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Should I ditch my struggling friends and hang out with the super happy and ultra-successful so their success rubs off on me? I have certainly heard this strategy of hanging out with the right people to enhance your own success, especially when you're starting a business. If you are spending time with people who are struggling to make ends meet and whose conversation revolves around moaning and criticising, it can be exhausting. You can get swept up in this way of thinking and adopt it as...

We’ve all been there. Maybe you’ve got a big project due at work, so you’ve decided to put in just a few extra hours in the evenings answering emails and getting research done. Before you know it, you’ve lost the whole weekend to ‘just one more email’, and you can’t remember the last time you sat at the dining room table without a phone or laptop out. 

Perhaps your department is short-staffed; you decide to be a team player, giving up your much-needed day off or pulling a double shift to...

What is more important to you; your car or yourself? Now, I am sure most of you wonderful readers will choose yourself. Why wouldn't you? Your car is just a materialistic item, whilst yourself, is, well you! However, each year your car (if over three years old) requires an MOT. The MOT decides whether your car is roadworthy or not. It will also highlight any potential issues that may be coming up in the next few months which will need to be resolved ahead of the next MOT date. In 2015, the...

Would you like to be 'fit' to learn everything you can from the experience of not getting that job so you can up your game next time? Would you prefer to bounce back more effectively when you don’t get the grades you wanted? Would you rather be able to gain insight quickly into why a relationship isn’t working? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then emotional prehab is for you! I’ve seen quite a lot in the press over the last few months about the concept of...

Who wants to be second best? Our bodies get a rough deal. For too long, they've been the poor relation to the almighty brain, the source of all wisdom and insight. Our western culture has come to dumb down the importance of trusting your instinct and listening to the intelligence in your body. We see going along with your gut feeling as poorly considered, lacking the logic we seek. Our feelings or senses are dismissed as wishy-washy. We need cold hard facts to back up what we do! We want...

The higher the building, the stronger the foundations needed. Here are three actions to take before developing your business plans to ensure you are building your self-employed life on firm ground. 3 steps to help you build your business Clarify your whole life vision Perhaps some circumstances are propelling you towards self-employment. Redundancy, feeling you are lacking money and/or time, or falling out of love with your employment can all give your business plans impetus. If you are...

Discovering mindfulness has helped me transform my life in many ways and as someone with perfectionist tendencies myself, I was keen to explore and share how a more mindful approach can help those working in busy organisations to minimise its potential stressful effects and impacts on confidence. What is a perfectionist? Perfectionists set excessively high goals for themselves, and when they perceive they have failed to deliver, they engage in major self-criticism. Perfectionists can, also...

Looking for change You look for a coach because you want change. You want something in your life to be different. The war within More often than not, we come to coaching because there's something not quite right about how we're living. We feel dissatisfied and restless. When we dig a little deeper, we may even find we have parts of ourselves that are at war with each other. We may not even be aware that there is an internal discord until we talk to someone about it. All we know is that we're...

You, employee engagement and coaching Have you ever considered what coaching can do for you personally? As well as being transformative for individuals, it can have an amazing impact if you adopt a coaching culture in your business and equip your leaders with coaching skills. The greatest way to measure this impact is through measuring employee engagement. As I’ve studied employee survey results, it’s astounded me how many people would trade their next pay rise for their immediate...