The Urgent Important Matrix: What it is & How to Use it! Reading Time: 6 min The Urgent Important Matrix is a powerful productivity and time management tool to help people manage their time more effectively. It divides tasks into 4 quadrants according to how urgent and important they... Read More...
7 Easy Ways to Energise and Refocus at Work—in 30 Minutes or Less! Reading Time: 3 min Sometimes we need to refocus and re-energise ourselves—and our businesses. And you'd be surprised how small these changes can be, yet still make a big difference. In fact small changes can be really good... Read More...
Should Coaches Who Have Depression or Anxiety Be Coaching Others? Reading Time: 6 min 30 sec This is a follow-up to the very personal article where I outed myself for having chronic anxiety (still active but reduced), depression (now past thankfully) and ADD (unsurprisingly still very... Read More...
Coaching Tools 101: How to Create More Joy in Life with the What Makes My Heart Sing? Exercise Reading Time: 4 min "What Makes My Heart Sing?" is one of my absolute favourite coaching exercises. I've used it with individual clients and in innumerable workshops. It's a powerful tool for awakening and happiness—and it's... Read More...
What are Facebook Interest Lists and Why Should I Care? Reading Time: 2 min 50 sec Facebook has got so overwhelming! Sometimes I'm just not getting the information I want in my newsfeeds. And from a business perspective, people who have liked my pages are not necessarily seeing my updates... Read More...
Relax Your Clients in Under 5 Minutes with these Guided Meditation Scripts Reading Time: 4 min 40 sec 2, 3 and 5 Minute Guided Meditation Scripts to Use With Your Clients! What a great way to begin a coaching session, workshop, teleseminar or webinar! Meditation calms our mind, relaxes our body and... Read More...
De-Stress Series: A Simple 4 Step Process to Help Your Clients Cope With Stressful Feelings Reading Time: 4 min Sometimes our clients come to a session feeling stressed, overwhelmed, guilty, pressured or anxious. It's hard to coach people when they're caught up in these thoughts and feelings, so it can be helpful for us... Read More...
My Very Personal Story: Why Slapping a Smile on Depression, Anxiety does NOT Work Reading Time: 3 min 30 sec Duncan (my husband) and I at a recent wedding Please Note: This article was written in 2013, and has had a few minor updates since then. It continues to be one of our most commented upon posts. This... Read More...
9 Real-Life Examples of Eustress - Stress Your Clients May Need MORE of! Reading Time: 3 min 26 sec Usually when we use the word 'stress' we're referring to so-called 'bad' stress or DIStress. But did you know there is a name for good stress? Eustress, pronounced YOU-stress, is a term coined by... Read More...
10+ Great LinkedIn Groups to Consider Joining if you're a Coach! Reading Time: 1 min 30 sec I initially wrote this post after having some great discussions on LinkedIn. LinkedIn really does seem to be a great place for networking with other coaches, meeting potential clients in a professional... Read More...