. Most of us lead busy live’s with high demand on many fronts, whether that’s work, family, friends, studying,...