This is a guest post by Jonny Gibaud from thelifething.com. Jonny writes for the love of helping people, inspiring people and Katie Holmes. For articles on Life Design, Business and Sexy Money head over to his blog or check out his personal BrandBase.
Confidence Is The Winner
Confidence, more than ability, is usually what separates the winners [...]
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The Corporate Person’s Guide to Loosening Up
In my experience, there are a lot of stiff people in the corporate world. Their manner is so formal, their words are so contrived that they often give the impression of robots made on the same production line, having no people skills.
Whenever I find myself interacting with such a person, I have a somewhat hard [...]
How to Deal With Toxic People
We’ve all met them: they are the people who drain you of energy instead of enriching you, the people who pull you down instead of pushing you up, the people who require more then they can provide; the negative, wining, needy, manipulative people who can turn a happy day into a living hell.
I call them [...]
Beyond People Skills: My 3 Life Lessons
This article is written at the invitation of fellow blogger Abubakar Jamil, as part of the Life Lessons Series. You can find out more about this project and the people involved on his blog.
It’s a very enjoyable activity for me to look back at my life so far, at the experiences I had, to reflect [...]
Rich Online Social Life and No Offline Social Life?
Social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter tend to have curious effects on people and their social lives. One thing I notice is how many of those who use them tend to fall into one of two opposite categories:
The people who have a rich, active offline social life and [...]
Top 10 Lessons Learned From Coaching 100 People
I have recently reached the number of 100 coaching clients, which I have worked with individually in just under 4 years. It’s been an awesome learning and development experience, not only for my clients but also for myself. I feel like one big chapter in my career has closed and another one is opening.
Like the [...]
Why Family Pressure Is Heavy Pressure and How to Lighten the Load
Even the people I know with really good people skills are often little babies when it comes to handling family pressure on them to think, feel or act in certain ways. They may be able to easily refuse a colleague’s invitation to go bowling, but when mom asks them to visit for dinner, they just [...]
Is the Road You’re On Really Necessary?
“What do you want?” – I ask my coaching client.
“I want to advance in my field; to reach the top.” – he replies.
“Do you like what you do, in this field?”
“No, but that’s beside the point”.
I listen, I ask more questions, I try to understand him. Turns out he wants to advance in his field [...]
Happiness Really Is in the Little Things
I’m on a train going to visit my parents. Next to me, there is this old lady with an enthusiasm to envy. She’s looking out the window and saying: “Look at all the trees! They’re so green! And look at all the beautiful houses!” I look at her attentively for a moment and I realize [...]
My Big Revelation about Improving Self-Confidence
My understanding about confidence and how to improve it, especially in relation with people skills, has evolved slowly but surely most of the time. But every once in a while, I had big leaps forward, rooted in personal revelations about self-confidence.
I want to share with you a big revelation I had a couple of years [...]
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