The way we talk and think about ourselves can have a very powerful effect on our mental and emotional state. This can be good or bad but for many people the way they talk to and about themselves internally is bad.

Psychologists term this negative self-talk, cognitive distortions and it is both very unhelpful and harmful. This type of mental bad habit can take us to places we really don’t want to go to. Therefore you have to ask yourself why do you do it?

Life Coaching sessions are often about goal setting, helping the client achieve something that they want or need, whether that may be a new career, weight loss, giving up smoking, dealing with anxiety, or creating a better work/life balance.

Do you sometimes get the feeling that you have so much going on in life that it is too much to handle? It’s like you have too many tabs open at once on a computer, they are all ones that you are using but none of them are getting enough attention, so nothing really is getting accomplished.

We all race through life wanting the perfect job, home, partner, family, and social life. In order to achieve all these wishes though, we put a huge amount of strain on our mental and physical well-being. But how many of us have ever wondered if it is all just smoke and mirrors, if this perfect life that we are all seeking is just a mirage and that we don’t need to be chasing after the perfect life because what we all have is pretty good anyway.

Each relationship you have will be unique and varied. A romantic relationship with a partner, children, parents, friends, work colleagues, each one is different and will require different things from you. The one thing that they each have in common is that you want them all to be healthy and fulfilling.

One of the most important aspects of Life Coaching, or indeed any coaching. is instructing clients on challenging their brain when it is giving them misplaced information. This is often very obvious in Goal Setting and when someone is trying to achieve something that is outside of their comfort zone.

A lot of people seem to believe that to achieve things in life, you have to be in the right place at the right time. Although this will be the case for certain circumstances, creating opportunities is always going to be the best way for getting the most out of life. Instead of looking at other people who seem to have it all and assuming that their lives are perfect and things just land at their feet, a fairer way is to think that they have searched for opportunities and have used them. This outlook is the best one to have because it demonstrates that anybody can achieve what they want if they create their own opportunities.

We have all had that feeling at some point or other in our lives…..a feeling of worry, fear, nerves, apprehension. It's a normal human experience and part of who we are and where we have evolved from. Anxiety... it’s something that everyone will experience at some point in their lives, irrespective of who they are and what they do, it can strike anyone regardless of sex, age, or background.

“Where do you want to be in ten years’ time?” or “How do you see your life in ten years’ time?” I am sure at some time or other most people have been asked a variation of these questions. Maybe in a job interview, a relative quizzing you on where your life is going, a date with someone who is getting to know you. The situations may all be different but the meaning to the question is always going to be the same…..have you thought about where your life is heading and what it is going to look like in ten years’ time?

Do you find that you don’t have enough time in the day? Are you always behind on work tasks? Do you often feel overwhelmed by responsibilities and find that you have too much to do and everything seems to overrun so tasks are never completed successfully? If this is the case you will probably benefit from time management tips so that you can manage your time more effectively.

For anybody embarking on a weight loss journey, there is so much information to wade through that you can be put off before you even begin. From celebrities’ telling you how they lost weight to books, blogs, magazines, the over-saturation can leave you feeling lost and confused.

All that we have in life is the present moment but it is a concept that very few people truly understand or experience in today’s busy world. We are so focused on racing from one thing to the next, that we never really stop to appreciate the time that we are living in right now. We seem to vacillate so much between past and present, life was better in the past, everything will happen in the future that we lose complete sight of living in the now, the present moment in time. For many people, this leaves them feeling dissatisfied with life and always craving something else.

Say the word Menopause and for many women, it strikes fear and dread into them. Once referred to as “The Change”, words that were laden with doom and gloom, this time in a woman’s life is rarely discussed and information about passing through this stage is sometimes hard to access. Many go through the whole experience and aren’t told anything about what to expect either before, during, or after.