Posted 2275 Days Ago in: Bev James, Personal Success
Imagine you wake up tomorrow morning and something feels different. You feel alert, energised and your mind is sharp and focused. You feel you can achieve anything you set your heart on.
Posted 2317 Days Ago in: Personal Success, Coaching Articles
Sallee is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experiences to benefit, develop and 'evolve' others. A Business Advisor, Troubleshooter and Mentor.
Posted 2520 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success
Get yourself in the successful mind-set by thinking about the winning sequence: BE! DO! HAVE!
Posted 2555 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success
There is no fun in thinking small; that doesn't get the juices flowing and that certainly won't get you moving forward at an accelerated rate. The best goals are those that really fire you up so ask yourself - are my goals exciting enough?
Posted 2646 Days Ago in: Coaching Academy Info, Coaching Articles, Personal Success
No matter what is happening in your life, good or not so good; you have the power to turn that around and learn how to succeed.
Posted 2653 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Life Coaching Articles
Everyone has it in them to develop themselves and reach their full potential. We all have the ability to do a little more each day than we think we can possibly do.
Posted 2660 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success
Ask yourself the question - How is my thinking helping me? We all have reoccurring thought processes and beliefs and the more aware you are of them, the more likely you'll be able to switch the negatives into positives. Is your current thinking actually beneficial to your life?
Posted 2716 Days Ago in: Approvals & Endorsements, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
Self-management of your emotional state is the act of taking responsibility for your emotions. It is a fact that your emotions can affect your decision making process and behaviour. Therefore the ability to be more aware of your emotions and actually taking responsibility for controlling them can help you to be more effective, productive and successful in keeping your goals in sight.
Posted 2751 Days Ago in: Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
Everyone has the skills to develop themselves so they are able to reach their full potential. Whether that be with work, family, fitness or relationships, there are certain qualities, mind-sets and behaviours that will massively help you with maximising your self-development.
Posted 2758 Days Ago in: Personal Success, Tips
Being able to get more done means you are ahead of yourself and probably have more time to retain that elusive work / life balance. Would you like to do more in less time? We suspect most people will answer with a resounding yes. If this is you then read on for our top tips on how to be more productive.
Posted 2772 Days Ago in: Personal Success, Tips
Assertiveness is a behaviour that can be learned and developed. It's a communication process that is a key quality for productive relationships. It can help you move you away from feeling passive to feeling more active and listened to on more occasions. It usually involves stepping outside of your comfort zone if you are not naturally assertive but in doing so, working on being more assertive can certainly help improve your confidence and self esteem.
Posted 2807 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
We all know people who are confident. They seem to face challenges head on and with a level of calm. Confidence is not something we are born with, it is shaped by experiences from childhood to adulthood. No one can build your confidence for you but the good news is that it is a constantly evolving state of being that you can build up over time.
Posted 2354 Days Ago in: Bev James, Coaching Articles, Personal Success
Where do you want to be in 12 months' time? Living a fulfilled life or just another year older saying to yourself - "where did that year go? What have I achieved?" To achieve the upgraded version of you, you need to make some adjustments. You can't just flick a switch and expect to have changed overnight.
Posted 2842 Days Ago in: Coaching Academy News, Personal Success
Launched just 2 weeks ago, The Personal Success Academy has had an overwhelming number of people enrol for membership. The very first person to enrol was Isabel Harward and she has been rewarded for being an action orientated individual by Bev James. Thank you Isabel!
Posted 2854 Days Ago in: Coaching Academy News, Continuous Professional Development, CPD for Coaches, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
So here's an exclusive announcement especially for you, our PS Online subscribers!
Posted 2863 Days Ago in: Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
Bravery isn't only for people we think of as heroes. It's also needed for everyday life, for those times when we stretch to express a strength and a courage we didn't know we had. It's a resource we draw on whenever we stand up to stop an injustice, deal with a crisis or take action to better our lives.
Posted 2154 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
The ability to set goals makes an enormous contribution to the success of an individual. Most successful people are goal-orientated. They take time to identify what it is that they want and they build up a really clear and detailed picture of what achieving the goal will look and feel like. They then take regular action to move towards their goal. Sounds simple enough right?
Posted 2898 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success
Often "being successful" can appear to be a double-edged sword. On one side, you crave success and you put a tremendous amount of effort into achieving success. On the other side there is the hidden inner fear which is being afraid of hitting success big time.
Posted 2912 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success
Ever feel like your life is running you instead of the other way round? The pressures of work can become quite a demand when you are trying to juggle career alongside family, friends, social life and general well-being. There is no magic solution to achieving a better work / life balance, like most processes that will have a positive impact in your life, it is something to be practiced but here are some top tips that should help you along the way.
Posted 2224 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success, Tips
Our needs include: winning, pride, ego, curiosity, personal power, love, recognition, creativity, success, self-esteem, accomplishment, peer approval, emotional security, belonging, and freedom. Just the knowledge of those needs can help us to identify our own drivers or motivation.
Posted 2968 Days Ago in: Coach Spotlight, In The Spotlight, Personal Success
I qualified with the Coaching Academy in 2011 (Personal Performance Coaching Diploma). I would like to share my journey to encourage you to continue in your own journey and to demonstrate that starting the course is only the beginning.
Posted 2975 Days Ago in: Bev James, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success
For many people January is a time for reflection. Another year has passed: we have lived for 365 days since we last made a resolution – but what exactly have we done with the time we’ve been given? On New Year’s Eve did you find yourself saying, “Gosh – where did that year go?
Posted 3038 Days Ago in: Coach Spotlight, In The Spotlight, Personal Success
I booked onto the free 2-day course at the end of February and went along to day 1 slightly uncertain of what I was going to encounter, but very definite in the knowledge that I wanted to learn as much as possible about myself and others. I’m pleased to say that I enjoyed it immensely and found it an inspiring 2 days, and knew I wanted to pursue coaching.
Posted 2312 Days Ago in: Personal Performance Coaching, Personal Success
The GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) model is the most common and widely used coaching tool. It empowers the coach to structure a coaching conversation and deliver a meaningful result. The GROW acronym suggests that a coach using the GROW model is likely to start by asking the client to set goals, both for what they want to get out of the coaching sessions as a whole and for each individual session.
Posted 3044 Days Ago in: In The Spotlight, Personal Success, Tips
I love learning and I was ready for a new challenge so I read the brochure from The Coaching Academy and came along to a one day event – and I was hooked!
Posted 3066 Days Ago in: Coach Plus Articles, Coaching Academy News, Coaching Articles, CPD for Coaches, Personal Success
If you’re subscribed to our weekly email – Personal Success Online, then you’re likely to be well aware of the exciting world of coaching. Wherever you are in your coaching journey, it’s always a good idea to revisit the fundamentals of coaching.
Posted 3101 Days Ago in: Coaching Articles, Personal Success
It is important to recognise, clarify and understand your core values. Values can easily be overlooked. They can be elusive, because much of the time they operate ‘in the background’, out of conscious awareness. Once values have been revealed, they can be used to guide actions and behaviours.
Posted 3129 Days Ago in: Coach Spotlight, In The Spotlight, Life Coaching Articles, Personal Success
I went along to the 2 day Coaching Academy course as I had been offered voluntary redundancy and hoped the course would help me in my personal decision making. In the event it did much more than that. I saw that here was an opportunity to develop my coaching skills and turn my passion into a new career.
Posted 3136 Days Ago in: Coach Spotlight, In The Spotlight, Personal Success
Posted 3142 Days Ago in: Coach Spotlight, In The Spotlight, Personal Success
For once I followed my heart. Initially this meant relocating from South Africa to England to set up home with my soon to be husband. However the experience of building a very new and different life, at a time when most people are comfortably settled into a rhythm of life heading towards retirement, soon became a journey that changed more than my marital status. My South African career had been tough but rewarding.
Posted 3150 Days Ago in: Coach Spotlight, In The Spotlight, Personal Success
I discovered executive and personal coaching as a profession quite by accident. I worked in an investment company in London - in the grey zone with no room for professional development, and felt ready to experience a change. Someone left a Protégé Programme Leaflet in a block of apartments where I lived.