Recently, I posted the Wheel of Life exercise I use in my personal development workshops. It prompted me to start thinking about my own life. It has been quite a long time since I did that exercise for myself and…
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Life Coaching: My Wheel of Life
Posted in Life Coaching, Personal Development Tagged with: 7 habits, Exercise, Personal development, Self Growth
The Wheel of Life
Recently, in a conversation with one of my mentees, I suggested she might use the Wheel of Life exercise in her Life Coaching business. It is an exercise I often use myself in my Workshops. I got the basic idea…
Posted in Life Coaching, Personal Development Tagged with: 7 habits, Exercise, Personal development, Self Growth
Stephen Covey – A Tribute
It was with sadness that I recently read about the death of Stephen Covey. As my regular readers will know, I have a great deal of admiration for the man and his work, and he exercised a strong influence on…
How to be Happy
Today, I came across a blog post on the subject of how to be happy. The article was full of well-meaning, but (in my opinion) bad advice, so I thought I would address this question in today’s post. It was, I…
Posted in Life Purpose, Personal Development, Spiritual Tagged with: 7 habits, Christian, God, Passion
Forming New Habits
When I was in my twenties, I remember speaking with someone who told me that if you were to take just three deep breaths every day, you would never suffer from certain ailments or diseases. Sadly, I cannot remember which…
How to Change
Personal development is fundamentally concerned with the process of change so, in this article, I want to address the question of how to change. As human beings, we are all essentially change-resistant. We don’t really tend to like or embrace…
Posted in Personal Development, Personality, Self Improvement Tagged with: 7 habits, Change, Personal development, Self Growth
The Laws of Success – Part 3
At present, I am working my way through The Laws of Success in 16 Lessons by Napoleon Hill. Today I read lesson three on the subject of self-confidence and I really enjoyed it. Hill’s style is a little indirect at…
Buffling About the Bush
Today, I learned a new word: buffling! It is a concatenation of the phrase ‘business waffling’ and, if you will pardon the pun, it does exactly what it says on the tin. When I worked for a large computer company…
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
In my management workshops, the 7 habits provide the framework for the second day. After examining various management styles on day 1, we look at the habits as a vehicle for transformation. These habits represent timeless success principles that may…
Proactively Dealing with Stress
One day, at my last place of work, the managing director asked me to write our new stress management course. At the time, I remember telling him that I did not think it would be a success. If people wanted…
