Take a moment to ask a person about their dreams and they’ll tell you about a fulfilling career, a great relationship, or their own island in the Pacific Ocean. Take a couple more moments, as I often do in coaching, to ask them what they’re planning to do in order to make their dreams come […]
Continue reading... September 19, 2010
Conversation Starters Project
Cool people, A few days ago, I’ve launched a niche website which I encourage you to check out. It’s called Conversation Starters and it’s about (you’ve guessed it) conversation starters (I love it when the right domain is available). This site aims to provide a quality answer to a frequent question: “How the hell do […]
Continue reading... September 13, 2010
Dealing with Envious People
Reach a high enough level of success, skill or happiness, and you find out there are a lot of little green monsters around you, many of which you used to call friends, colleagues, partners or collaborators. Since envy is a common and tricky interpersonal occurrence, I believe that dealing with envious people effectively is one […]
Continue reading... September 8, 2010
How to Meet New People and Make New Friends
I remember many years ago, a woman told me how she is often bored because she doesn’t have a lot of friends. She was living in a city with over 3.000.000 people. I was shocked. I was wondering: “How can you live surrounded by so many people and not have enough friends to spend some […]
Continue reading... September 5, 2010
When It Comes To Life Success, It’s All About Crafty Confidence – 5 Unorthodox Tips to Improve Yours
This is a guest post by Jonny Gibaud, co-founder of Emergency Food Storage. 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 […]
Continue reading... August 31, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading... August 25, 2010
Get Off the Therapy Couch! Why Exploring the Past Is Nonsense
Client: “I’ve always been lacking the confidence to speak up. In childhood, my parents were very harsh with me and would always criticize me when I opened my mouth. There was this one time when I was 9…” Me: “Aham (cough)… I don’t really need to know that. Give me an example of how this […]
Continue reading... August 20, 2010
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 […]
Continue reading... August 15, 2010
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 […]
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