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Get In Shape – and Win $25,000!

trevor — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:00:19 +0000

Bodybuilding.com and Optimum Nutrition launch the $100,000 Transformation Challenge

Life Coaching for Young UK Mums

trevor — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:42:26 +0000

The life coaching industry in Britain could be set to get a boost according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. According to a Telegraph source the current government is planning to give pregnant women and girls under 21 “several years” of one to one life coaching. This will be delivered by nurse practitioners via [...]

Motivation Show Goes Green

trevor — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:44:53 +0000

The 2010 Motivation Show in Chicago has announced a slew of initiatives to help it go green and reduce its carbon footprint. The most obvious change is the choice of location: the McCormick Place West building which has received LEED Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) from the U.S. Green Build Council. However there [...]

Welcome to 2010

trevor — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:54:59 +0000

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great Hogmanay and are now fully recovered, ready and eager to grab 2010 and the opportunities it offers. I’ve said before that I don’t like New Year resolutions, I consider them an excuse for failure. However that doesn’t mean ignoring the change of year. It’s still [...]

Unequal Pay for Unequal Work

trevor — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:51:08 +0000

If you run a team, a department or a whole company then how do you set pay? Do you reward your best performers more money or do you prefer an equal pay system? Many people fear that paying some people more than others at similar levels of seniority creates tension: those paid less might resent [...]

Motivational Tips From the Telly

trevor — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:53:18 +0000

How’s this for an opportunity: free motivational tips from people who get paid huge amounts of money to motivate people. I’m talking adverts here, people, in particular the Christmas advertising campaigns crucial to the retail sector. Of course the ads are designed to get you to spend money, but many of the principles apply to [...]

Personal Disaster Planning

trevor — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:00:27 +0000

In the personal development world we’re always being told that our thoughts define our reality: “As a man thinketh” and all that. To a large extent it’s true. But not completely. There are some things that no amount of positive thinking can alter and they aren’t all good. As the philosophers say: shit happens. The [...]

Too Much Competition Hinders Motivation

trevor — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:31:05 +0000

A little competition can do wonders for motivation. However it seems that too much can seriously damage it. Researchers from the University of Haifa and the University of Michigan have been examining the effect of competitor numbers on results. In US university entrance SAT results they found a negative correlation between numbers taking the tests [...]

Old Year Resolutions

trevor — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:15:51 +0000

Today is the 1st of December. A month from now millions of people around the world will be making New Year resolutions. Most will be broken within a few weeks. As I’ve said before I consider New Year resolutions an excuse for failure. So I don’t make them. Instead I’ll be making some resolutions today. [...]

Life Coaching For Kids

trevor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:19:13 +0000

I am, of course, a great fan of self-improvement. Anything that helps you get the best out of life without harming others is a Good Thing. For some people the services of a life coach can be a useful tool in the mix. For some people. But for kids? According to reports, life coaching for [...]