All Posts by Grace Minton

About the Author

I am a qualified Coach (ICF PCC level) with over 16 years of professional experience as a Coach working in both organisational and personal development. I am also a Coach Trainer, the only person able to deliver the practical units of the Master of Arts Neuro Coaching in Australia.

Reasons People Learn NLP #1

    Reasons People Attend NLP Training #1: Everything is Easier When You Connect and Channel Your Own Motivational Energy   Motivation is energy. When you are motivated you are energized to move, do, act, create, to focus your attention, to persist in the face of challenge. When you have motivational energy, your goals move […]

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The Secret of Resilience

Did you know that in cross-cultural studies, the Anglo-European culture comes up as the least resilient population in the world? One interesting explanation for this (research by Martin Seligman in the field of Positive Psychology) has drawn a link between the emphasis on building high ‘self-esteem’ in recent generations. It seems that where previous generations […]

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Lessons from the Study of Happiness

What’s interesting is not how much trouble a person faces but how they respond to itHow is it that two people can experience the exact same event yet the way they experience the event could be polar ends of a scale. George Valliant, the Grant studies long-term director, came to the conclusion “our own defences […]

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Forged in the Hottest Fire

 I recently picked up Brené Brown’s Book ‘Daring Greatly’ and couldn’t put it down. By the end of the book, I was trying to find someone else who had read it to talk to about it, like after seeing a good movie, and so here I am writing to lovers of personal development books.  So what […]

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Finding Time to Reflect with Journal Writing

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Hundreds of years ago, the Sufi Poet, Rumi, wrote: ‘You have a duty to perform… Do anything else, do any number of things, occupy your time fully, and yet, if you do not do this task, all your time will have been wasted…’ And that one duty is to be the unique expression of life […]

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