Category: Coaching Topics

  • Contribution: 6 Things Your Heart Needs to Hear You Say About the New Year 2013

    Contribution: 6 Things Your Heart Needs to Hear You Say About the New Year 2013

    Contribution can be small or great, but even your smallest contribution can change a person’s life, and make your heart grow. Being able to contribute makes you feel valued, and strengthens your self-esteem.   You are a unique and amazing individual. You have inside you a source of strength and wisdom waiting to be shared…

  • Praise and Criticism – A Story From The Monastery

    Praise and Criticism – A Story From The Monastery

    I’ll never forget the rather amusing altercation between two of the monks at the monastery one day involving buckets of water!  Giving and receiving praise and criticism can play havoc with our emotions if it goes unchecked.  Both Brother Matthew and Brother Simon (names changed for anonymity) had been engaged in an ego-game of criticising…

  • Are You Living By Your Values?

    Are You Living By Your Values?

    Are you living your life with purpose and direction?  Do you have a clear sense of where you are going and what things you would like to do or achieve?  Are you doing the things you love?  If you answer yes to these questions then you are almost certainly living by your values.  What was…

  • Stress: Do you React? Or Do you Respond?

    Stress: Do you React? Or Do you Respond?

    We all have routines in our daily lives that we perform in an automatic way.  Whether it be driving our car to work, having lunch at certain times and in certain ways, or the way we reach for the pen at our desk every day which has been sitting in the same pen holder.  In…

  • Respect: Top 10 Ways We Can Lose it

    Have you ever felt surprised or shocked when someone treated you with a lack of respect for no apparent reason?  You may be the best at your job, and maybe even acknowledged for your skills and competency at what you do but still find yourself frequently on the receiving end of disrespectful behaviour.  If that…

  • When You Can’t Change Things Try Changing Your Perspective

    Any given situation can be looked at, or interpreted in different ways.  Your experience of life is determined not by your circumstances, but by your perspective of those circumstances.  Quite often we are unable to do anything about our circumstances, which may be lead to suffering on our part.  But with a little conscious effort…

  • On Being a Good Coach

    On Being a Good Coach

    In order to help another your own life should be based on a solid foundation. A good coach is someone who is consciously working on themselves, continuously trying to grow and improve.