New Insights On Life

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Official Blog & Associated Podcasts

Welcome to New Insights On Life!

New Insights On Life is the official blog for New Insights Life Coach Training, international specialists in life coaching, life coach training and personal development.
We are truly proud to welcome you here!

Our intention with this blog – and related podcasts – is to offer thought provoking articles to stimulate discussion on a variety of personal development related topics. Many are derived from life coaching and the life coach training we provide.

We hope to motivate and inspire you to live the life you love.

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5 Common Mistakes Life Coaches Make

Most people who get into life coaching are driven to do so by an authentic passion for people and a genuine desire to be involved in fulfilling and rewarding work that helps inspire a better world.

But even among those with the best intentions and backed by professional training, there are still some who struggle to make an impact.

This post looks at 5 common mistakes that life coaches make.

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Life Coaching: Widely Misunderstood and Often Underestimated

What’s in a name?

When it comes to life coaching, everything … and nothing really. 

On the face of it, the term “life coaching” would seem to say it all but think about it more deeply and you’ll appreciate that one’s interpretation of what it means is wide open to misunderstanding. 

And that, in turn, has resulted in a proliferation of superficial courses that claim to turn people into certified life coaches in a matter of weeks – doing little to help promote its value and importance among sceptics.

Nevertheless, life coaching when practised by properly trained and equipped professionals is nothing short of life-transforming in its effect. The ‘real thing’ deserves to be celebrated and given the publicity it deserves for helping change our world for the better.

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8 Ways to Deal with Stress

Levels of chronic stress are unprecedented in today’s world. Ironically, technological advancements that promised to give us more time for leisure and enjoyment are at the root of this problem.

In this post, Bill suggests eight ways in which stress can be dealt with.

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Celebrate Your Significance

We live in an unpredictable and uncertain world. As we witness the magnitude of the events unfolding around us it is all too easy to take on feelings of powerlessness. Such feelings can cause us to start doubting our own significance, or relevance in the world.

And yet, we each have an important role in the growth and evolution of the planet and the universe. Each one of us is leaving an indelible mark on the course that that evolution takes.

In this podcast episode, Bill encourages listeners to recognise this and celebrate their undoubted significance!

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Towards More Effective Communication: The 20-Second Rule

In the New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme, we devote an entire module to the topic of communication. Deservedly so, I might add. That’s because the way we communicate has a fundamental impact on our ability to live more meaningful and fulfilling lives. It’s worth letting that statement

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8 Key Assumptions That Underpin Effective Life Coaching

In the early stages of the New Insights Life Coach Training and Certification Programme we cover the key assumptions that we believe form part of the philosophy on which this transformational discipline is based. In the training, we list seventeen life coaching assumptions that we present for aspirant coaches to

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Make Your Passion Work for You

A global Gallup poll conducted pre COVID revealed that, among the more than one billion full-time workers, only 15% felt they were properly engaged in their work. In an article titled ‘The World’s Broken Workplace’, Jim Clifton, the Chairman of Gallup, put this staggering statistic down to outdated management practices

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7 Key Life Insights

I love being in the people industry. Working with life coaches, trainee life coaches, and members of the public with an interest in self-development, ensures that I am constantly learning about people. And it’s people that make the world go around! Some time ago a teacher, and avid reader of

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Never Let Fear of Failure Hold You Back

We all know the old idiom: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!” But many of us never get to embrace this sage advice because we are too fearful of failing. ‘Success’ is overhyped as the ultimate goal that we humans are expected to pursue in life. We

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Why become a life coach?

5 Compelling Reasons to Become a Life Coach

If you love working with people, have a thoroughly ethical disposition, and share a passion for – and open mind about – personal development, don’t overlook life coaching as a fantastic, potential new full– or part-time career. Life coaching is one of the fastest growing industries in the world at

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20 Years in Business Promoting Freedom, Confidence & Growth

As loyal readers will know, and as the name implies, the purpose of this Blog is to offer insights into personal development and self improvement within the overall context of life coaching. Whereas we take great delight when it provides the motivation for readers to enrol in our life coach

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Life Coaching and Misperceptions Explained

Ask any life coach what they do and the chances are high that the word change will crop up in the description they choose to share. At New Insights we like to think of life coaches as agents for change. Helping people bring about the changes that they desire in

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Why Investing in Life Coach Training is a Smart Move

Life coaching is one of the most fulfilling professions around. As a life coach you get involved in helping your clients achieve their goals and dreams and, more generally, improve their self awareness and overall quality of life. What could be more relevant or important in this very challenging world

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