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Master your focus and make 2023 your best year yet
Do you know why most people don’t achieve what they want? It’s because they get distracted and lose focus along the way. To master your focus, you need to be able to focus beyond just the occasions that suit you. It is your ability to lock your mind in with frequency, often during the times when you would rather be doing something else. So, how do you master your focus? Read on to find out.
Who’s responsible for success and happiness in the workplace?
Is it the employer's role to enable happiness for employees? A puzzling question for a lot of bosses. Fair pay and flexibility are amongst the biggest things we assume people look for nowadays but what those same people say is what actually matters to them is quite different. Read on to understand more about this critically important topic along with a plan for your organisation to take action.
6 questions to find a coach who’s right for you
Find a coach and start making change, they said. If only it was as simple as that! Find a coach yes, but the process you have to go through to find a life coach that is right for you, isn’t as easy. You don’t know what you don’t know, you have to ask the right questions to decipher through the information. Read on for 6 questions to help you find a coach who’s right for you and make sure that you minimise the risk of getting it wrong.
Why you should love yourself now and how to achieve it
At a point in your life, you learned not to love yourself, but why? Maybe waiting until you get something or achieve a desired outcome? Thing is, this is fraught with flaws. You should love yourself now by respecting yourself and allowing your actions and thoughts to represent this as the path forward from this moment on. The real question is how. Read for more.
Your leadership has everything to do with it
Your leadership style holds your people back or drives them forward. In uncertain times, people look at leaders, and turn to the best in class leadership to navigate the rough seas. Is your leadership approach right now driving progress and supporting your teams, or holding them back? Read on for 6 scenarios and questions you should ask yourself to understand what you might be doing now and in the future.
The Great Disconnect and talent trends
What did over 15,000 people have to say about what matters at work? HR Managers, People Leaders and Business Owners, pay attention. Great people will leave organisations now because they are realising that it’s not just about the money. In fact, they will move for the same or less money if a number of their other needs will be over-delivered on by their new employer. Find out what those needs are.
Unlearn your limiting beliefs about self-worth
Understanding your limiting beliefs about self-worth may be the difference with you living a better life, the life you want and desire - because you believe that you are worthy of it. Self-worth comes from within as it relates to your sense of being good enough or conversely, not a worthy person. And you hold the power to build it up! Read for more.
HubSpot's Global Week of Rest: hype or mental health blueprint of hope?
Was HubSpot's Global Week of Rest just big tech hype or a mental health blueprint of hope? A recent study by Deloitte found that 77% of respondents have experienced burnout at their current job, and nearly 70% feel that their employers aren’t doing enough about it. So, if you aren't a global giant what can you take from this? Anyone who wants to help their teams, read on for what to do next.
People leaders: rethink your approach to set your team up for success
If you are a people leader, you know it's not easy. Your people are demanding more of themselves and their employer now than ever before so the real questions are: Can a training session be sufficient to set your team up for success? How do you care for the individuals in your team? For different results, you need to rethink your approach. Read more.
Unstoppable self confidence is in your hands
Is confidence an issue for you? Do you need more of it or do you need it back? The power of self confidence is not innate or just a gift some people have and some don't. It can be learned, practised and can become second nature over time. My 5 pillars strategy to build unstoppable self confidence will help. The formula is: Clarity + Acceptance responsibility + Learning new skills + Practice + Discipline and repetition. Read for more.
The male ego’s inevitable fall from grace
The male ego is deep-rooted but also fragile. When your ego runs wild and you haven’t got a clue how to keep in check, it can hold you back more than serve you. Understanding where it comes and how it drives your decisions can make all the difference. In this article, Luke Fenwick, life coach for men, gives practical tips to manage men’s egos and redirect focus on more serving habits.
How to heal emotional wounds
Emotional wounds, we all have them (or had them) from a difficult time in our past. Studies say that grief takes a minimum of 12 weeks to move through and emotional wounds need even more time to heal. This edition of TBS is about how to heal emotional wounds; less about the band aid solution but more, about the plan to help move you forward once the most important part is achieved which is… read on for 5 actions to take to heal your emotional wounds.
Mindset coaching: how you can take your mindset from ordinary to extraordinary
You can train your body as much as you like but in the end, your mind is the winner or the loser. Of course, as a mindset coach, I already knew that but when faced with a real-life obstacle that challenged everything I knew (a 60km ultra marathon), I got tested. This is a tale about mindset coaching and the lesson is not what you expect. Read on for the details.
The reasons why self esteem fluctuates and how to build it up
You can build up anything ☝️ even your self-esteem. This edition of TBS newsletter goes over why you may suffer of low self-esteem. Even though self esteem fluctuates, doing those 7 actions over time will help you build it up to a level that will guarantee more happiness in your life. So what are you waiting for?
Can you life coach yourself?
Life coach yourself out of whatever is holding you back? Life coach yourself to achieve all your hopes and dreams? Whatever reason you consider life coaching yourself for, this article gives you 3 reasons why you absolutely could and 5 reasons why I don’t think anyone can. So which is fiction and which is reality in your case? Read on to find out.
Learn how to not label yourself and start new
Do you like what you’ve labelled yourself as? This edition of TBS newsletter is addressing one of the most self-limiting learned behaviours of all times: the labels we put on ourselves. Read on to understand why you resort to labels, learn how to not label yourself and start brand new (helpful) ones.
Don’t wait for motivation, create it with these simple life coach tips
This edition of TBS newsletter is giving the un-motivated the tools to find motivation again. Bottom line is... don't wait for motivation. It isn't an innate aptitude, something that some people have and some don't, you can create it. Read on to discover these simple, yet life changing, life coach tips.
Change your morning routine to win the day
This edition of TBS newsletter touches on something that I am absolutely adamant can make a massive different to your life: a consistent and clear morning routine. Do you have one? Is it working for you? What can you change it into?
Read on if your morning routine could do with a makeover to help you start the day right. Every day. (wouldn't that be nice?)
Why does my life suck? Does it though?
Do you ever feel that your life just plainly sucks? This edition of TBS is for those of you - or people you know - who keep asking themselves "why does my life suck?"
We all experience that feeling at some stage in our lives, but for some, it's felt across everything that they do, in every interaction that they have. In this newsletter, I give strategies that are designed to get you back to a healthy level of this feeling. Maybe even make it stop?! Read for more.
Living your life in a toxic relationship
Toxic relationships do not only refer to romantic relationships. They can happen between friends, family members, at work… This edition's of That’s BS newsletter tackles the serious topic of living in a toxic relationship. How to recognise if you are in one, what to do when you're deep in it, life coaching strategies to try and instill some change in the relationship's dynamic etc. Read on for more.