Have Patience

“..have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them.

It is a question of experiencing everything. At present, you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

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What Makes You Feel Loved?

what makes you feel lovedWhat things  do other people do for you that make you feel loved? Do you like  people to give you special gifts, or to send you cards and messages that assure you that you are loved and appreciated? Maybe you are the type of person who appreciates a hug as a way of feeling loved, or really enjoy spending time with your spouse or best friend. [Read more...]

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Are you a Builder or a Destroyer?

How much do you think about the words you use in conversation? Yet the words you say have the power to build or to destroy; to heal or to hurt. [Read more...]

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Coaching is Not Counselling

CoachingI had a great reminder last Saturday about something fundamental to coaching. It’s also something that’s often overlooked. [Read more...]

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Debunking a Communication Myth

communication mythA Widespread Communication Myth

It has to be the most publicised communication myth! On many training courses, and in books on communication skills, you will hear/read that when we communicate:

• 7% of meaning is in the words that are spoken.

• 38% of meaning is paralinguistic (the way that the words are said).

• 55% of meaning is in the body language. [Read more...]

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