Pre Flight Questions For Plans and Changes

Are you contemplating a new direction in life like replacing a bad habit with a good one or starting a business or perhaps adopting a spiritual discipline of some sort? How are you going to ensure that the change sticks? Perhaps you can learn something from the airplane production line – how exactly is changing your life like making an airplane? More ...

Five Rules For Surviving Outside Your Comfort Zone

I’m starting this post with a confession/apology to any client who I’ve glibly encouraged to step outside of their comfort zone. Three weeks ago I sat part way down a vertical sheet of ice thwacking it with my ski pole. I then broke down in frustration and tears vowing to end my 2 day old experiment with the ‘fun’ of skiing. I was way outside my comfort zone – which is, incidentally, the only place that change takes place. More ...

February Wishing Exercise: Being, Doing & Having

Wishing exercises sit at the beginning of my life coaching work with clients so that we know what we’re aiming for. These exercises are designed to get to the real wishes. Have a look through the wishing category for more free life coaching exercises. More ...

Habit Three: Stillness

The guru of stillness was exasperated with his student. The source of this exasperation was essentially that what he was teaching didn’t exist and the student was having a hard time with that. It was more about what wasn’t there than what was. The student couldn’t really handle that; ‘So. What you’re saying is that it is a bit like this? Or like that?’. ‘No, no, not like that! Or this, for that matter. Even a bit!’ He paused and finding depths of compassion and patience asked his student, ‘Are there spaces between your thoughts?’. ‘Well yes’, the student admitted. ‘Then make them bigger’. More ...

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