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As I am approaching 50 years old, I recently sat down with my financial adviser to create a plan for the next 20 to 30 years of my life. He had some interesting advice which struck me as sensible and yet harsh in its honesty. He advised me to front-load my money in retirement and plan to spend much more in the first half then the second half.  His blunt assessment was that as we age, we naturally become less mobile, less adventurous, less energetic and less interested in spending...

What does living in the present mean to you? Living in the present is something we are hearing more and more these days. Whenever someone laments the state of our society and how social media is hijacking our minds, there comes someone who will tell us the solution is to live more in the present. Now, more than ever, there are plenty of apps which will give us a number of tailored mindfulness breathing and meditation exercises to help us in our daily lives. How simple is it to be more...

Mindfulness continues to grow in popularity and is undoubtedly a hot topic where wellbeing is concerned. It’s endorsed by successful people from all walks of life from athletes to celebrities and has also been adopted by schools, colleges, big businesses like Google, Nike and Apple and even the military. They have all discovered that mindfulness delivers a sense of calm, connection with ourselves and others, resilience, gratitude, alertness, awareness and much more.  In the West, we...

It happens every now and again. A new enquiry will come in from someone about coaching. They are curious, they are looking for change, and they think they are ready. We arrange the compatibility session and they are full of enthusiasm. Then with a few hours to go, a text or email will arrive saying something along the lines of "I'm sorry, I need to cancel" or "I've thought about it, and actually I'm fine". Now, I have no way of knowing what is going on, perhaps they really are fine, perhaps...

I was at networking event recently. A new business owner was telling me that for a number of years, she’d envisaged running a yoga retreat somewhere exotic. She initially had no idea who it would be aimed at or how she would even start this venture with no business knowledge. Nevertheless, she repeatedly visualised this retreat and over time, the idea developed, evolved and started to come to life. She pinned a photo of her vision to her kitchen wall and began retraining whilst in a full-...

Just a few lines here on the above, namely:1) What it is to be emotionally intelligent.2) What it enables us to do.3) What you can do today to be emotionally intelligent (if you’re up for it). So firstly, if we want to be emotionally intelligent, we will value ourselves and others, and be able to identify and understand why we:

think feel and behave

the way we do – and be able to manage/change any element as appropriate to meet our *emotional needs – thereby allowing...

The holidays can often be a time of happiness and stress. Juggling extra time with family and friends whilst not being in the office or being able to get on with the usual daily chores. It is a balancing act that we are all trying to get on top of. How can we take time out of our busy lives to have fun, relax and recoup without paying for it on Monday morning? How can we tap  into your inner resources, and use them to your advantage, so that we can engage in life in exactly the way that we...

An intuitive coach is a professional who follows principles and teachings of traditional coaching, such as goal setting, creating action plans, working on blockages, habits and beliefs. But, moreover, they allow you to connect to the deepest parts of yourself, guide you through your intuition and help you to tap into the power of the divine energy we all feel the presence of. The laws of the universe are the key elements that take part in the intuitive coaching practice; they indicate...