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Andrew Halfacre continues his introduction to the fourth version of his highly successful workbook:
“Seven Ways To Figure Out What You Want”
Continuing our look at the perplexing problem of working out what we really want. Last time, we met Mike Johnson, a typical client stuck in mid career. Like many of his ilk, he realises that [...]

Andrew Halfacre introduces us to the fourth version of his highly successful workbook:
“Seven Ways To Figure Out What You Want”
As a working coach I’ve long been intrigued by the phenomenon that while nearly all of my clients can tell me what they DON’T want, a much smaller number can tell me what they DO want. [...]

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.
We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small
Does not serve the world.
There’s nothing [...]

Here are three stories you might find useful. There are more in the links at the end.
Tethered elephants
I was doing a hike through the jungle as a tourist, when I saw these large elephants tethered to a small stake. I asked their trainer ‘How can you keep such a large elephant tied to such [...]

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And [...]

Thought, I love thought.
But not the juggling and twisting of already existent ideas.
I despise that self-important game.
Thought is the welling up of unknown life into consciousness,
Thought is the testing of statements on the touchstone of consciousness,
Thought is gazing onto the face of life, and reading what can be read,
Thought is pondering over experience, and coming [...]

I was looking for a Christmas coaching story but could not find one.
However, in a time when many people complain about an over materialistic and commercial approach to a religious and family festival, I thought that this one might be suitable. It can be found amongst other stories in Brefi Group’s free downloads.
An American investment [...]

Here is a special gift for you to celebrate our 200th anniversary edition.
It is a PowerPoint story: The Daffodil Principle.

This poem was submitted by Michael Skirving.
It is un-attributed but it is understood to have been written during the 30 year period that the author was held in a mental institution.
It speaks volumes about the need for us to change the way in which we treat our fellow human beings
When I ask you [...]

I have been on some courses with T Harv Eker in which there were several references to the growing pattern of bamboo.
So I thought I would research the story.
You prepare the soil, pick the right spot, then plant the Chinese Bamboo seed. You water it and wait. But you wait an entire year and nothing [...]