Category: * Coaching
Stop Saying “I’m Fine” When You’re Not
There are a couple of great untruths in this world: Ticking the box to confirm that you’ve read the Terms and Conditions, telling your kids you’ll help them find the packet of skittles that you ate a few hours ago, and replying “I’m fine” every time someone asks you how you are. This is a […]
Is ‘Happy Ever After’ Just a Hollywood Dream?
Valentine’s Day can be very special. Tempting chocolates, fragrant flowers, a delicious breakfast in bed, can all give you that wonderful inner glow that comes from knowing that you are very special to your partner. But once the comforting afterglow has faded, and ‘real life’ rudely interrupts again, sometimes it can seem as though your […]
Over 50 and forever single? Are you emasculating men?
In a recent article, Kate Mulvey bemoans the fact that as she approaches 50, she is not yet married, putting this down to the fact that men are unable to cope with a woman ‘outshining’ them. She refers to recent research confirming this, saying ‘I have lost count of the times men have rejected and […]
Revenge is Never the Answer!
The trial of Chris Huhne and ex wife Vicky Pryce For those who have not been following the trial of Chris Huhne (ex member of Parliament and Energy secretary in the UK) and his ex wife Vicky Pryce (a respected economist) over her claiming that she took his speeding points has been quite the drama […]
Divorce New Years Resolutions Busted Already? Try This
How are your new year’s resolutions going? We are 3 weeks in and by now 56% would have given up on the goals they set for themselves. Sad statistics indeed! What separates the ones who achieve their goals from those who resign and quit? This year has started completely differently for me to other years. I […]
Are you single or living alone? You’re not alone on that one!
Single life: What it really is Claudia Connell on Mail Online gives a painfully honest account of how she came to be living alone in middle-age. Now in her 40’s, Claudia talks of how her single life, once embraced and celebrated for its exciting perks, has lost its gloss. Claudia wrote in Mail online: “I […]
How Lack of Concentration Kills our Ability to Focus
How do you stay focused in an era of multiple distractions? We are living in an era of an information overload. There are vast varieties of technology everywhere we look, so much that it has become essential to one’s survival — or so it sometimes seems. An average employee receives thousands of interruptions every day, from instant […]
You Are Stronger Than You Think!
Strength in struggle As illustrated, finding your strength and realising your attributes are found through the struggles and pain in life, not when things are easy and you feel you’re at your strongest. It is through the weak moments that you learn and become stronger because of those circumstances. A bag of tea may look exactly the […]
It’s Never Too Late to Find The One
Jane Fonda on sex and intimacy The former fitness guru Jane Fonda, 74, recently revealed that she has been having the best sex of her life in the last few years. Jane — who has been married three times — said she and her partner, Richard Perry, who she first met 40 years ago, had discovered […]
You Cannot Solve a Problem with the Same Thinking that Got You There
Ever been stuck in a situation or a problem but not know how to get out of it? Life throws us lots of different hurdles and hiccups along the way. People disappoint us; we disappoint ourselves. But our biggest mistake is not that we made the mistake in the first place. Our past can determine who […]
