personal

Help! My Sat Nav is set to “Avoid Fun”

March 30, 2011

I believe that a Sat Nav is a fabulous metaphor for Vision both personal and professional. Yesterday I realized that I have spend the past 15 years with my SatNav set to avoid fun. In this month’s Wired magazine the letter from the Publisher, Rupert Turnbull, invites readers to send him a single paragraph detailing [...]

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What is the biggest goal you have set this year?

March 31, 2010

I have just set my self a HUGE new goal.
Read my latest blog post to find out more…

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Let me do and I understand

May 23, 2009

Today I was asked what my favourite quote or saying is and I found myself scratching my head. If you had asked me this question a year ago then I would have been quick to respond that I didn’t hold much stock by quotes, but on my coaching learning journey there have been some quotes that [...]

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The miracle of personal development

February 20, 2009

Jin Rohn sums up the importance of personal development beautifully in his e-zine this week. We take a look at three quotes that particularly resonate for us.

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Come to me with solutions instead of problems

November 21, 2008

Incorporating coaching into my management style is having benefits to me, my team and the business as a whole. I am still working to move away from my natural telling/’fix it’ mode towards active listening and questioning, but I am already seeing some amazing results in both individuals and in the team dynamics. Self sufficiency: [...]

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Giving generously

November 1, 2008

This week Jim Rohn is commending the benefits of giving your own time generously in his e-zine. His thinking fits in well with my post “An idea shared is an opportunity multiplied”. Click here to read John Rohn’s latest e-zine

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BlueKiteCoach is now (un)limited!!!

November 1, 2008

On Tuesday 28th October 2008, BlueKiteCoach Limited was officially registered with Companies House. On Thursday 30th October 2008, BlueKiteCoach Limited received it’s first piece of junk business mail!

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Just look at what you might be losing out from if you don't write down your goals…

October 19, 2008

I think the text below speaks for itself. So, all I will say is that I am now off to collate my BIG goals and stick them back on my bathroom mirror. The following article is taken from Jim Rohn’s weekly e-zine. Click here for the full e-zine “The Modern Day (Real Life) Indiana Jones by Vic [...]

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Why do businesses succeed or fail? HINT: It’s not just sales.

October 18, 2008

From the first paragraph of Jeffrey Gitomer’s latest e-zine, I was hooked. “Everyone has heard the phrase ‘The American Dream.’ I look at it as ‘The American Reality.’ When you’re in business for yourself you write your own history, you write your own success story, you write your own legacy, and most important you write [...]

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I think I’ll try defying gravity

October 15, 2008

Defying Gravity, from the hit musical Wicked, has become ‘my song’ in recent months and regularly provides me just the right amount of motivation and confidence I need to get me doing those things for my business that are hard, routine or that, at the outset, appear risky.    The following lines in particular resonate [...]

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