The Two Ingredients for Creating Significant Results in the World
As a coach, I spend a fair bit of time looking at the differences that make the difference between the great and the good, the impactful and the impressive, and between what reliably works for everyone and what occasionally seems to work but…
Love and Productivity, part two
During one of the early sessions in our Falling in Love With Your Business program, one of the participants talked about how much they hated marketing. My co-teacher, Dr. George Pransky, responded by saying…
Love and Productivity, part one
At the heart of our “Falling in Love with Your Business” program is an exploration of the impact of loving what you do on productivity. While it’s not a particularly contentious statement to say that people who love what they do are more productive, the deeper question is “why”?….
Obstacle or Excuse?
Over the past year or so, I’ve been revisiting my book Supercoach: 10 Secrets to Transform Anyone’s Life, and gently rewriting it to take into account my evolving understanding of how life and the mind actually work…
What Makes Great Coaching Great?
I spent the past couple of days in New Mexico with seven extraordinary coaches from a number of different coaching schools, most with over 20,000 coaching hours logged and with clients ranging from Google to Nasa…
The Point of the Three Principles
In 2007, I stumbled across a description of the spiritual nature of life articulated by an enlightened Scottish welder named Syd Banks. He talked about life in terms of three principles – irreducible elements out of which everything in life is created….
The Four Purposes of Working with Groups, part two
This week, I’d like to take some time to focus on the “fourth purpose”, and in order to do that I’d like to clarify the distinction between traditional self-development and personal transformation…
The Four Purposes of Working with Groups, part one
I co-led my first group workshop on the 1st of October, 1990 in a small room above the Camden College of English in London. It was called “The Key to Power”…
Why the Three Principles Can’t Change Your Life (and what can)
People hire coaches for one simple reason – they want to get more out of themselves and their lives than they seem to be getting on their own.
For example, why are you reading this? Chances are that you’re looking for something to help you change your life for the better…
Trigger Warnings
Warning: This blog post contains ideas and covers topics that some people may find distressing. Worse still, that’s kind of the point…
Why Not Enjoy Life?
This week’s blog is a fairly recent posting from another emerging voice, Brooke Bishop. Warning – contains adult language.
If permission is what you need, then you can have it Just now I hopped into the shower and thoroughly enjoyed the overwhelming feeling….
Intuitive Inspiration
Excerpted with permission from The He’Art of Thriving: Musings on the Human Experience by Kimberley Hare. Einstein, who was a pretty smart bloke, once said: “The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. But we have created a society that honours the servant, and has forgotten the gift.”
The Pacts of Life
This week’s blog is from Supercoach Academy graduate Clare Dimond | Seduce, persuade, condition, influence, convert, win over, entice, brainwash, force, intimidate, bully, goad, incite, indoctrinate, encourage, disappoint, motivate, tempt, enrage…
The Silence Beyond Thought
This week’s blog is excerpted with permission from One Thought Changes Everything by Mara Gleason, ©2017.
When I was 20 years old and a junior in college, I decided to do a semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was 2003, and Argentina was emerging from a horrible economic crash and a period of great instability. My parents urged me to pick another place to study abroad…
A Guide to “Getting It”
Have you ever been on a program about the Three Principles or exploring some other spiritual path and wondered why it is that everyone but you seems to be “getting it”?