Comparing: How To Stay In Your Own Lane
I am sure you many of you keen runners will testify that there’s’ something about when you start, everything else fades away, leaving only yourself. Thing is, even in this situation there lurks opportunity to lose focus, go inside your head thinking “…am I up to speed?… Is this the right pace?” Or comparing yourself […]
Love Yourself?
To be able to love self, we need to know ourselves. You go on dates at the very early stages of a relationship, spend time getting to know each other, think about yourself as an extended version of this with repeats! Why? You change as you grow, so it’s worth investing in getting to know […]
Are You Buying Into Black Friday?
With over £13bn predicted to be spent over this weekend, it’s worth taking a moment to focus on the process of buying. So what is going on in our heads in relation to buying? Welcome to strategies. Strategies govern everything we do and our behaviours. We have strategies for everything that we do in all […]
Happy With Your Latest Version Of Self?
Unveiling Your True Self: A Journey of Self-Discovery Do you ever find yourself feeling trapped within the confines of your own identity? It’s like there’s a whispering voice deep within, urging you to break free from the layers of societal expectations and personal experiences that have shaped who you are today. You sense that there’s […]
Positive About Personal Functionality
I love my mobile phone, how it looks and its functionality. I am so impressed the way it handles photos and clever with editing them, how I can link to my calendar, pay for things, access documents and the list goes on and on and on. In short, I am continually amazed by its potential […]
Finding A New Direction
Have you ever experienced a lack of direction, being stuck in comfortable? Where it’s all just … ok. Nothing more. Perhaps the job is comfortable, decent pay and all the rest. Where you know all the angles, for sure there is some challenge and that’s ok, its just nothing to bounce out of bed for […]
Can You Gain From A Problem?
Secondary Gain Does holding onto problems give you a gain? Perhaps even a benefit? Sounds a little strange maybe and yes it’s very possible. It’s called secondary gain I find that sometimes clients who have a ‘limpet-like’ grip on problems, the reason they hold onto it so tightly is because they are gaining something else […]
Stories and Metaphor
Time for a story I felt inspired when discovering this amazing chair in the woods at RHS Bridgewater, so I had to sit on it and test it out sharing stories. In NLP we understand the importance of metaphors (stories). We know our mind responds to symbols, we had cave drawings, hieroglyphs from Egypt and […]