Chatting about
Tips and tools
Using the Wheel of Life
If you are looking to create a sense of balance in your life the ‘go to’ tool for any coach is the Wheel of Life. The basic premise is that you use it to assess where you are at in terms of satisfaction with the most important areas of your life. Then you can see…
Setting Goals
The reason for setting goals can be summed up in this simple quote. “If you don’t know where you are going, you are likely to end up somewhere else.”Laurence J Peter – The Peter Principle In this article I’m going to concentrate on how to set out your goal, working out what goals you want…
Sleep and its Impact on Your Life
With all the reading that I’ve been doing over the last couple of years on health and wellbeing I have come to realise that sleep is probably one of the most underrated, and yet essential, elements of wellbeing. Yes there’s a reason that sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture. Many of us…
Time for Life Change?
One of the worlds top F1 drivers has just decided that it’s time for his life to change. I’ve just watched Sebastian Vettel’s resignation video. For me, it was a speech to learn from. Success measures change Despite having won four F1 World Championships, achieving goals that he could only have dreamed off once upon…
Make Your Dream Come True Day
Did you know that January 13th is Make Your Dreams Come True Day? Well it is according to a calendar I found online and that’s good enough for me! Actually as far as I’m concerned that should be the case every day but maybe that’s a little unrealistic for some. In all honesty I love…
Do Something Different, Shake Things Up
Habits can be really powerful, taking small but regular actions each day can make massive changes when carried out consistently. Sometimes though we just need to shake things up a bit and do something different. That may be because we need to make things a bit more fun and less boring, it may be that…
Prevention is Better than Cure
Take control of your own wellbeing Prevention is better than cure, is a phrase that we’ve all known about for a very long time. Never has it been a more appropriate time to take control of your own wellbeing. We have an amazing system with the NHS in the UK and what it’s best at…
Who am I?
“Who am I?” can feel like a really big and scary question to ask can’t it? Yet having a sense of self can help us to steer our way in life. I was reading about this recently in the magazine Calm and Clear. The article quotes psychotherapist Noel McDermott as saying “We can think of…
Stepping Out of Lockdown
I’ve mentioned the Comfort\Stretch\Panic zone model before and here I’m going to use it to explain how stepping out of Lockdown could effect us in different ways. This is a great tool to use and it’s going to be really useful for understanding some of the changes that we may be experiencing now. Let’s have…
Holiday at Home
My holiday at home experiment was… interesting! There must be an art to making staying at home feel like a genuine holiday. After all you are still surrounded by jobs and chores so it is difficult to switch off. If you go away you can’t even see that the bathroom floor needs cleaning, the windows…