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8 Steps To Stop Being Too Nice Do you feel that you’re often taken advantage of and that people tell you that you’re too nice? Perhaps you fear confrontation and so your wants and needs get ignored? This can leave you full of resentment and anger, making you feel anxious and fearful in some areas…

30 Day Gratitude Photo Challenge The fact that gratitude is a way to happiness is not a new concept, it’s been preached about for centuries. However recent research has shown that being grateful actually changes the brains chemistry and makes us happier. Remembering to be grateful every day for the things and people we have…

Confidence is Contagious Vince Lombardi (a successful american football coach) said: “Confidence is contagious and so is lack of confidence” In general we are attracted to those people who we believe to be confident, particularly as someone who is confident is often described as charismatic. One reason for this could be that being around a…

Take the First Step to Building Your Confidence As a Confidence Coach you can appreciate that I regularly hear people saying “I‘m just not a confident person” or “I have always had low self-confidence issues“. However these are very general statements and just because you’ve felt lacking in confidence in one situation does’t mean that…

Everyone has situations and interactions, which they feel negatively about. What if you could change your view of an event and so lose the bad feelings? This technique is known as ‘reframing’. Imagine this morning on the way to work you saw a friend and stopped to say hello. Instead of being friendly she was…

Confidence is our Natural State If you feel that you are low in self-confidence, then it’s likely that you believe you’ve always been that way. You may know that other factors will have influenced your confidence level, such as your parents, school, friends and society, but that’s just the way you are. I want to reassure…

Beach Body Confidence It’s that time of year again when wearing your shorts, bikini and swimsuit, mean that more flesh than usual is on display. Being body confident means accepting that you’re ‘good enough’ whatever your shape and size. A little extra boost can help though, so read on. Research, including that of Amy Cuddy…

The Reason you can’t Change that Bad Habit You may have been trying for years to change a bad habit, it could be drinking too much, eating too much chocolate or not exercising enough. If it’s still a problem then you obviously haven’t succeeded yet, so could your identity be the issue? Your identity is…

Where does Happiness come from? I have a problem with the word ‘Happiness’, it means such different things to different people and is therefore very hard to describe. It also tends to be very illusive, as it comes and it goes and it comes and it goes again. So whatever you do to make yourself…

Do you worry about running out of things to say? Most people occasionally find themselves in a social situation where the conversation runs dry and an awkward silence can follow. This doesn’t mean you lack social skills or you’re a boring person, there are however some tips and strategies that can help you. 6 Tips…