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Life Coaching Articles
A Great Coach can Coach Anywhere
Think beyond the consulting room and incorporate the benefits of coaching from anywhere.
Recovery Coaching
ICF Australasia President – Kathy Tracey looks back on the year.
Unhindered
For the last ten years, the pursuit of solving the insecurity problem has become my obsession. It has entirely captured my attention and all ambition I have for my life is directed to this end.
Wellbeing Coaching
Coaching in the Time of COVID-19 or What they don’t Teach you in Coaching School
Contextual Thinkers
Are you a glass half empty or a glass half full kind of person? People who move through varying degrees of pessimism and optimism depending on the situation are known as contextual thinkers.
Cancer Coaching Australia
1 in 2 Australian men and 1 in 3 Australian women will be diagnosed with cancer by the age of 85.
Coaching Doctors
For many years I have worked as a psychologist. Often my clients have been experiencing a health crisis, so I have listened to lots of stories about health care, many of which have been distressing and disappointing.
The Power of Thought
Recently, scientists at the Institute of HeartMath in the US have been exploring the concept of how emotions affect health.
Coaching Through an ADHD Lens
If you are working as a coach, there’s a good chance that you are coaching someone with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder), whether they have been diagnosed or not. They may have been referred to you for coaching due to unsatisfactory performance in the workplace.
Your Spiritual Dictionary
They elevate our business, relationships and life to an unfathomable degree. Words literally make or break everything we set out to do. They play a huge role in how we write the stories of our lives.
Coaching Medical
A Must for Medical Career Progression
Future You
Maintain your quiddity as you step your way through life — your essence, your uniqueness. Celebrate oddity! No matter what you do in your Future You, always include social skills, emotional smarts, and grit.
The Future Possibilities of Coaching
Coaching is a way of being. It is a way to encourage, empower, engage, and even enlighten.
The Future is People-Focused
The future is something I've been speaking about, reading about and exploring over the last two years. Visions of our future, the future of our work and of humanity abound as we move through this transitional industrial chapter. More specifically what might it mean for our particular profession, coa
Coaching as a Mindset Hack
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
Being Human in the Age of AI
On being human in the age of AI and the role of coaching as a meaning-making intervention
LEAP: The Coaching Movie
38 Coaches, 4 Lives, One Transformative Year
Train Your Brain
Way back in 1989, Glenn Capelli recorded a series of cassette tapes called Train Your Brain — a guide to learning and living with a positive attitude, exploring the inner workings of your magic brain.
Personal Performance Review
Professional coaching requires a high degree of self-motivation and self-management.
Cancer Coaching
Cancer is a leading cause of death in Australia – more than 43,700 people are estimated to have died from cancer in 2011. Cancer accounted for about 3 in 10 deaths in Australia.
Coaching Values
I’ve came across and read about several game-changing coaches, as you probably have too. If you watch them closely they all possess one thing in common and this is true regardless of their reach and
Greatness from Passion
1. things in your life you LOVE to do; 2. things in your life you LIKE to do; 3. things in your life you HAVE to do; and 4. things in your life that you HATE to do!
The Coaching Word
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The Coaching Word
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Finding a Way Back
A coach? I hadn’t heard of coaching or Thomas Leonard, the man often attributed with formalising the coaching philosophy and fundamentals. A therapist? I didn’t believe in them and even if I did, I co...
Empowering Youth
The project is utilising a multi-strand of engaging techniques, ranging from Neuro (brain)games, rock climbing, Hip Hop music making, Body Wisdom, African Drum Circles, Yarning Circles, Cultural aware...
Pure Coaching for Creatives
Let’s explore that idea. If as a coach, all you are supposed to do is help the client to work things out for themselves, to me that’s a bit lame.
Active Triggers for Coaching Results
As coaches, we need to be able to pick the trigger that best suits the person and personality we are working with. You get better triggers by understanding learning modalities and connecting according...
The Coaching Word
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Chief Definite Aim
“I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental Super Star in the United States. In return, I will give exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor.
Reaching Your Destination
It could be argued that along with helping the coachee develop a clear, richly detailed goal, growing motivation to commit time and energy to sustaining progress towards that goal is the next most hel...
Destination
As coaches, it’s our job to mould and shape someone’s potential into a new reality for them. We learn to not only free them of the past but also guide them towards a better future that represents the
Coaching is for Life
The English language is a thief. It is notorious for “stealing” or “borrowing” words from other languages – upwards of 80% of English comes from elsewhere. “Algebra” derives from Arabic; “ketchup”: Ch...
Reading Your Audience
Some Get It, But Who Are They?
The Coaching Word
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Great Results from Difficult Clients
You remember that difficult one? The client who at first appeared so eager to change, making all the right sounds, and they seemed so keen to get started with you. You had high hopes and expectations
Tips for Becoming a Successful Life Coach Faster
Life coaching is about helping people to identify what really matters in their lives, based on their sense of purpose and the kinds of goals that they aspire to achieve.
Child Protection and Your Responsibilities as a Coach
On Friday 11 January 2013 the Governor-General of Australia, Her Excellency Quentin Bryce established a Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The Royal Commission was se
Visualisations That Enhance Coaching Outcomes
Visualisation is my most used and valued tool in coaching, and I have been using it for a very long time – I know its’ power and potential for changing the lives of my clients.
Too Motivated to Succeed
I am the creator of The Me Project, a business completely dedicated to helping people achieve their own personal versions of success. Yet, this fact has still not made me immune to my own epic failure
Relevance in Coaching
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The Art of Noticing
As a coach, I’m sure you’re interacting with people all the time. Though let me ask you a question, do you actually notice people? I believe that many coaches, do just that, they just coach and that’s
An Eye for Detail
How often have you started a presentation, found it going well, only to find that you’ve “unsold” the deal? All of a sudden, the other person’s eyes glazed over, they start fidgeting and their body la
Eliminating Stress in 60 Seconds
A New Generation of “Soft Science” Backs Stress Management Coaching and Mentoring
Speaking Income for Coaches
I WAS ORIGINALLY DRAWN TO THE CRAFT BECAUSE I COULD LEARN BOTH FROM A SPEAKER’S TECHNIQUE AND FROM THEIR CONTENT. OVER TIME, I LEARNT MORE ABOUT THE BUSINESS SIDE OF SPEAKING THAT COULD GENERATE SERIO
Performance, Resilience and Coaching From a Wheelchair
Who would think that a crooner in a wheelchair, singing in a park would lead to one of the most inspirational videos of the year?
Life Coaching, Gender and Living Your Bucket List
It all started as a one-man show with me as ‘The Bucket List Guy’.
Life Coaching, Fitness and Overcoming Adversity
I used to be a fairly overweight, beer-drinking, sailing, boat-building type person. One day I decided to get incredibly fit, train for a sport way above my level and push myself to extremes physicall
Wyomie Robertson on Life Coaching and Client Engagement
Life coach Wyomie Robertson shares her approach to creating deep client engagement — and why the coaches who build the most engaged clients are those who show up fully themselves.
Shannah Kennedy on Life Coaching and Genuine Engagement
I have now been coaching for 15 years but my background includes stockbroking in my early 20s. At the time, I didn’t see enough scope for women in the indust…
Life Coaching Culture: Mark Bowness on Authentic Coaching
Here I was, at the age of 26 years old, sitting in front of a computer with empty cans of beer littered around me, having googled “quickest and painless way …
Step 1: Realistic Goal
I’m personally sick and tired of seeing amazing coaches set goals that they don’t achieve. When you have other people’s lives at the receiving end of a goal,…
Confidence and Goals: A Life Coaching Guide to Meaningful Targets
Attend any Personal Development or business course these days and there is a strong likelihood you will be encouraged to set a goal. The methodology may chan…
Question 1. What do you want?
Being clear about exactly what you want and setting well formed goals around these desires is completely non-negotiable to doing well in life.
Life Coaching Goals: Moving from Intention to Lasting Action
Taking over any role is not an easy task and stepping into an established position with your own set of skills has its own challenges. However, where the est…
The Abundance Wheel: Where Should You Focus Your Energy?
Is it time for you to start getting your life on track? In over 5,000 hours of Professional Coaching and Mentoring I have discovered that one of the most sub…
The knowledge trap
You have just landed yourself a bright, shiny new client. What next?
Clarify your passion
Identify Your Niche
Nudging the Dial of Human Consciousness: The Path Ahead for Coaching?
Socrates, sometimes described as one of the earliest coaches, declared that he could not teach anybody anything; he could only make them think.
Life Coaching in a Pandemic
It happened so fast. One minute it seemed that I was gearing up for a year of speaking events (and going to great gigs!) And the next everything changed.
Relationship Coaching Through COVID
We are no longer observing the romantic interest that develops in a Hollywood blockbuster when boy meets girls during a global virus outbreak – we are living it.
Coaching Through COVID
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came tumbling down and our World changed. Journalist Thomas Friedman said that the fall of the wall marked the end of the Cold War and changed our metaphors.