Encouraging Excellence Blog

Category: NLP Coaching

  • Let It Out Before It Becomes A Blow-Out

    I watched a friend of mine have a blow-out today and was really glad to see it. She’s been through a lot recently, quite a lot actually and has been “keeping a lid on it all” really well, so much so that those of us who don’t know her very well, would think that everything…

  • Create A New First.

    Life is full of firsts and many of them are remembered by our parents rather than us. The first smile, the first step, the first tooth, the first day at school, the list is pretty much endless and many of them bring happy memories for our parents. Then there are the first that we can…

  • 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…

  • Bask In The Sun…While We Have It.

    The weather in Ireland has taken an upturn and the temperature has risen from an average of about 16 right up to 29 in parts of the country. Despite having brown eyes and brown hair, I’m fair-skinned and can develop a light tan, which means I usually turn slightly pink before turning brown over quite…

  • Why Being Comfortable Isn’t Always Good.

    Ask anyone what they want in life and the chances are the replies will go along the lines of “to be happy”. Happiness is an emotional state and I can teach you how to be happy right now if you wanted. However, like all emotional states it’s transient and that is a good thing. If…

  • Overwhelm….It’s Just Your Mind Telling You To Slow Down

    I went to a seminar last weekend. I’d wanted to go and pulled out all the stops to make sure I got there, even taking an overnight coach/ferry trip and arriving at my destination about an hour before it started with very little sleep! I knew before I went that there would be quite a…