John Gray
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A Big Heart Can Be a Pain
This is part of an ongoing series of articles on business and life coaching by Hutt Valley lawyer and coach, John Gray. You can find his first book, “Who’s Following This Conversation?” on amazon.com. There is a saying that goes something like this: “It is better to have been pricked by the thorn than
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The Game of Life
Whether we choose to acknowledge it or not life is a game and like all games has objectives and rules. However, unlike our usual man made games the rules for the game of life are hardwired against change. There are however similarities – there is a playing field in the game of life and that is our
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As Dictators Fall…New Beginnings
“CHANGE is inevitable.. when systems and structures break down.. when ‘things’ are valued more than people.. it’s time for change. We can choose to just dismiss what is happening all around us, be in resignation about it.. i.e. ‘nothing ever changes’, or view it as an OPPORTUNITY.. The energy field of PEACE is so powerful..
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Your Wishes Fulfilled
“As the world was plastic and fluid in the hands of God, so it is ever to so much of his attributes as we bring to it. To ignorance and sin, it is flint. They adapt themselves to it as they may but in proportion as a man has anything in him divine, the firmament
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Celebrity or Celebration
Hero worship. Celebrity worship. Idolatory. These are all words that celebrate the central theme of greatness in other people or things. Main stream and social media feed our insatiable desire for vicarious fame, fortune and success through other people’s lives. Why then the need for celebrating greatness in others? The simple answer is that we don’t
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Have a Little Faith
The title to the beautiful song by John Hiatt : “Have a little faith in me” also contains the key to manifesting our greatest desires. Listen here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aYxMuLb3h8 Often we do not see what we want manifest in our lives even though we can visualise want we want and we support it affirmatively by positive statements of
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The Olympian Spirit
I must admit that I have really enjoyed watching the fantastic televised coverage of the Olympics over the last couple of weeks. This event which takes to the world stage every four years is a tribute to the determination of the human spirit. When you think about the hours of training that each athlete has undergone
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Unmasking the Phantom
Most of us will have either seen the movie or the stage show called the “Phantom of the Opera”. This production and the central character in it are appropriately symbolic of the masks that we all wear during our daily lives which cover up our authentically true selves. Much like the Phantom we wear these
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Living Life to the Fullest
How often do we miss or ignore opportunities that may well give us exactly what we want because we are focussed on protecting the status quo or because we are just fast asleep at the wheel? Shouldn’t life be lived fully! Isn’t it better to burn out rather than to fade away? Yet most of
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Born to be loved – never doubt it
Check out this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haH8fJfROlw&feature=share