Visualization: How To Create Your Compelling Future

Are you already familiar with this expression? Compelling Future is an NLP concept, and a very powerful one. It is used by sportsmen and politicians to help them reach their goals. And now maybe by you… In a previous Life Coaching article: ‘How To Create (& Use) A Life Coaching Wheel’, we worked on pinning down your goal. A realistic, positive and inspiring, timed, precise goal, formulated in the present tense. With your goal came outcomes or consequences (what will change for me, what will change for others once I have reached my goal). Go back to your Life Coaching … Read The Full Article …

Ummut: What would Ummut do?

Do you have an Ummut in your life? Ummut is simply a guy that I met a few times at a Table Tennis training camp. I don’t even know him very well, all I know is that he’s a very good table tennis player and a really, really nice guy. The first time I met him I was in the canteen, he came and sat near me at the table and started chatting – it was a little bizarre but also nice, he was talking to me in an extremely relaxed manner and almost as if he thought we’d met … Read The Full Article …

Taoism: That was Zen, This is Tao

What is Taoism? Is it something worth knowing more about? What is the difference between Taoism & Zen? Not so long ago I wrote an article about Zen (Zen, The Inner Child & The Perfect Cup of Tea). Before doing so I did a bit of research and read a few books to understand more about the subject. I found these fascinating which hopefully came across in the article and more importantly found that the idea of Zen practice can be applied in some of my own everyday life and activities – in particular when I want to achieve something … Read The Full Article …

Better Sales: How To Increase Sales by Offering LESS Choice

Who would have thought that offering less choice could actually increase sales? Well it does and you don’t just have to take my word for it either, I’ve got a bit of research for you and a few examples to back it up. You might also have heard me using one of my favorite quotations around here. Wow, I just had a look and I’ve cited this expression 3 times already (The Only Two Trends That Matter, 12 Kick-Ass Marketing Lessons From Al’s Tea Shoppe, How To Avoid Procrastination) – well that’s what I’m talking about here too – at … Read The Full Article …

Results: Planning vs Being ‘In The Moment’

Is a focus on results contradictory to mindfulness practice and being in the moment? Planning is an activity rather than a state of where we are mentally. Yes, we may need to project ourselves into the future during the planning process (and we definitely need to do this if we are visualising in order to do so effectively), but we are not dwelling there or letting our minds wander around in this space, we are there for a specfic and focussed process which is necessary as part of the activity of planning. We can be mindful whilst planning. Yes, you … Read The Full Article …

365 Quotes That Could Change Your Life

Sometimes the right words, the right small gesture or the right concept delivered in the right way at the right time can cause a seismic shift in your world. I love small changes which have a big impact. Quotes can do that. They are all over the internet, yes, and perhaps because they are everywhere and easily accessible we can often take for granted how profound they can be but some of the most famous quotes throughout history have been preserved and repeated for a reason. When understood and used in the right context, these little (or sometimes bigger) phrases … Read The Full Article …

The Pomodoro Technique: How a TOMATO can Change Your Life & Super-Charge Your Efficiency

Being a bit of an efficiency junkie, I’m always up for trying new things. Something I’ve done in patches in the past (without knowing there was a name for it) and something I’ve recently learned more about is called the pomodoro technique. There is even a pomodoro technique .com website, though the technique (like all my favourite models and business concepts) is such a simple idea I have neither read the wikipedia page nor done more than glance at the .com website. I give you these links as references and feel free to look at either but I can tell … Read The Full Article …

Optimism: How to be Optimistic like Rafa Nadal

Are you a glass half-empty or a glass half-full person? When challenged do you back yourself? Rafa Nadal does. I’m a great believer in mindfulness and living in the moment. I also love Cicero’s 6 mistakes of man – in my view there is so much philosophy and wisdom in those 6 simple statements which is why when I wrote that article I entitled it Cicero’s 6 mistakes of man: Self-Help: Why Cicero’s 6 Mistakes Of Man Is All You Need. All that being said, I sometimes struggle to live in the moment, like anyone my mind often drifts into … Read The Full Article …

The No/Know Model

Did I ever tell you I like simple [management] models? Well this one is about as simple as it gets. Yet I’ve found it very useful as is often the case with simple models. Maybe it’s my style of consulting but I have always found simple models which explain a key concept very well to be far more useful than models which require lots of explanation to be used effectively. A while ago I wrote this article: 100 Management Models & When to Use Them in which I promised to slowly get through all 100 Management Models, explaining each one … Read The Full Article …

The Monkey Mind: How to Silence Your Mental Chatter

Do you find you have an inner voice which sometimes gets in the way of your success or happiness or causes you fear or stress? A Zen Buddhist would call this the voice of your Monkey Mind. We all have monkey minds. In fact Buddha described the human mind as being filled with not one, but dozens of drunken monkeys chattering away and causing havoc. Fear is a particularly rowdy monkey, constantly sounding the alarm and warning us of all of the things that we should be wary of and everything that could go wrong. So it turns out all … Read The Full Article …