7 Ways To Avoid Murder On Thanksgiving
I’m sure you know that the holiday period is the most stressful time of the year, but my guess is you don’t know exactly how stressful it is is and how that stress is likely to manifest itself.
But worry not, I’m here to help you make sure that your family get together to give thanks for turkeys (and other flightless tasty birds) doesn’t turn into another St Valentines Massacre.
But first a sobering fact for you to take into consideration.
The chances of you, or a loved one, turning into a homicidal maniac and slaughtering your family and all your neighbors on Thanksgiving rises from the usual 5,000,000 to 1 to a s...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 26, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Confessions of a TV Ad Executive
Before I get to today’s awesome guest post (and I’m not exaggerating, it’s one of those posts that I wish I’d written) I just want to give you the heads up on a couple of things.
Firstly, the early bird price for the next Coach the Life Coach training ends this Friday 20th.
So if you want to take advantage of a 25% discount then now is the time and you can click here for more info.
An interesting note to ponder. I have had a few people attend the courses who have no intention of becoming Life Coaches, but who want the skills, which incidentally, is exactly how I got into coaching.
Secondly, I am going t...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 20, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Guest Posts Source Type: blogs
Life Coach Training For The Real World
Over the last 3 years or so I have worked with more and more Life Coaches who were looking to get a leg up in the highly competitive self development industry.
Some of the work has been no different to working with any other client, except maybe with more explanations along the way so they understood my rationale being certain processes and procedures.
Whereas with other Life Coaches it encompassed a lot more training and explaining. Help with their marketing, their website optimization, Social Media and any number of other elements of building a successful business online.
Newsflash: Most Life Coaches Are Failing
The fact...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 17, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching life coach training Source Type: blogs
Motivation In 12 Easy Steps
Over the space of the last 5 days opposite sides of my family have seen very close friend pass away.
Neither of the men were young, but nevertheless, neither were expected to leave us this quickly either and they have left behind a lot of grieving.
Earlier in the week I had heard from my publishing agent. She was taking a sabbatical after losing her brother and nephew on K2, one of the worlds most brutal mountains.
K2 isn’t only the second highest peak on the planet, it also has a reputation for appalling weather which can materialize out of nowhere and literally freeze mountaineers to death, blow them off the mountain o...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 12, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Should You Change Your Job, Your Boss or Your Career Approach?
I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want, but if you’re looking for career advice I can tell you, I don’t do that.
But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career.
Skills that make me a godsend for people who are stuck, people like you maybe?
If you hire me that will be the start of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you.
But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you*
Annnnyway. That’s my introduction to today’s guest post that a handful of people will be laughing at and a w...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 7, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Guest Posts Source Type: blogs
How To Beat Your Negativity Bias
Reframing is possibly the most powerful tool self development and Life Coaching has to offer.
It has been scientifically proven not just to improve happiness, but also to change the structure of the brain in a positive way.
I think we can both agree that’s very cool, but what’s even cooler is that it’s not even that hard to do if you can be arsed.
In fact even though I don’t know you I’d go as far as to say you’re already probably an expert reframer.
That’s the good news, but there’s some bad news to follow.
The Negativity Bias
As a Human Being you’re hard-wired to remember negative events more easily...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - November 3, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
10 Amazing Benefits Of Meditation
I had a fascinating consult call with a prospective client last week who get very offended when I described some aspects of new age philosophy as woo-woo.
I tried to explain that, to me anyway, any process that couldn’t be explained by science (and this includes some NLP processes that I use with clients) are by (my) definition, woo-woo.
I think she realized at that stage she was talking to the spawn of the devil and declared we weren’t a good fit before I even had the chance to ask her:
“If you ‘re an expert in manifestation what the hell were you doing manifesting a call with me?”
All flippancy aside, if I...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - October 28, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
6 Reasons Einstein Was A Self Development Guru
We all know Albert Einstein as the loveable (albeit it dead and loveable) violin playing physicist with a radical hair-do and a penchant for the ladies, but he was much more than that.
A brief search of some of the mans finest quotes soon reveals that not only was he nifty with a piece of chalk, a blackboard and some funny looking symbols, but the dude also knew self development.
1. Insanity Is All Around
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”
If Einstein could have just have said ‘Be the change you want to see in the world” before Gandhi he’d have bagged th...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - October 22, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Goliath Never Stood A Chance
It may seem arrogant to say this, but Malcolm Gladwell reminds me of me.
Of course he’s much more intelligent, a far superior writer, has more money, doesn’t swear as much and is probably a more interesting dinner guest who won’t drink your finest wines.
But we were both born in England, and more importantly we both love to kick incorrect conventional wisdom in the bollocks when given half an opportunity.
I make no bones of the fact I have a bit of a man-crush on Mr Gladwell due to the fact he wrote one of my all-time favorite books, ‘Blink‘ (al).
In ‘Blink’ Gladwell does an outstanding jo...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - October 18, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Reviews & Previews Source Type: blogs
10 Ways Modern Technology Can Make You Thoroughly Miserable
It’s come to my attention that I have been negligent lately in helping out my readers who like to be miserable and want a sucky life.
I even received an angry e-mail from one reader accusing me of being a miserablist and saying that ever since I uploaded the video How Be Miserable the quality of my content has gone downhill.
And sadly I think that person may very well be right and I hung my head in shame.
Therefore, it’s time for reparation and to take a detailed look at how you can use modern technology to ensure hours and hours of misery, sleepless nights and ruin just about every relationship you have.
It’s not ea...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - October 14, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
How Do I Stop Judging People?
I have worked with dozens and dozens of clients who as part of the Life Coaching process have wanted to working on being less judgmental about others.
I’d even go as far as to say it’s rare not to have a client on my books who has that down as something they want to work on.
It’s a worthy and lofty goal, yet incredibly difficult if not almost impossible to achieve.
You’re hard wired to judge. If you weren’t you’d now be dead. Most of the judging you do however is done very quickly, often at an unconscious level and can be highly beneficial.
It’s also mainly binary, and by that I mean you ask yourself ques...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - October 6, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Tell Me Your Favorite Self Development Book And Win
Probably once or twice per year I’ll ask people on my Facebook page what their favorite self development book of all time is or even what is the self development book that has most positively influenced their life.
On the Coaching Books page of the Coach the Life Coach website I have started building a page of high quality self development and Life Coaching books.
I’m too lazy to count, but I’m guessing there are about 70 books listed and pretty much all of them are dripping with sweet awesomeness.
They are broken up into classifications to make it easier to search and they are:
Life Coaching Skills
General Self Dev...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - October 2, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
How To Seize The Day For Non-Ninja’s
I have no idea how many guest posts or pitches I have been sent in the last month or so, but I’d definitely need extra fingers to count them all.
And they all got a polite ‘no thanks‘ if I don’t think you’d be impressed.
Well except those that if they were being totally honest, would have read,
“Dear A Daring Adventure or some random dude who may be reading this,
Sadly, I’m a complete f.ing idiot and cannot be arsed to do any research whatsoever about what kind of material you’re looking to publish on your blog.
However, I’m just desperately throwing some shit in yo...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - September 29, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Guest Posts Source Type: blogs
10 Idiotic Motivational Quotes
I’m not entirely sure if it’s illegal to have a Pinterest account and not post random motivational quotes from time to time, but I suspect it is by the sheer amount of people doing it.
And that’s very cool because who doesn’t love a great motivational quote or two? I know I do and I too am ‘guilty’ of posting and sharing the good ones I stumble upon.
The problem is though that some people are so eager to demonstrate their insight and understanding they forget to actually use any insight or try to understand what the person quoted really meant.
The result is they post quotes that would have not only been better ...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - September 25, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
Can People Really Change?
The following is an expanded and rewritten versions of the last e-mail newsletter I sent out to my subscribers
This is only the second time I have used a newsletter as the basis of a blog post.
However, I think this is such an important message that it bears repetition and hopefully a wider audience.
My Introduction To Stress And Anxiety
Even though I can remember having issues with anxiety way back into my early teens and even earlier, it wasn’t until I got into my early twenties that it started to play havoc with my sleeping.
I was in a low stress job working in a family run business, I had my own home, no money wo...
Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - September 19, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs
