How do you define success?

As part of my coaching course, one of my essays was to define success. In my research, I found there were the usual dictionary definitions: the accomplishment of an aim or purpose the fact of getting or achieving wealth, respect, or fame the correct or desired result...

100 Goals for 2016

Last year, ok it was a couple a weeks ago, I bought the Leonie Dawson’s Shining Year workbooks and one of the things she asks you to do is set out 100 goals for yourself for the coming year. This was really daunting for me, because I was thinking 100 seriously?...

How to set SMART ARSE Goals

On my coaching course, when we looked at goal setting, we were reintroduced to SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely). We were then shown a couple of variations on SMART: SMARTER = SMART + Energy/Enthusiasm + Reward SMART CAR = SMART...

How to create your own success bank

Over the last year, anytime I had too much change in my purse, or found any change lying around, I’d pop into into a large bottle-shaped piggy bank. This bottle was full of 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c etc coins, and started to be quite heavy. As the Irish government...

My 12 challenges for 2016

The best definition of what life coaching actually is that I’ve come across, was on the Positive Psychology Programs website: Life coaching is generally predicated on the belief that a person has the solutions to their most pressing questions and challenges...