by Colin | Feb 17, 2017 | Effectiveness, Habits, Happiness, Health, Productivity, Thinking Skills, Uncategorized, Wellbeing
No, not with all his muscles and fame… read on. Mindfulness is all the rage this year. Ironic really, since it’s been quietly there, appreciated by its adherents for as long as people have tried to still their constant mind chatter. As long as people have been...
by Colin | Jul 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.” ~Stephen R. Covey Years ago when I was training to be a ‘Don’ in my university residence, we were introduced to a concept called...
by Colin | May 25, 2016 | Uncategorized
“You get a coach if you’ve looked at your life or business or sport etc. and said: “I want more out of this, but I think I need some help to do it…”” Let’s start this off with a caveat, no-one ‘needs’ a life-coach. Let’s be honest, you’re not going to die,...
by Colin | May 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
“The babble of the brook melded in and out of the rustling leaves creating such a calm and refreshing space, it was just fantastic.” Yesterday, I took my daughter for a walk in a local woodland. She is 17 months old and it was kind of a treat since...
by Colin | Feb 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
There’s an interesting ‘law’ of time management that says something we all probably intuitively understand: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion.” ~Parkinson’s law. A bit formal, but basically, work is like a fluid and will fill whatever...
by Colin | Dec 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Recently, in my feedback from an observed coaching session, my observer coach noticed that my client didn’t appear to be thinking from the future and looking back. Their language was future tense, with lots of ‘…will be’ and talking about now being different to...