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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

How To Make Great Decisions

How many times in your life have you put off doing something because you couldn’t decide the best course of action to take? I’ve known people plan to go out for a well earned meal with their partner and end up staying at home because they couldn’t make up their mind betwee Chinese or Italian. Heaven help the person who orders sweet and sour chicken when all along they should have been having lasagne!

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Practicing Non-Attachment

As you would probably expect, working in the field of personal development I get to spend a lot of my time with people talking to them about goal setting and visualisation. I cannot over emphasise the power of positive intention when it comes to manifesting an amazing life, but there is a common trap that too many people fall into while “dreaming their way to success”. One of the most significant developments in my realisation of what true success requires is the notion of being non-attached to the object or outcome of desire.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Radical Self-Honesty (and Unconscious Commitments)

"It is discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit." - Noel Coward The inspiration for this tip came after I had the great fortune to find out about the work of Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks. Together they run The Hendricks Institute, a hugely successful learning centre that teaches core skills for conscious living.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Antidote to Fear

"Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.” - Don Miguel Ruiz Wouldn’t it be wonderful have a fool proof strategy for getting unstuck and moving forward again whenever you find yourself in the grip of fear? I once had an almost obsessive desire to discover ‘the magic formula’ for overcoming fear in any situation. Not just so I could use it as a coaching tool but more so because I felt I could really do with it in my own life.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

3,815 views4.7/5 (3)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Writing Yourself Happy

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.” - E. L. Doctorow I have written and spoken many times about strategies for creating authentic happiness, and the recurring theme has always been “Happiness is not something you can pursue; it is who you are”.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Improving Friendships - The Key To Strengthening Relationship Bonds

I’ve just arrived back from America where I was attending the wedding of a very good friend, and because I was the Best Man I had to give a speech. Now, I’m used to public speaking and facilitating large groups of people in my personal development workshops, so you might be thinking this was a doddle for me.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Reversing Problems

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” - Albert Einstein Have you ever noticed how much easier it is to spot something that’s wrong as opposed to everything else that is working well?

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

How to Do Optimism

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” - Jimmy Dean When I was a kid I would imagine that I could make things happen just by thinking about them. For example, if my best friend was coming over to play I’d look out for him from my bedroom window and try to control the exact moment he would come cycling around the corner into my road (I was an odd child!). I would close my eyes, count to ten and then open them again, expecting to see him arriving right on cue.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

How To Get Yourself Motivated

There is one type request that I get more than any other and that is to provide strategies for generating and maintaining motivation, some people call this ‘self-discipline’. It’s actually not that common for people to ask me for step-by-step instructions on what they need do to get a task completed. You see, most often people already know what they need to do to achieve a particular goal.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Your Big Experiment

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.” - Albert Einstein Over the years it has become apparent to me that for many people on a journey of personal development or spiritual path, the subject of science often doesn't sit very well. It is as if taking a scientific approach to living in the world somehow devalues the ‘art’ of living and finding true fulfillment.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

2,386 views5/5 (2)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The 'Well Wishing' Principle

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own." - Harold Coffin Living in London I get to travel on public transport A LOT, and for someone in my line of work that provides a fabulous opportunity to observe the quirkiness of human nature in action. It is never my intention to deliberately earwig on other people’s conversations, but sometimes when you’re on a packed tube (with a stray armpit in your face) it is pretty hard not to!

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,909 views5/5 (3)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Mastering the Present Moment

What do you think of when you think about your future? And when you do think about it, which I’m sure you do from time to time, how you feel? Do you feel happy, excited, and joyous? Or do you feel uninspired, a bit nervous, or even scared? The reaso I ask is because, to an overwhelming degree, it has been my experience that when people don’t feel good about their future the reason for that is two fold.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Most Powerful Way To Be Influential

"You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.” - Scott Adams Quotes are such powerful directors of thought. They have the ability to condense big and complex ideas or concepts into short, snappy phrases that cut straight through to the simple truth of things. One of the quotes that has had the most profound and lasting effect on me comes from Gandhi. He said "You must be the change you wish to see in the world".

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Are You Here... Now? (Learning To Be Present)

One of the quickest ways out of stress is to learn how to fully experience the present moment - that’s the one that is happening right now! Most stress that people feel in their body is generated from a thought about something that has either already happened and is now over, or something that they anticipate will happen in the future, and may also never happen!

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Questions That Move You Forward

"To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions." - Sam Keen I think we all get that questions are a really powerful communication tool when we’re dealing with others, but the impact of the questions we ask ourselves usually gets overlooked, and often this can be the cause of many unnecessary difficulties in our lives. Every moment of every day we are shaping our own experience of life through our perceptual filters and the meanings we attach to what’s going on around us. I believe the single most empowering skill you can develop is the skill of cons

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,687 views4/5 (5)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Having Hindsight Ahead of Time

There seems to be an unwritten rule that states if you are going to be taken seriously in the field of personal development as a therapist, coach or trainer, then you have to have been completely screwed up at least once in your life! Well, I’m not convinced that this is absolutely necessary but, to be on the safe, you might be glad to know that, yes, life hasn’t always been as rosy for me as it is right now.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,778 views4/5 (4)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Game Of Joy

"Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.” - Mother Teresa There are two things that have always astounded me about us Human Beings. The first is just how complex we can be with our thinking and behaviour.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

How Do You DO Happiness?

In one of my personal development workshops I get my students to close their eyes and imagine, in vivid detail, one of their happiest memories, and to fully re-living it in that moment. It is amazing to witness the instant transformation in their facial expressions and body language as their nervous systems kick back into happy mode. I then ask them what actually changed in the outside world while they were doing that.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,956 views2.8/5 (6)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Getting Out of Your Own Way

"Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two, stands Resistance." ~ Steven Pressfield (Author - The War of Art) Imagine what your life would be like if you had followed through on every inspired idea you have ever had. I don’t mean those half-baked ideas like proposing a naked office day or taking a chainsaw to the roof of your car because you can’t quite afford that convertible yet! I mean the INSPIRED ideas that you were convinced would improve your life, or the lives of others, in a significant way.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,809 views5/5 (1)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Important 40% of Happiness

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.” - Benjamin Disraeli I believe we are living in very exciting times when it comes to our understanding of what makes us truly happy in the long term. Up until relatively recently (well, about 10 years ago actually) the general perception of the personal development and self-growth movement was pretty much split down the middle.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,840 views2.8/5 (6)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Art of Having a Bad Day

A lot of personal development teachers and motivational guru’s like to drill home that the key to success is ‘State Management’, i.e. your ability to manipulate your physical and emotional being so that you are constantly aligned with success producing thoughts and actions.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,867 views4/5 (2)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Life Can Be Easier

"Life is what you think it is, and gives you what you dare to dream it will.” - Anon One aspect of the human condition that I find fascinating is the way that we overcome the challenges in our lives tends to be consistent with how easy or difficult we first imagine those challenges to be. We pre-empt the obstacles that are likely to present difficulties, and run a mental rehearsal of our ability to deal with them. Of course, this is a very handy skill to have if you use that rehearsal time wisely, to solve any potential problems before they occur.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Freedom Formula

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way" Victor Frankl One of the things I love most about coaching others is when they really get that creating more of what they want in their lives doesn’t have to be complicated.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,498 views3.5/5 (2)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Ultimate Time Management Principle

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” - Johann Wolfgang Goethe We all have the same 24 hours in everyday, and the difference that makes the difference for each of us is how we choose to fill them.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

1,299 views3.3/5 (3)

By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

The Beauty of Life

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." - Confucius They say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a notion that has always intrigued me greatly. We all have moments, every so often, in which we ponder deep philosophical questions, like, ‘What is the meaning of life?’ or ‘Does a falling tree make any sound if there is no one there to hear it?’ While we can go round and round in our heads never really getting to the bottom of these issues, it’s still interesting and fun just to investigate the riddle.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Who You Really Are

"Everyone in this world shares the same innate source of wisdom, but it is hidden by the tangle of our own misguided thoughts." - Sydney Banks One of the coolest things about Transformative Coaching is that it encourages us peek behind the façade of our own story telling. That is, when we are willing loosen our grip a little and stop holding on so tightly to the personal thoughts we have about who we are and the way the world is supposed to work, we allow a space to open up in which we get to see our true nature more clearly.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Happiness: Cut Out the Middleman

"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you sit down quietly, may alight upon you." - Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864 A concept I often hear from people who are struggling to connect to a greater sense of happiness in their lives, is that they believe they would be much happier if it weren’t for the actions and attitudes of other people.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Peace of Mind for Exceptionally Busy People

"Do not confuse peace of mind with spaced-out insensitivity. A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware." - Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama) The busier more and more chaotic our lives get the more likely we are to let our unconscious mind do all our thinking for us. This, in turn, increases the likelihood that we will experience an ‘outside-in’ version of the world, i.e. we mistakenly believe that it is what is happening to us on the outside that is responsible for how we feel on the inside.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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By Paul DaltonRecently published1 topic

Being Present - Start From Where You Are

"Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment." - Eckhart Tolle When I moved to London several years ago I didn’t really know the place at all. I’d visited a few times with my family for the odd touristy day out but still didn’t know my way around. So when it came to living and working here I knew I had quite a bit of learning to do.

Primary topic: Life Coach and Life Coaching

Life Coach and Life Coaching

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