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Written by: Bradley Foster

Hold Me Tight – Book Review - Click To Read Article
Business is all about relationships and yet many of us are novices when it comes to maintaining and deepening our relationships. Sue Johnson has written a terrific book about how healthy relationships function. Although it was written as a guide to repairing and maintaining healthy primary relationships, it can be used as a guide to many of our other relationships.

Are Your Beliefs Holding You Back? - Click To Read Article
The beliefs I hold underlie everything I do and say and how I perceive the world around us. My beliefs combine to construct a complex web of interconnected concepts that forms my model of the world. It is literally how I see and experience the world. I have “concepts about the world and a concept is merely a belief and a belief is merely an opinion I have a particular loyalty to.*

Successful Goal Setting - Click To Read Article
Setting goals puts you in the driver’s seat, giving you the power to transform your life or take a company to another level. Successfully setting and executing goals is not rocket science but there is a tried and true way that works for my clients and me. Sticking to this program guarantee’s success. It doesn’t matter whether your goals are personal or they are used to direct a large enterprise, the steps and the pitfalls are identical. I’ll take you through a quick tour. If you like, you can identify a goal of yours and do a test run of the system. The steps to executing goals are simple, unambiguous and easy to follow and should be practiced every day. Skipping one step increases the odds that you wion’t realize your goal.

Book Review: A Master Class in Gremlin Taming: The Absolutely Indispensable Next Step for Freeing Yourself from the Monster of the Mind - Click To Read Article
Rick Carson’s Taming your Gremlin is a classic book of self-development, written over 25 years ago. It has helped hundreds of thousands quiet negative voices in their heads that hold them back. Although Rick has revised the original work, his Master Class goes deeper with new techniques for freeing yourself from the “Monster of the Mind”. Rather than focusing on what’s going on in our heads, the Master Class is more focused on being genuine with ourselves and responsible in our relationships. His writing couldn’t be more clear, his techniques more elegant, practical and effective for achieving intimacy with yourself and others in your life. Time and time he reminds us to focus our awareness and being aware of our breath. So let’s take this one breath at a time.

Self-Discipline: A Balancing Act - Click To Read Article
Self-discipline is a balancing act. We are a collection of values, motivations, intentions, fears, potential, abilities, quirks, strengths and stories we tell ourselves. How all of this translates into self-discipline depends upon how aligned we are with our goals and how we balance priorities day to day. The balance you strike is reflective of your personal style of self-regulation. Are you happy with the way you balance your life or do you tend to let things slide a long time before you notice things are out of whack? One thing I notice about people who are content with their ability to regulate themselves is that they are aware of their priorities, they are clear about them, they take responsibility for them, they take time to focus on them and they have a way of balancing competing demands on their time.

Gratitude gives you so much to be grateful for… - Click To Read Article
You don’t need to understand what gratitude is to notice when it is totally absent. When I experience a lack of gratitude, it’s like a social vacuum that sucks all that is good into it. This week, as an experiment, notice gratitude or lack of gratitude of it in those around you, then become see if you can become aware of your own. Remember, it’s not enough to experience the feeling of gratitude but it is the expression of your gratitude that is important for those on the receiving end. It’s all about impact and gratitude makes a huge impact.

Swimming in a Sea of Ideas - Click To Read Article
Creativity can be one of the best strengths to have. It helps you to solve problems, makes you versatile and able to roll with change, which in this world is a real plus. Typically my creative clients tell me that they usually do well at anything they put their hand to. For all its merits, creativity can be one of the most incapacitating strengths because sometimes there are just too many ideas to follow. Having choice is a good thing but having too much choice can be debilitating. Being focused, having choices, and not too many of them, helps creativity work for you.

Getting Clarity in Decision Making - Click To Read Article
Good decision making is important for effective leadership and career success. Good decisions, made in a timely manner can make all the difference to your success. Poor decisions court failure, affecting your status and leadership of your own life. Bradley Foster takes your through a couple tools that will help you get clarity even in the midst of some of the most difficult decisions.

The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again! - Click To Read Article
The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again. Do you know long does the average New Year’s resolution lasts? 72 hours-about the same period a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again. Make goals instead.

Being Genuine: Stop Being Nice, Start Being Real - A Book Review - Click To Read Article
Being Genuine is simply stated, one of the best books I have read all year. It very clearly and effectively conveys a process for communicating with others in a genuine and non-judgmental way. Anyone who learns and practices his four simple steps will quickly discover that their everyday communication becomes clearer, less judgmental and less conflictual because they are taking responsibility for their feelings and actions and creating a space to connect. I have never come across an easier way to show people how they can get their needs met without fear of conflict.

Making New Years’ Resolutions That Stick - Click To Read Article
If you find you have made the same New Year's resolutions over and over again each year, this article will give you some tips on how to make them stick this year.

Are you at the top of your Agenda? - Click To Read Article
Our days are just not long enough and when many of us are working upwards of sixty hours a week, good time management skills can make the difference between feeling successful or feeling like a failure, between feeling satisfaction or disappointment. Despite having access to a vast range of time management assistance some of us remain unable to use our time well.

Authentic Leadership - Click To Read Article
As an authentic leader you are an effective leader. Leadership is founded on character and intent but before this is possible you must know yourself more thoroughly than anyone else does. For you to become more effective with others, you first must become more effective with yourself. Before you focus on finding the right partner, seek to be the right partner. You must commit to being genuine, to be authentic, to be unafraid to know yourself and let others see you that way..

A Timely Time Management System for Creative People - Click To Read Article
The Buffet system is practical and flexible, yet simple. It not only keeps me focused on what I have to do, I easily manage multiple projects and goals and have the action steps to get me there. A secondary benefit is that it gives me is a sense of satisfaction that comes from feeling like I am in control of my time (excellent for keeping moping at bay). A third and for me, the most important advantage is that it keeps me productive while maintaining enough flexibility to be creative. A fourth benefit is that it helps keep me in balance, a dicey proposition at the best of times. Fifthly, I can easily pick out my priorities when I have them laid out in front of me.

Resolve to stop making resolutions! - Click To Read Article
Did you know the average New Year’s resolution lasts 72 hours or less? -about the same length a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again.

Self Motivation - Click To Read Article
This is an except from my book on self coaching. Chapter 6 deals with self motivation which is an essential ingredient in the self coaching process. This is an excerpt from my book: Deep Coaching: A Guide to Self Directed Living. You can find a free preview of three chapters to download and get directions to download the ebook or buy the book on-line. Thanks for having a look.

The Goldilocks Syndrome - Click To Read Article
Definition: An extreme sense of entitlement. Expectation of Manna falling from heaven without acknowledgment or gratitude. Named for the ungrateful character in Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Do you have an employee like this?

Self Coaching, A Guide to Self Directed Living - Click To Read Article
This is part of the first chapter of my book: Deep Coaching, A Guide to Self Directed Living. For those of us who are able to motivate ourselves, Deep Coaching provides a great methodology to keep you on track to attaining your goals, whether or not you hire a coach to help you. If you like what you see, you can pick up the first three chapters of my book absolutely free from my website.

Book Review: If you hear the message three times... - Click To Read Article
If You Hear the Message is a highly readable and inspiring account of Patricia Heller’s transformation from living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) to becoming a spiritual and self aware healer. She takes us on her journey from curing her ‘incurable’ illness to investigating healing hands, past life regression, shamanism, manifesting greatness, automatic writing, heart centred transformation, her inner gypsy woman and many more. The book is actually an excellent survey of the healing modalities in America over the past fifteen years.





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