Coaching Ideas & Inspiration

If I was to ask you: "When employing someone, which is most important: their Knowledge, Attitude, Skills or Habits?", what would you answer? Because I remember being asked this when on management...

On a walk in the woods recently, I saw winter's accumulated garbage and litter everywhere. It looks strangely depressing next to the crocuses and yellow daffodils. Everywhere I look, things are budding and...

The "Wheel of Life" may be 'old hat' to many of us, but it's endlessly flexible. Did you know that the categories we use on the Life Balance Wheel can be used to help make decisions on everything from life...

Contrary what we've been told, achieving our goals does NOT give us lasting happiness. Working towards and achieving goals is the PURSUIT of happiness. Because eventually the euphoria wears off and then...

Ben Renshaw in his mini-book, The Secrets of Happiness says: On average by the age of eighteen we will have been praised and encouraged 30,000 times—and most of this... by the time we are three. By...

I love inspirational quotes, don't you? And over the last 15 years I have diligently collected well close to two thousand of them! There is so much wisdom in quotes - and being short and sweet they can be...

Imagine a glass full of water scooped up from a puddle in a field. It's muddy and swirling around—like our daily lives, full of activity, messiness and life! But if you put that glass of water down and...

This article from Master Coach Steve Mitten looks at the perils of the relatively recent phenomenon of multitasking. The explosion of online tools, resources and apps that—even while they're extremely...

When we talk about Time Management, what we're really talking about is prioritising and focusing on what's most important - and eliminating and reducing what isn't. And when we do THAT, yes, we're more...

The secret to making it as a coach is to keep at it. You could call it perseverance, but I like to call it STICK-TO-IT-IVENESS. And Here are 10 Examples of “Stick-to-it-ive-ness” For You to Try:...