Category Archive: Personal Development

Coaching Tools: Let Go of Your Fear of Public Speaking

Fear of not being perfect holds many coaches back from speaking and sharing their coaching skills and knowledge with people who want to and need to hear their message.
As coaches we know better than to allow this thinking to hold us back but it is so hard to see when it is your own fear [...]

Speed Reading Tactics: Avoid This Common Mistake When Learning Speed Reading

When you are starting to learn speed reading one of the common mistakes the learner makes is trying to read faster by speeding up what they already do. This approach may bring some gain, but they will be short lived. Here’s how to overcome this mistake.
The learner gives up simply because this approach is exhausting. [...]

The 9 Crucial Safety Tips You Should Share!

This is a tip from a Tae Kwon Do expert the elbow is the strongest point on your body. If you are close enough to use it do!
Learned this from a tourist guide in New Orleans. If a robber asks for your wallet and or purse do not hand it to him. Toss it away [...]

Win Friends By Asking For Directions

Sometimes it’s the simplest interactions that lead to likeability, and like many things, it’s hard to understand why until you go back to the root cause of what makes people likable. We like people who make us feel good about ourselves. Here’s a case in point.
Maui
Just yesterday I was walking along Wailea-Alanui Avenue in South [...]

Can Being in a “Funk” Sabotage Your Weight Loss Efforts?

Recently, I was chatting with a practice member who was frustrated with her weight loss efforts and disappointed in herself for being “stuck”. As an outsider, I thought she was being way too hard on herself. She has lost a significant amount of weight; she has done so in a healthy way and she looks [...]

Success Secret - Improve Your Decision-Making Skills

The level of success you achieve in life and or in business is in direct proportion to the quality and quantity of your decision-making.
Motivational Speaker Alex Mandossian summed up the whole issue of decision-making beautifully and succinctly when he said:
“Doing isn’t difficult. Deciding to do is.”
For you see nothing happens until a decision is made. [...]

Four Tips For Staying The Self Improvement Course

Once you have decided on a self improvement course, you will face moments along your journey where it seems that you are not making progress toward your goal. This is only natural.
Staying the course when the results do not seem to be coming can be challenging. But, you must not give up when you are [...]

Six Important Tips On How To Pack For A Big Move

When it comes to packing, the common consensus is that people don’t realize how much they really own until it is time to pack it all.
Here are some of our packing tips when it comes to packing for a move effectively and efficiently.
Packing Tip 1 - Start early
It is important not to leave packing until [...]

Time Management Tips - 3 Strategies For Building Successful New Habits Guaranteed to Find You Time

Finding time is all about making successful choices. So why not start by focusing on all the areas where you do successfully find time? This helps you identify what strengths you possess, and how you put those strengths to work for you.
Strategy #1: List each of your successes.
Start by filling out the following sentences. Identify [...]

Connecting With Nature is an Intelligent, Healthy Lifestyle Choice

This is a recommendation I regularly give to patients, especially if they’re feeling chronically stressed or anxious. It’s a simple step, yet so powerful. It’s getting outside and connecting with nature!
This may seem like a peculiar “health and happiness” recommendation to make! But, this was a vital component when I needed to re-create overall balance, [...]