Category Archives: Personal Development

THE FAILURE CYCLE – WHAT IS IT? AND A SUCCESS CYCLE!

The failure cycle usually begins with enthusiasm, we get excited about a new project. Then your enthusiasm and motivation may seem to fizz. Reasons for this can be: That you have chosen the wrong goal for yourself. You lack direction – in other words your goal is not clear enough (or it’s not your goal!). […]

Preventing problems, especially personal!

For a good half of my professional life I was in preventative medicine as a community health nurse, educating people about their health and teaching them how to live in a healthy way and to avoid ill-health. But a preventative model can also be applied to psychological and emotional problems as we all seem very […]

You must be committed to leaving the problem behind or you are committed to keeping it!

You must be committed to leaving the problem behind or you are committed to keeping it! These are concepts that come up in coaching. When clients say they’ll “try” to do something it gives them a subtle opportunity to opt out. Commitment on the other hand means that they are firmly committed to doing whatever, […]