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Personal Development » Coaching | By Wayne Messick @ Saturday, 15th April 2006 @ 8:57 AM

If you expect to succeed as a professional solution provider - coach, consultant, etc., you first have to last. Just last long enough and you'll be the only person who got started when you did, who is still around. After all, 80-90% of the folks who got into coaching or insurance or whatever when you did, will fail and leave the business and it will all be yours. So while you are busy outlasting the others - there is one thing you must do if you want to ever develop a sustain... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Biana Babinsky @ Friday, 14th April 2006 @ 12:04 PM

Many of my coaching clients are coaches themselves, and quite a few of them have asked me how to promote their coaching business online. Here is some of the information I have shared with them. Use these tips and ideas to promote your own coaching practice online, get more clients and make more money: - Have a Professional Web Site. In order to attract online clients, you need to present a very professional image online. People who find your web site will equate the professional look and ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Clare Evans @ Thursday, 13th April 2006 @ 6:14 AM

Our beliefs are formed from our experience of the world around us and often develop early on in life. Limiting beliefs are what stops us from moving forward and making progress by clouding our view of the world. Whatever you believe, will cause you to behave in a way that reinforces that belief. Such beliefs may be – “I’m not good with figures”, “I can’t do that …”. Any statement where you use the words ‘always’, ‘never’ or ‘can’t’ is likely to show-up a limiting belief and it can app... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Kristin S. Kopp @ Saturday, 8th April 2006 @ 11:59 PM

How do you feel about the word “indulge”? Does it get your back up a little bit, cause a twinge, or remind you of words you’ve heard about the indulgent and spoiled rich? In your mind, does there seem to be a connection between arrogance and the indulged few? Does it seem that you don’t fit in the lifestyle of the rich and famous? And even if you did, you’re not sure you’d want to be in the company of those who indulge in their wasteful whims. Even some dictionaries suggest that in... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Kunbi Korostensky @ Wednesday, 5th April 2006 @ 3:11 AM

When potential clients call me to inquire about coaching for their various life changes, I find myself asking them to tell me where they are right then. This helps me get a good sensing of how connected they are with their inner self and emotions. A few who are able to say precisely where they are emotionally tell me they are ready to move on but feel stuck. Others are not sure that they are able to let go at all. While again some people simply don't know what they're feeling.<... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Ineke Van Lint @ Saturday, 25th March 2006 @ 1:09 AM

Those who fail, follow the laws of failure.Those who succeed, follow the laws of success. It is impossible to reach success with a scheme of failure thoughts in your mind. It’s impossible to have good health with a scheme of illness thoughts. Your behavior is directed by your thoughts. Thoughts of failure, disease, loneliness and fear push you into a behavior which leads you directly to fail, become ill, feel lonely and fearful! You can deny this principle or fight... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Kristin S. Kopp @ Friday, 24th March 2006 @ 2:36 PM

We all create. We all create everyday. We create on purpose, with intention and clarity or we create by accident, with mixed results. We make life happen, or life happens to us. We manifest our dreams or our demons. We are involved in manifesting our experience of everything whether we know it or not. It wasn’t until the 1960’s that it became common in Western civilization to acknowledge that we individually and collectively create our reality. Some of us have come a long way in this unde... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Jason Johns @ Wednesday, 22nd March 2006 @ 2:17 PM

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting bad grades make you realize that you need to study. Debts remind you of your inability to look for a source of income. Being humiliated gives you the ‘push’ to speak up and fight for yourself to save your face from the next embarrassment. It may be a bitter experience, a friend’s tragic story, a great movie, or an inspiring book that will help you to get up and get just the right amount of motivation you need in order to improve yoursel... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Jason Johns @ Wednesday, 22nd March 2006 @ 2:08 PM

There are many things that drive people to success, and a key factor is what is known as ‘internal dialogue’. This is the dialogue that is constantly playing inside your head. It’s the voice that starts talking as soon as you do something, meet someone, or think about anything. In many cases, this voice can be destructive and knock you down, though it is possible to quite easily harness his internal dialogue and use it to propel you to the success you desire and deserve. You may no... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Ineke Van Lint @ Saturday, 4th March 2006 @ 8:58 AM

I’m sure you read a lot of times this sentence : you need first to love yourself. But what does that mean? Is it about getting you a hot chocolate when you are cold? Is it about getting you a new dress when you feel like it? Is it doing whatever you want when you want it? Is it about putting warm clothes on when it’s freezing outside? Loving yourself means to learn to treat you like a loving parent would do with his child. When you are an adult, and I assume you are, you still ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Richard Ross @ Tuesday, 28th February 2006 @ 8:23 PM

Not long ago I was conducting one of my training teleclasses in my Energy Healing Facilitator Training series. When we got to a place where I needed to demonstrate one of the processes, I asked for a volunteer student from the group who was willing to use a real issue for the demonstration. A student volunteered, and her issue was a lot of anger she had been feeling toward her husband, for his way of treating her in the marriage. As the student and I went through the short process... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Marian Massie @ Sunday, 26th February 2006 @ 6:03 AM

If you’re like me, you’re fascinated with the mind. I know I have been, ever since I was small. Here’s what I believe… Understanding how your mind works is enormously important for helping you reach your goals faster. Even more importantly; Your subconscious beliefs are likely to be the primary reason you’re not achieving everything you desire in life. So let’s explore further how the mind works. The mind is composed of the conscious and the subconscious. The conscio... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Dave Lloyd @ Thursday, 23rd February 2006 @ 12:19 AM

Choosing a therapist is a critical step in adulthood for many. It's a declaration of needing and wanting the support of a professional for a problem one cannot resolve through resources at hand. In simpler terms, it means paying someone for their expertise to solve a problem you have. And therapists are available to meet their client's needs in many areas of life. Different Forms of Therapy, notably Psychotherapy The most common type of therapist is a psychotherapist... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Richard Ross @ Tuesday, 21st February 2006 @ 9:13 AM

In writings about emotional issues in people’s lives, you have probably seen reference to the term polarity. One way to notice when we have a polarity within our life is when we have an unwanted situation that never seems to completely heal or resolve. This is often because we have a fixed, negatively charged, viewpoint about our situation (or about someone in our life). Another way of explaining this phenomenon is to say that, with every unwanted issue in our life (fear, trau... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Lee Colan @ Thursday, 16th February 2006 @ 7:56 PM

Getting the best from yourself and others all starts with the power of one… One Thought, One Word, One Action. “One” is the first note in orchestrating your attitude. Contrary to the lyrics from a classic rock song, one is not the loneliest number. It’s the most important one! Your thoughts, words and actions are like individual notes that work in concert to create the power of one person – YOU – to make a difference. You can harness your power of one if you simply: more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Ineke Van Lint @ Tuesday, 14th February 2006 @ 5:39 PM

Did you know that you can not create energy yourself? You can just activate the universal energy, which exists always and will always exist. This Energy gave you life. It’s always there, at every moment, for everyone. There is no such thing like people with a lot of energy and other ones without energy. The difference is that energetic people know how to activate this always available energy. And the low energy people, they block this energy, which is although always available ... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Ineke Van Lint @ Saturday, 11th February 2006 @ 7:57 AM

So many people are complaining about the lack of love in their life. They act as if some stranger decided one day to take away the love out of their lives. They hold on to lovers already gone since eternity, or they dream about a partner coming into their life to give them everything they are not able to give themselves. They balance between hope and desperation. They look for love outside themselves and believe one day a charming prince on a white horse will knock at the door and take them away... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Robin Schepper @ Thursday, 9th February 2006 @ 4:02 PM

As we approach Valentine’s Day, the traditional day of love, I cannot stop thinking of the importance of self-love. One of my favorite philosophers, Joseph Campbell, said “as we love ourselves, we move toward our own bliss.” Even though Valentine’s Day is the day of love, it is often filled with expectation and disappointment whether we are in a relationship or not. My thought is: what would happen if we would broaden the concept of Valentine’s Day to be about self-love and self-care? Then w... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Cathy Warschaw @ Thursday, 9th February 2006 @ 8:11 AM

Motivation is what drives us mentally, physically, and spiritually. We all possess our own unique motivators that may or may not be hidden from us. The key to achieving your goals is to identify what your motivators are and harness them for forces of good. Motivational strategies Most people find that physical activity is an excellent motivator. If you haven’t tried exercise before, it may be worth your time to see if it increases your personal motivation. Engage in activity... more...

Personal Development » Coaching | By Paul Duxbury @ Friday, 27th January 2006 @ 3:06 AM

I am sure that at some stage in your life you have dreamed of being someone special, someone important or successful. It can seem so hard at times to take that first step and step outside where we are right now to where we want to be. Today more and more people want to take that first step and are finding themselves working with a Coach to achieve what they want. One of the first things a Coach will do when they work with you is help you to set yourself goals which you can then start to w... more...