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Questioning – a super-power

by Jan on May 17, 2010

The power to question is the basis of all human progress. Indira Ghandi If I could choose a super-power for every child and adult everywhere, it would be the ability and desire to question themselves and the world; never to assume, but to challenge the status quo,  to say ‘hang on a minute’, to insist [...]

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Keep yourself in the picture

by Jan on March 22, 2010

You know that expression ‘getting in your own way’? It’s often used in writing about personal development, referring to the way in which we can sabotage our attempts to change our lives, we can trip ourselves up, cast a shadow over the possibilities. I literally and graphically got in my own way when I was [...]

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Take time to dream

by Jan on February 22, 2010

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. Virginia Woolf

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Change – a risky business

by Jan on December 7, 2009

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” Anaïs Nin Do you ever feel it’s just plain easier to leave things as they are? To tell the world, ‘I’m too old to change’, ‘that’s just me’, ‘you can’t teach an [...]

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Mind the gap

by Jan on November 9, 2009

Where our freedom to choose really lies I guess the idea of stimulus and response is familiar to us all. Something happens to us, and we respond. Coaches (including me) often talk about the key to personal change being in the way we choose to respond. We certainly can’t always choose what happens to us [...]

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