Coaching Employees for Success

Coaching Employees for Success  Many employers sit their workers down once a year for a review. At that time, the employee finds out what they've been doing right or if there are areas in need of improvement. But what happens the other 364 days of the year?

Coaching Models: FUEL and GROW

Coaching Models: FUEL and GROW  The concept of coaching originated in sport -- though historically the evolution of coaching has been influenced by many other fields of study, including those of personal development, adult education, psychology (sports, clinical, developmental, organizational, social, and industrial), and other organizational or leadership theories and practices.

John Wooden's Pyramid of Success can help youth coaches

John Wooden's Pyramid of Success can help youth coaches   In Coach John Wooden's book Wooden on Leadership he explains that he believes, "leadership is largely learned. Certainly not everyone can lead nor is every leader destined for glory, but most of us have a potential far beyond what we think possible" (p. 4).

How Does Hypnosis Work?

How Does Hypnosis Work?  There are many theories about the actual mechanics of hypnosis, and making sense of them can be a bit like playing Snakes and Ladders - you tend to end up back where you started a lot of the time.  But before considering how hypnosis works, perhaps the first question should be does hypnosis work?

How to Create an Empowering Vision Board

How to Create an Empowering Vision Board  Your brain will work tirelessly to achieve the statements you give your subconscious mind. And when those statements are the affirmations and images of your goals, you are destined to achieve them!

Optimising Your Nap Time.

Optimising Your Nap Time.  Taking a nap, we’ve seen time and again, is like rebooting your brain.  Everyone likes to get a quick nap in every now and then, but napping may be as much of an art as it is a science. The Wall Street Journal offers recommendations for planning your perfect nap, including how long to nap and when. 

Test 'predicts' teen depression risk

Test 'predicts' teen depression risk  A tool for predicting the risk of clinical depression in teenage boys has been developed by researchers.

What Do You Do Before Breakfast?

What Do You Do Before Breakfast?  We’re often at our peak in the mornings. This is why Mark McGuinness suggests the single most important change you can make to your workday is to move your creative time to mornings. We’re more mentally alert and our mental batteries are charged.

How Time Line Therapy® Can Assist Your Sleep

How Time Line Therapy® Can Assist Your Sleep  Do your limiting beliefs need a holiday? Isn't it time to send them on their way?

Do you want to redefine the way you think?

Are you applying your NLP skills and changing the way you do business with yourself?

Procrastination

Procrastination  Creation, renovation, transformation — making something out of thin air or making something over to better suit the bigger vision you have for your life.

Self-Hypnosis Helps Tourette's Syndrome

Self-Hypnosis Helps Tourette's Syndrome   Self-hypnosis taught by using videotaped instruction may help children and adolescents control the tics that characterize Tourette’s syndrome, a new study finds.

Self Hypnosis

Self Hypnosis Hypnosis, like meditation, has a dubious image. Many people over many years have made their living by overlaying this practical and useful technique with unwarranted mystical and magical rituals. In fact, it is a useful tool for achieving deep relaxation.

What is Time Line Therapy?

What is Time Line Therapy?  Since the introduction of the Line Therapy® Techniques in 1988 in the book Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality, there has been, not only excitement about the techniques themselves, but also major interest by the psychotherapeutic community and a rather rapid adoption of the process by people actively involved in seeing clients daily for various reasons. In the last few years, it has become obvious that an individual's Time Line with all the person's history -- his joys and fears, his happiness and sorrow, his loves and hates, his limiting and empowering decisions -- is a major part of that person's personality

13 Strategies to Turn Browsers into Buyers

13 Strategies to Turn Browsers into Buyers  What better way to kick off the week than by sharing a new sales & marketing video on how one simple concept can generate HUGE results. Marie Forleo calls this her "Dirty Little Secret" to making millions.

Cultivating Consciousness - Finding Opportunities

Cultivating Consciousness - Finding Opportunities If I told you that something was keeping you partially sedated for all of your waking life, you'd be skeptical, but it's true.

Actually, two negative forces are at work:

• The first prevents you from seeing much of what is in front of your eyes - perhaps more than half of it
• The second distorts the half you see, feeding you lies and half-truths

Why Coaching Works when Reading Doesn't!

Why Coaching Works when Reading Doesn't!  With the best will in the world, articles like those you may read here, really struggle to help people, and it's the same with even the very best coaching books. The one missing ingredient is the essential ingredient -interaction with you - by a real coach. Without that, even if we're desperate to see a way through - we generally can't - even if it's staring us in the face. Of course, I would say that, huh? But it really is completely true, and it's bizarre - why is it true? I've done so much coaching now that I know precisely why it's true:

Is Hypnosis Good for Your Health

Is Hypnosis Good for Your Health - When you hear the word "hypnosis", do you immediately think of someone barking like a dog or doing some other silly, embarrassing action? As amusing as that is, in reality, a hypnotist or hypnotherapist cannot make anyone perform an activity they would not normally do. Some experts say that every human is hypnotized on a daily basis and don't even know it! Keep reading to see how this ancient practice is good for your overall health.

145 Ways Hypnotherapy can help you!

145 Ways Hypnotherapy can help you!

Our Man Dan!

Our Man Dan!   Great story in today's Dundee Evening Telegraph - 'The Sporting Post' about my client Dan Fairweather.  Dan has gone into the senior boxing category after being the Scottish ABA Bantamweight Junior Champion 2013.

Why I Needed a Coach and Why You Might Need One Too

Why I Needed a Coach and Why You Might Need One Too   Among people I know, this is about as embarrassing as saying, "my nine-year-old isn't toilet trained" or "I have an STD," so you may be wondering why I am coming out with it.