When life gets on top of you and you are confronted with what seems like insurmountable problems, turning your life around may seem like an impossible dream ... but kickstarting that process is far easier than you may think. The post How to Turn Your Life Around appeared first on New Insights On Life ..read more

2024 is turning out to be a year for the people … at least as far as elections go. Nearly 50% of the world’s population – more people than ever before – have voted, or will be voting, in over 60 countries around the world. There are signs all over that people are tired of the status quo. They want change and are voting for it. Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! Unprecedented era My adopted country, South Africa, enters an unpredented era with the formation of a government of national unity after thirty years of government dominated by a single part ..read more

Let me start by apologising to loyal readers for the three-week hiatus in posting. The reason will become clear as you read on. Four years ago, Jenni and I decided to put our money where our coaching mouths are and embark on fulfilling a dream we’d had for many years. Everything is a dream until you decide to make it real! Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! Right smack in the middle of the dreaded COVID pandemic – and against the advice of anyone who cared to offer it – we took the plunge and signed a lease agreement for an investment in a small ..read more

A fascinating concept that we refer to a lot in the New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme, is that of the ‘internal map’. Let’s unpack this a bit. We all know and understand the purpose of a map (although much to this baby boomer’s disappointment, mapreading is fast becoming a dying skill with the advent of technology that does everything for you!) Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! Simply put, a map can be thought of as a scaled down representation of a specific location or piece of geography. It’s a visual aid meant to hel ..read more

The New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme includes seven theory modules, the last of which aims to provide trainee life coaches with guidance on how to pursue excellence in their coaching practices. In this regard, one of the techniques that we promote, is what we call ‘The Edge’. That’s a strange term, I know – I’ll get to why we call it that shortly – but it is a technique – one could even say an approach – that every life coach, who aspires to be the best they can be, must get to know, understand and feel comfortable to apply. Click to go to the podcast. Please ..read more

As is so often the case, my inspiration for today’s post comes from another source, in this case one of the greats in the field of human motivation and self development, Dr Wayne Dyer. Dyer, like most of his peers, teaches that our purpose in life is to serve others, a view that resonates strongly with the practice of life coaching, a field in which I’ve been intimately involved for nearly 17 years now. Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! In one of his writings, to do with the concept of life purpose, Dyer describes four generic stages of life that ..read more

With 17 years in the life coaching industry, I can, hand on heart, say that the vast majority of life coaches I’ve had the privilege to connect with are wonderful, salt-of-the-earth types. Of course, as in any industry, you’ll find a small proportion of practitioners who are in it for misplaced or questionable reasons. In my previous post, I explained that the growth of quick-and-easy ‘certification courses’ – high on marketing hype but low on substance – is attracting people who lack the commitment to hard work that ensures the level of excellence rightly expected in this field. Click t ..read more

The final step in completing the New Insights certification process to become a life coach involves a self-reflection exercise. One of the questions our aspirant coaches are asked to reflect on is how their perception of what life coaching is, and what life coaches do, has changed since starting out on the training programme. Most admit that life coaching is significantly different – and far more in-depth – than they had originally understood it to be. Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! Not hard to imagine Of course, these are people who started ou ..read more

Could it be that we are living in the most stressful time in human history? Anecdotal evidence of worrying levels of stress in our society is not hard to come by. Scratch beneath the thin veneer of contentment that many people do their best to present to the world, and typical symptoms of stress quickly become evident. Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! Although young adults seem worst affected, stress is widespread in people from all generations and walks of life these days. Wishful thinking In the 1970s it was widely predicted that, within forty ..read more

As you contemplate the end days of the first month of yet another new year, what is it that occupies your mind (other than what it feels like getting back into your post-holiday routine)? If you are like most, you may be wondering whether 2024 will bring more of the ‘same old, same old’, or perhaps herald a much desired change in your life. Click to go to the podcast. Please return to this page to leave comments! Who is in control? Of course, as good life coaches, we would argue that this is within your control and then ask what goals you have set to bring about the kind of change you w ..read more