Bright Life

Communication Skills Tip to Motivate Yourself and Others

This tip is a simple NLP (neuro linguistic programming) technique that you can use to:

• put yourself and other people in a positive frame of mind
• change the way you and others respond to information
• motivate yourself and others
• gain a new way of looking at things

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3 Easy Decision Making Techniques

Got a situation that you aren’t sure how to handle? Need to make an important decision? Confused by something or someone? Mentally going around in circles? This post is for you!

Traditional approaches to problem solving such as worrying, debating, discussing, and evaluating can be exhausting.  All of these thought processes use the conscious mind – the part of the brain that we’re aware of, that chatters to us all day long.
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Communication Tip: Look to Listen Rule

Today’s communication tip will save you endless heartache in dealing with people and builds on my last communication tip about communication preferences.  It’s about an unspoken ‘rule’ that many people operate when they communicate.  If you have this rule, you’ll be hurt or offended when other people don’t obey it.  And if you don’t have this rule – guess what? You are unintentionally offending people or hurting their feelings, and you don’t even know it.

This short video explains the ‘Look to Listen Rule’.  You’ll learn:

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How to Measure Success – It’s EASY!

What does success mean to you? I’m interested in leadership, and to me, success has everything to do with leadership – of yourself and others – and self expression.  Authentic success is often described as success that feels ‘real’ – meaningful, purposeful success that supports and expands how we see ourselves and others.

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Communication Skills: What’s Your Learning Style?

Did you know that we all have preferences for how we like to receive information?  By understanding your own and other people’s preferences, you’ll be able to:

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Achieve A Balanced Working Life Part 3

What stops you enjoying more balance in your life? I’m choosing the word ‘enjoying’ deliberately, because so many people seem to find the pursuit of balance to be a struggle.

Many of my corporate coaching clients report difficulty in creating and sustaining a good balance between their professional life and their personal life.  This tension between work and home is often given the name ‘work/life balance’.  I detest this expression because it implies that somehow work is separate from the rest of life.  The reality is that our lives are like casseroles, and work is one of the major ingredients.

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Achieve A Balanced Working Life Part 2

In this series of posts we’ve been exploring the idea of balance: its dynamic nature, the way guilt can block us following our instinct towards balance, and the typical imbalances that my executive coaching clients report.  Let’s widen our perspective even further to consider the natural balancing that happens as part of the rhythm of life – and how to work with it.

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Achieve A Balanced Working Life Part 1

If you’ve ever worked with a coach, you’ve probably been introduced to the idea of the balance wheel.  This is a popular coaching tool that’s used to help you take a snapshot of the major areas of your life: career, health, relationships, recreation etc.  A good coach will help you work with your wheel, asking you thought provoking questions to help you discern which areas of your life need attending to in order to bring about more balance.

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