Before I undertook the coaching session with Anthony I felt that my career was stuck in a rut. While I was in a good job, I had no vision of where I wanted to go and it always nagged me that when asked the question where do you see yourself in either one or five years’ time, I had no idea. My future outlook truly was a blank canvas.

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I was distraught, anxious, and hopeless. A friend said I needed a strategy to walk through what I was facing in association with being gay and in a straight marriage. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had tried a counselor and a counseling group, but that left me feeling even more hopeless and totally unhealthy emotionally. The counselor and the group seemed to think I should spend years working through my wounded childhood. What I wanted was some help now in decision making  regarding my marriage and my future. Read more →

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.  I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose.  I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?“

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you  may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze.

“Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.

She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…” Read more →

Much of what I do as a coach is help people see things differently and change limited thinking and mindsets. Expanding their thinking to think bigger, brighter and about new possibilities, opportunities, options. This creative level of thinking results in significant changes in their career, relationships and performance as people’s thinking about themselves is stretched.  Research has shown that the results people get in their lives are produced by their thinking.  In other words what you think you are you are. If you can’t see it you’ll never be it.

Your capacity to achieve is limited by your mindset. A goldfish’s growth is limited to the size of the bowl it’s living in. Your mind is like the bowl. Your personal growth and what you can achieve is restricted by what you believe about yourself. We are the ones who put limits on ourselves. If you think that you are average or below average then that is all you will ever be. If you believe however in yourself and the capacity to achieve more then you reap the rewards of greater and greater success. Read more →

Everyone person procrastinates about something – it’s a human experience. Some people make it a lifestyle. Others have a PhD in it. They have developed skills and strategies to avoid things that are important. The deposit never gets saved, the new career/business never started, the bills get paid late, the assignments done the last minute. Because of their action, or lack of it, they live with stress, frustration and regret instead of pride and fulfilment.

Feeling like I will do that later, tomorrow or next week is a human experience but how you respond to that feeling is what will set you apart.

Procrastination is a habit. A habit is a learned behaviour that has become automatic. It begins by being more motivated to reduce stress and seek comfort than seeking achievement. And like any habit, it can be unlearned. It’s always more difficult to unlearn a habit than create one. Try learning to touch type after you’ve learnt to two-finger type.  It can be done though as proven by my clients prove by progressively developing a ‘do it now’ instead of ‘do it later’ attitude.

Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried –  Author Unknown

Procrastination is like a credit card: it’s a lot fun until you get the bill. – Christopher Parker

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When I engaged Anthony as a coach I had recently been made redundant from a position I thought I would be in for many more years – how life changes at short notice!  I had never considered coaching in the past, however after seeing the results another client of his achieved; results I wanted to achieve in my life as well, I decided to at least have a complimentary session.  I was at a point where I knew things had to change, but I was unsure of what and how.  I was employed in senior management in the Not for Profit sector prior to my coaching. Things were about to get exciting for me.  Read more →

It is a year since I started working with Anthony.  I purposely waited writing a testimonial until now because I was not looking for a quick fix, rather a long-term direction.  Would this program’s impact fade away or would it be long-lasting was what I needed to know.

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Completing Anthony’s Dare to be your Best Life Coaching course beyond doubt has been the best step I’ve taken in many years.  It helped me focus on what is actually important for me to live a very happy and successful life.   At the commencement I believed that I would enjoy the course but didn’t hold a great deal hope that my life would be very much different at the completion. How wrong I was!   Read more →

Moving house is a perfect time to de-clutter. I had a rather drastic rule. If I haven’t seen it, used it or worn it in the last 12 months it went. Amazing just how much ‘stuff’ that accumulates slowly into our lives. I feel freer with all that useless clutter gone; certainly lighter.

One of the things I decided was time to go was my dream board. Not because I hadn’t seen it but it had been against the window behind my computer and during winter, condensation on the window dripped on it. Over the years, it became very very tacky and considering I created it in May 1999 many of the images had faded – but not my dreams. I’m glad I had one more look over it before I threw it out or I would never had realised that one more thing had come to pass.

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Ever wished you could take back your words. I’m so embarrassed about some of my past faux pas that I will not even reveal  them here. Do words have power? Parents and teachers told us, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’, when we’d run away in tears from the bully at school. They were wrong. Words have power. Words can hurt. Words have an impact. That is why there is such a push to end bullying in schools and social media such as Facebook. But it’s not just the words others say to us it’s also the words we say to ourselves.

One way or the other – words have the power we give them

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