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Yearly Archives: 2008
If You Think You Can or Think You Can’t, You Are Right – The Story of Marina
"And I thought all that time I was crazy and imagining things", Marina said when she first came to see me. "I have been taking anti-depressants for 21 years, but now I want to stop. Will you help me?" she asked.
During coaching, Marina gradually stopped her medication with the help of her wonderful doctor. She goes out and is has entered a happy new relationship. She has improved her relationships with her kids and is communicating amazingly well with Peter. She has been promoted at work and is considering publishing her story "to help others believe they can".
Posted in Relationships | Tagged depression, Emotional Intelligence, happiness, happy, inspiration, life coaching, personal development, Personal Growth, relationships, self improvement, success, suicide, wellbeing | Leave a comment
I’m OK, You’re OK!
A very common human expression is "I wish I could go back in time and change something.Then my life would be different. I wish I could have a second chance". Let's explore this a bit, shall we?
Posted in Personal Growth | Tagged acceptance, beliefs, change, Emotional Intelligence, failure, fear, focus, happiness, happy, Learning, love, relationships, self confidence, self esteem, self worth, success | 3 Comments
Make This World a Better Place
It's looking around the world, at what is happening with starving people and violence, which makes me feel small and helpless sometimes. I can remember thinking about it ever since I was 15 years old, like Atlas, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. I wrote poetry, listened to Joan Baez and wrote John Lennon's words of "Imagine" on my notebooks.
Posted in Global Village, Personal Growth | Tagged beliefs, change, education, Emotional Intelligence, focus, goals, happiness, happy, how to, personal development, Personal Growth, purpose, self improvement, values | Leave a comment
Avoid penalties
Motivation, as you may know, has two sides: pain and pleasure. Unfortunately, pain is a stronger motivator. At the same time, being inundated by threats creates an atmosphere of fear and stress. Who wants to live like this? One day, I was standing at the post office, waiting to be served, and in front of [...]
Posted in Global Village, Living & Life Style | Tagged empowerment, fear, focus, government, lifestyle, motivation, pain and pleasure | Leave a comment
Charity vs. Life Coaching
I have a feeling this post will get some responses, so by all means, if you have something to say, post a comment below. As a life coach, my role is to empower people. From my point of view, every person has all the power in the world to achieve great and wonderful things, but [...]
Posted in Global Village, Personal Growth | Tagged charity, global community, identity, life coaching, success | Leave a comment
Is your computer (or your TV) controlling your life?
Some time ago, I attended a seminar, which wasn't supposed to be about personal growth (it was meant to be rather technical), but ended up having more personal growth content than anything else. Unlike others in the room, I was pretty happy about it.
Posted in Living & Life Style, Personal Growth | Tagged choice, financial success, focus, lifestyle, personal development, Personal Growth, priorities | 1 Comment
Get a life coach
In recent years, there is a booming industry of self-proclaimed personal growth gurus, who claim to be able to unparalleled impart wisdom on the masses without leaving the comfort of their home, through the Internet or the telephone or maybe from the stage. To a certain extent, this works, because many more people get information [...]
Posted in Learning, Personal Growth | Tagged life coaching, personal development, Personal Growth, success | 3 Comments
What do you think of yourself?
The thing with beliefs is that we make decisions based on them. So you might expect people to confirm their beliefs and validate them before using them to decide what to do, especially in matters of importance. Well, as scary as this may seem, they don't. Oh, and neither do you.
Posted in Personal Growth | Tagged beliefs, decisions, life coaching, perception, personal development, Personal Growth | Leave a comment
Leap of Faith – How to Become Great
Our modern culture is full of “get <something> quick” books, seminars, presentations, advertising and so on – get rich quick, get personal growth quick, get instant cash, get instant hair growth – we’ve all seen them everywhere. In many of them, the source presents the argument “If I can do it, so can you!”Moreover, the [...]
Posted in Personal Growth | Tagged failure, financial success, focus, lifestyle, Personal Growth, priorities, success, wealth | 3 Comments
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – The Story of Chris