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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...

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...

It sounded like a good idea at the time. Three months previously I had volunteered to run a creative workshop at our parish environmental event. It would be easy - all I had to do was bring along my collection of objects destined for recycling and a few tools, and 'hey presto' - all my participants would start creating beautiful things from what might otherwise have been thrown out. Six days ahead of the day, the situation didn’t look so rosy. What did I want them to make? Exactly what...

We are now halfway through the year. What were the key changes you had in mind for this year? Where do you stand right now? From July to December, what are the big calls you want to make? Taking yourself to the next phase of your life requires energy;

energy to realise you may not be in a great spot energy to assess how you will free yourself energy to put a plan together and finally, energy to execute the plan.

To sustain this level of energy, some solid motivation is needed!...

How to create the life you want It's so easy to rumble on, not feeling quite right, not getting what you want. Months and years roll by, and suddenly you realise this isn’t where you want to be. Sound familiar? If this applies to you, then its time to take a stand and make a change! Read on for some tips on how to create the life you’ll love. Knowing what you don’t want isn’t the same as knowing what you do want. I always ask clients at the start of their journey what...

The world around us presents us with plenty of potential interferences and distractions ready to take us away from what it is we want to achieve. There is a well-known formula: performance = potential - interference. Therefore, it is crucial to you and your journey to achieving your goals that you keep your interferences to a minimum. Easier said than done, I hear you say! In a world, as mentioned, where we are surrounded by these interferences and distractions, it can become a real drain on...

In 2012, we decided to extend our two-bedroom cottage to create a family home. This was to be our ‘forever’ house. We had a fantastic architect who designed something awesome, and we found an equally excellent builder. The project was estimated to take six months, and it would require us to live elsewhere during that period. We wanted to be on site but anticipated that the build might take longer than expected. Renting somewhere in the town nearby might not have the flexibility we...