I have to say I started all wrong. On my first real date with my wife, I took her out to go shooting. Now my wife did not know where we were going and had not really seen me since I had left for the Marines. We dated a few times in high school but never really hit it off. Imagine how she...

Many of my coaching clients are coaches themselves, and quite a few of them have asked me how to promote their coaching business online. Here is some of the information I have shared with them. Use these tips and ideas to promote your own coaching practice online, get more clients and make more...

A few practical tips worth revisiting are:

** Be prepared and know exactly what it is you want from this meeting;

** Thoroughly research the company youre going to be dealing with;

** Choose an outfit appropriate for the meeting if unsure ask your friends (asking your...

This article looks into ways to help people break free from shyness. The advice is based from personal experience and I hope it will provide inspiration to many people.

As a child and well into my teenage years, I was a person who was often referred to as being very shy. Even though this...

My name is Stephen Hill, I have overcome a stammer which had been a major thorn in my side for eighteen years. My aim in life is to try and help as many other people to achieve fluency as I can.

When I had a stammer, I would attend speech therapy, at which I would be told to slow down or...

Ive had many aha and self-congratulatory moments through coaching myself using self development workbooks. I refer to this as Self-Coaching.

Self-Coaching yourself in this way is great if youre:

1. Shy;

2. Too busy for one-on-one coaching;

3. Someone who doesnt like...

As a former owner of a National Speakers Bureau, I have learned from several thousand professional speakers “How to Give a Great Speech.” Here are some techniques that I share with my coaching clients who want to become paid professional speakers or business professionals who want...

Word of mouth is one of the most effective ways to grow your coaching business. Its free, or at most costs very little, yet very few coaches use it to anywhere near its potential!

Consider this: if you got just one referral from each one of your clients, over the next 60 days youd double...

How To Effectively Make Better Decisions In Life – Familyvision Column

Ben danced to his own beat. He never listened to anyone, not his parents or his instructors. Bens motto was I do it my own way. As a consequence, Bens life was a series of bad decisions. He was unsuccessful in...

In business, like the rest of life we will often encounter people who are just that little more difficult to get along with. Some use the term personality conflict to describe the situation, yet this suggests that there is some sort of unbreakable barrier and that the problem is somewhat...

I worked for many years in an office environment and would have enjoyed the experience if it was not for a number of over bearing and annoying colleagues. These people seemed to spend the whole day bitching and gossiping about other people which can make life at work very stressful and...

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, the holiday that has its origin in the Puritans tradition of giving thanks for a good harvest. The Puritans werent the first in this regard. Many religious and societal traditions are based in the concept of gratitude. What all these traditions may or...