Nowadays the scale of our digital usage is quite frightening. Over one-fifth of us spend more than a working week - forty hours on our devices across seven days and on average we look at our phone five times an hour. That may or may not be surprising however it certainly can't be good for us. We can feel trapped, stressed, constantly available and expected to be so. In fact, fairly recently I was feeling somewhat overwhelmed by technology in terms of its ever presence. From a business...
Public speaking is one of the top three fears among adults in both the UK and the US, so although it might feel like you are the only one who is battling with the nerves, that’s very far from the case. Here are some tips that deal with some of the most common problems people experience with public speaking. Five tips to help you with public speaking Invite the attention in Do you hate that moment when you stand up in front of a group to speak and everybody looks at you? Well...
For executives and athletes, mental coaching is critical to attain and sustain high performance. The mental part of the “game” is crucial to decide outcomes such as victory or defeat. Here are a few questions I am often asked:
Why is my mind so difficult to manage? How can I prepare myself for key moments? How do I deal with my fears? Why do I feel I am not good enough? How can I stay focused under pressure? What makes a team super successful?
What do all these...
Every day at around 3pm, I was exhausted. I felt heavy and lethargic, and the most mundane tasks seemed nearly impossible. Washing a pot or reading a book felt like a monumental task. This went on for years. I’d visited my GP, gotten all kinds of tests, and they showed I was in perfect health, but I kept feeling tired, and no amount of sleep seemed to fix it. I tried increasing my caffeine intake, and instead of having more energy I experienced heart palpitations. I...
The famous lyrics sung by an optimistic orphan meant to inspire hope is also fittingly the mantra of a procrastinator - “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, you’re always a day away”. 'Later', 'not now', 'I’m not ready yet', or 'I’ll do it tomorrow' - these are all words and phrases all too familiar to someone who struggles with procrastination. Procrastination is a common issue for life coaching. After all, nothing seems to interfere with achieving...
Something that often holds people back from making a change and finding a coach is the uncertainty of not knowing how to tell if it is working or not. It’s easy to think that we could be turning up, chatting for an hour, and going back home for months without seeing real changes. With a good coach though, who has you at the centre of what they do, this shouldn’t be the case. Having said that, sometimes changes aren’t as obvious as we might assume. Read on to find out how...
Whether coaching clients are striving to boost their confidence, beat a phobia or find their purpose, they have one thing in common. Each of them talks about feeling stuck in some way, struggling to meet their own expectations (or those of the people close to them) of what life should be like. And they're in good company. According to a survey by GoDaddy, two thirds of Americans are frustrated with their progress in life and feel stuck in a rut. They claim that money, motivation and not...
We all have habits that we would really like to change, but we still just carry on doing them, and we perhaps don’t have the habits that we know we ought to have. For example, you probably think you should do more exercise, and you might even join a gym, but after a couple of months you somehow stop going. I looked at why we find it so hard to change in a previous article from a different point of view, and here is another approach. See which works best for you – in the end, that...
It's important to have personal insights into who you are and why, what 'turns you on' and keeps you motivated, why you do/can't do certain behaviours and habits, or what your strengths and areas for development might be, so you can take control of your life and your self! Self-awareness involves you understanding yourself, becoming more tolerant of others and aware of how you can help and influence your relationships with other people around you - at home, work, or in social situations,...
I was recently asked if any timeless wisdom had been handed down the generations of my family to me. This got me thinking, and I actually realised a lot of the sayings I had heard growing up, from different family members, didn’t sit very well with me. I have a particular discomfort around the phrase “What will be, will be”. I’ve always felt that is was a rather disempowering statement. What do you think? Although it will no doubt mean different things to different...
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