Encouraging Excellence Blog

Category: NLP Coaching

  • How To Get Off The Misery-Go-Round.

    Misery loves company, it is a way for it to validate itself. Most of the time, you will find that if you try to talk to someone about your low self-esteem, lack of self confidence or miserable situation, they will simply commiserate or empathise with you, citing their own situation as an example, rather than […]

  • Peeling The Onion – To Eat The Peach!

    So often when we have a problem we consider one issue and believe that if the issue was resolved the problem would disappear. When we do resolve the issue and the problem persists we start to wonder why we still have a problem. Encouraging Excellence was set up to help people deal with such problems. […]

  • Give Yourself Permission

    I hear so often in the course of a conversation the following phrases: “Oh, I couldn’t _____, I’d never let myself ______, I’m being bold having _____, I really shouldn’t _____”, “my life wouldn’t be worth living if I _____” needless to say you can fill in your own word or phrase for the blank […]

  • The Deception In Perception

    I met up with an old class mate this week. We re-connected on Facebook a couple of weeks ago and have been interacting online and decided to take it offline and meet up face to face and catch up. Needless to say we took a trip back down memory lane and recalled things about each […]

  • Keeping The Best For….Now!

    I’ve often come across this letter. It has been passed on to me on many occassions via fax, email or newsletter by different contacts over the last twelve years. Each time it has struck a chord with me and up to three years ago I used to say: “Yeah, I must do that….” and of […]