The Life Design Studio

Are you one of life’s winners?

Firstly let’s talk about ‘winning’.  Most people consider this to be about being the best, achieving a difficult challenge, gaining that promotion, achieving wealth or having the right numbers at Bingo.

But there’s another definition of winning and that’s ‘achieving happiness’ – this is what I’m talking about and if you haven’t ‘won’ in this sense, read on and see if you can find out why.

DIY steps to improving your confidence

I received a newsletter recently from Dave Crisp who is a fellow Life Coach.  Here are his "7 steps to increase your Confidence" which you could practice at home.

"Would you like to improve your confidence? Would you be interested in a technique that can help get rid of the fear of speaking when you have to give a talk, or that boosts your confidence for sports or other high performance needs? Could there be a time in the future, that you would like to be more assured than you have been in the past?

Driving Ambition | Driving Test Nerves

It is one of the real pleasures of my role as a therapist to become aware of making a real difference in someone’s life especially when that person has been struggling with an issue for many years. Driving Test Nerves can cause people to fail their test time and time again with often damaging effects on their self esteem.

Personal Development: Our gateway to Success

STOP not doing what you know you should do!

Powerful ideas are at the very heart of success and the single most useful tool in my personal development is, without doubt, the CD player in my car.  My glove compartment is never without a CD set by Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy or one of the stable of self development superstars. 

My regular commutes have become the gateway to success, my car provides an honors university education and my trunk holds a whole library of titles by the mentors who influenced and helped shape our unique brand of therapy at The Life Design Studio.

We have always believed that thoughts and ideas are our most powerful possessions.  An idea or a different way of viewing our life can change the way we look, act and feel at the blink of an eye...

Coping with Fear

In a recent post on his excellent web site Bruce King, an outstanding international speaker who has spent more than 25 years helping companies and individuals to become ‘World-Class Achievers’, talks about ‘Overcoming fear in sales and every other area of your life’

Bruce says

"HOW WE DEAL WITH FEAR IS A CHOICE!

"Sometimes we choose to face fear head on and we are exhilarated by it and love the experience. Other times we allow it to freeze us into inactivity. …

Strictly Come Dancing lessons

Did you see the finals of ‘strictly’ on Saturday when Alesha and Matt showed us what dedication to a goal really means? 

In their case it meant bruises; lack of sleep; gruellingly long hours of work, work, work; painful cuts; sore joints and many tears.  Was it all worth it?  They would say a resounding YES!

I wonder what lessons you and I could learn from them?  I’ve been pondering

Where's my confidence gone?

Your confidence has deserted you. You feel tongue tied... or gabble like an idiot. Sound familiar? Then read on:

Some people seem to be born confident.  Even if they screw up completely in front of strangers, they just laugh it off and continue to chat freely.

Most of us, however, don't manage to laugh off a gaff so easily and it can send us into near panic, cause us to clam up or apologise profusely.  You may be one of those people who keep out of most situations where there are strangers present, just so you are not put in a potentially embarrassing position.

There is much written about how to act more confidently and I'm all in favour of acting.  For a few people that pretence turns to a real sense of self-confidence and they can eventually become naturally easy with most circumstances.  However, lots of people tell me that even though they are very good at pretending and their friends, family or colleagues think they are completely confident; in reality they are full of anxieties on the inside.