Are You Ready to Become a Supercoach?
My book Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone’s Life was my first attempt at articulating the three principles and their relevance to coaching and transformation. I don’t often recommend it to people anymore, as I can now see how much…
Why the World Hasn’t Really Gone Mad (and what to do about it)
I had a client once who spent the first two days of a three-day coaching intensive arguing with me about all the very real world reasons why his life was awful and was sure to get even worse…
Two Conversations to Change Your Life
One of the questions I often get now that teachings about the Three Principles have become more mainstream is “what’s the difference between teaching the principles and transformative coaching?”…
What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do
Insecurity is a beast. Not really, of course – it just feels like it can wrap you around its finger like a professional wrestler and twist your insides into a pretzel…
The Three Relationships You Must Transform to Change Your Life
One of the questions that I spend a fair bit of time contemplating is what leads to lasting change in human beings. In my old work as a traditional “success coach”, I worked with…
Some Thoughts on Turning Fifty
Last November, a group of around eight people approached me at a conference in Denmark where I was speaking to ask me my secrets for health and longevity. I was bemused, as the question had literally never come up before…
Inventing the Future, part two
In last week’s blog, I shared some observations about how we get in the way of our own creative capacity by unwittingly attempting to predict the future and then acting in accordance with our predictions. This week, I want to explore some ways…
Inventing the Future, part one
Do you have realistic goals for yourself and your life? One of my original inspirations for the Creating the Impossible program was that I saw how often people struggle…
Being Hit in the Face by the Fist of God
I’ve been speaking this weekend in Helsinki, Finland, at a conference called “Unlimited”. Alongside friends and colleagues from the world of the Three Principles, we’ve been…
Waking Up from a Dream
Regular readers of these blogs (or anyone who’s watched my TEDx talk, Why Aren’t We Awesomer?), knows that I had a somewhat mentally unstable childhood My parents managed to take it…
Live it, Own it, Mean it
It’s the final weekend of Supercoach Academy 2016, and as I prepare to say goodbye for now to the graduating class, I feel a mix of emotions. Sadness, at the thought of not getting to see these beautiful people…
Transformation, Coaching, and the Three Principles
My mother phoned me after listening to my radio show a couple of years back to ask me a question. While at first I was flattered that she had listened to the show, I was a bit taken aback…
A Hybrid Model for Success
When I first got an early-model Prius hybrid back in 2004, I spent a remarkable amount of my driving time with one eye glued to the bit of the dashboard where you could see how much of your energy expenditure was coming from the electric engine and how much…
The Kindness of Fear
I have spent most of my life afraid. Not afraid of anything in particular, though at times it certainly seemed like it. I’ve been afraid of heights and afraid of people; afraid of spiders and afraid of snakes; afraid of failure and afraid of success. But whatever it looked like…
Going Deeper
When I first began learning about the Three Principles, I threw myself into the field with my usual ‘kitchen sink’ abandon, reading every book multiple times, listening to every audio I could get my hands on, going on every course…