Category Archives: Personal development
Life coaching retreats
Why a life coaching retreat?
A retreat is a great way to find answers to life’s difficulties. We may need time and space for restoration. Or have a tricky problem to think about. Or need to find new wisdom to move forward. All these and more are the benefits of life coaching – and also of retreats. So why not combine the two? A residential retreat gives time and space to allow your answers to emerge and balance to return. Life coaching assists in framing your questions, giving your answers clarity and restoring balance. One delegate said on her feedback form “thankyou for giving me life again”. You can read Read More...
A new view on SMART goals!
Are your goals like your New Year’s resolutions?
How often do we hear people joke about setting – and then “breaking” – New Year’s resolutions? The sooner we break them the funnier it seems. Perhaps we weren’t being realistic. We may have intended our resolutions to achieve something. Or we may have dreamt of a life we feel deep down we are never going to realise. When we have experienced a few broken resolutions, we stop believing in the value of goals. We stop choosing to succeed and believing in ourselves.
There’s only one thing we choose in life
Life has just three Read More...
Why bother with a STRATEGY?
Life without a STRATEGY
Stressed out running your business or organisation? Recognising you don’t have enough time for other things in life, like family? Or just feeling out of control? Maybe you’ve never stopped to think about the direction you want to go in. Or never believed you had any choice.
Having a strategy sounds like being tied down to a plan. As Eisenhower may have said, “No plan survives first contact with the enemy.” So we convince ourselves there is no good purpose in wasting time writing a strategic plan.
Eisenhower again: “Planning is everything, plans are nothing.” Now this I Read More...