What a powerful word, don’t you think? What is Faith? According to the dictionary it is a… …confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. or a strong or unshakeable belief in something, especially without proof or evidence. Descriptions of Faith also include: a strong belief in a supernatural [...]
Glossary
An internal or external, personal or universal entity that provides guidance about purpose and other questions about life. Popular examples for an external universal trusted sources are God, Jesus, Mary, Allah, Buddha, Mohammed, Odin, Zeus, Grace, … Their main characteristic is that they would know everybody’s purpose or answers to each person’s questions about life. [...]
Success is the progressive realisation of a worthy ideal. – Earl Nightingale A definition by Earl Nightingale (Excerpt from “The Strangest Secret“): …The only person who succeeds is the person who is progressively realising a worthy ideal. It’s the person who says “I’m going to become this” and then begins to work toward that goal. [...]
S – Specific and Simple Make it simple and specific. “I don’t want to be alone” is a simple statement, but it is far from being specific. With goal setting it is important to say what you want, not what you don’t want. Have you ever heard the expression “What you focus on is what [...]
A value is something that is important to us. When we are little, we adopt our parents’ values as our own, before we become influenced by our friends, their parents, religion, culture and other social groups and communities. At times, our values may change and what we held true as children is no longer valid. [...]
The I Ging is an ancient Chinese ‘book’ of Eastern philosophy. What does I Ging mean? The “I” means “changes in the flow of life energy (“Chi”) and “Ching” is the word for classic. The I Ging is often referred to as the “Book of Changes”, and the philosophical backbone to Chinese medicine, astrology and [...]
Meta-programs are unconscious, content-free programs we run. The help us to filter information that comes in and define how we experience our world. Examples of meta-programs are: Reason-Filters (Focus on possibility – “I can..” vs necessity – “I must…”) Action-Filters (Active, Reflective, both, Inactive) Attention Direction (Self, Others) Primary Interest Filter (people, places, things, activity, [...]
Neuro Linguistic Programming – neuro refers to our nervous system, the neuro pathways in our brain, linguistic to the language and other non-verbal communication system we use through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning and programming relates to the ability to program our brain, like we can program software for a [...]
“n.othing i.nside c.ares e.nough” to tell the truth. The responsibility of a coach is not to be n.i.c.e, but to assist you to find the truth. This includes asking unpleasant questions, holding you accountable to agreed-upon actions and provoking thought, change or new beliefs that help you to move towards your desired outcome. It is [...]
Thanks to my Accountability Coach Shiona Long from “Authentic Success” I had my values elicited again today. (18th of May 2009) There have been significant changes on my list since I had done the values work last time, with some surprises and ‘aha’-moments.
What have values got to do with who we are?
Well, short and simple: everything.
Let me explain:
Values are …






