Tag Archives: Success

Better Than Done is out now

by Kelly

Better Than DoneI wrote a book for people like us.

Did I tell you I have been writing a book? Well, at last, it’s done! It’s Better Than Done, actually. My co-author, Geffen Rothe and I are so excited to share this powerful book with you. We would be ecstatic for you to get your hands on a copy of the first paperback print run or the Kindle edition, both now available on Amazon for you..

We wrote Better Than Done together over the course of two years. It is a powerful example of collaboration between colleagues, ultimately rendering us as friends and business partners.

It’s about a new, better way to set goals.

Traditional goal setting is outdated, ineffective and unsatisfying. There is a better way – paying attention to the qualities that are most important to you, every day. Better Than Done teaches you how to focus on your most valued qualities while living an ambitious life. We know this is so much more satisfying than just doing, doing, doing.

Better Than Done is more than a how-to process to achieve meaningful goals. It is a completely new way to approach being ambitious, called Intentional Goal Setting. You’ve heard the phrase “It’s about the journey, not the destination” many times. Well, we wanted to create a guidebook for how to actually do this, without compromising that desire to achieve ambitious, concrete results.

Be the first to get Better Than Done.

Get ahead of the pack and enjoy being one of the very first people to get a copy of my book in your hands. Begin your own journey of setting ambitious goals with sanity, success and satisfaction. Here it is then. Better Than Done. It’s for you. It’s for your friends. It’s for your colleagues. It’s for your children.

Buy it now on Amazon.

I am thrilled to share my book with you. Better Than Done: Sanity, Success and Satisfaction for Ambitious People is available internationally for purchase on Amazon.

Click here to buy Better Than Done in your country.

To your success and satisfaction!

 

New Coaching Program

by Kelly

life coaching

Recently, I was working to help a client overcome interview nerves. As our work drew to a close, she reported a wonderful side effect. As well as feeling confident about attending interviews, she was feeling so much more calm and confident in her current role. Tasks that used to stand out as anxiety-inducing events had now settled into the background for her as commonplace normal activities. As a result, she posed this question to me:

“What am I supposed to do with all this extra energy that I used to expend on worrying?”

What a beautiful problem to have! I’ve been considering her question deeply, and now I have an answer…

Hypnotherapy is just wonderful for clearing the blocks, the negative habits and self-defeating beliefs that can make it hard to get through the day. Once we’ve tackled those barriers and reclaimed some mental space, then the real fun begins!

The answer to my client’s questions is to use that liberated energy to begin to create your life consciously. Until now, you may have found yourself living a life that was created by default or as a result of external circumstances. With the biggest energy drains and negative components now under control, you are in the privileged position to identify your dreams and desires and begin bringing them to fruition.

This is where my coaching skill-set comes into play. Coaching is forward-looking and action-oriented. In coaching with me, you have the added reassurance of my arsenal of hypnotic tools and techniques that can be called upon, as needed, to turbo-charge your progress.

Therefore, I am delighted to announce the launch of my personalised 3-month coaching program for hypnotherapy graduates.

The coaching program is specifically designed to support you – from discovering your desires and setting clear goals, to taking joyful action, all the way through to celebrating your successes. The program supports you with nine 45-minute coaching sessions across the 3-month period to keep enthusiasm and motivation strong.

While each coaching program is personalised for your individual needs, in coaching with me you can expect these elements:

  • Naming your desires
  • Achieving your goals
  • Creating a life that you love
  • Experiencing satisfaction in the journey
  • Gaining deeper understanding of yourself through your values
  • Generating greater appreciation of your strengths
  • Tapping into the courage to take action
  • Cultivating motivation through self-recognition and celebration

Here is what some of my coaching graduates have to say:

Kelly is a highly resourceful, fun and deeply committed coach. She has a natural air of confidence and approachable authority which ensured I always had complete faith and trust in her – she was also committed to my own autonomy and had a genuine respect for my own need to reach certain conclusions and come up with ideas myself. As someone with a long history of personal development and my own interest in coaching, my standards are extremely high and I plan to recommend her unreservedly to people who I know may benefit. – Jess, Singer-Songwriter, London

Kelly has been an absolute joy and her guidance has impacted me in unexpected ways. I have seen significant impacts in several of the areas that were targets of ours from our initial sessions. I feel that the coaching has helped peel back layers which at times felt like a setback but in actuality, were moving me and our sessions forward. I have fully trusted Kelly in my times of strife to allow myself to flounder and work out the problems, allowing more of the good bits in life to take over. I am amazed at the process as I did not know what to expect at first and would recommend it to anyone. – Julie, Pilates Instructor, London

You can read more about my coaching offering on my website, where I answer some of the questions that you may have. Alternatively, if this program tickles a glimmer of excitement inside of you, then get in touch and let’s talk. I’m offering a complimentary 30-minute consultation to answer any questions you may have and to explore how my coaching program could help you take your next joyful step in life.

Program Details

To make most efficient use of time, the coaching program is offered via telephone (or Skype, Facetime, Google Hangout). By working the program remotely, you will find it simple to fit our calls into your busy week. A 45-minute call allows you to speak during lunch breaks at work or to find space in your schedule between your business appointments.

Face to face coaching in my London offices is also available upon request.

Program Price

The program cost is £195 per month for 3-months.   Should you wish to purchase the entire program upfront, I offer a full payment price of £550.

In order to deliver exquisite service to my coaching clients, I only have room for 5 coaching clients for this launch. So if you’re ready to get started designing a life that you love, get in touch today for a complimentary 30-minute consultation to get you on the path to living a life that gives you joy.

 

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The Secret to Making a Hard Choice

by Kelly

Making a hard choice

 In her TED talk, How to make Hard Choices, philosopher Ruth Chang shares a new way of handling choices between two difficult options. “What makes a choice hard is the way the alternatives relate” she explains. “In a hard choice, one alternative is better in some ways, the other is better in other ways and neither of them is better than the other overall”.

The key to her argument is that when evaluating hard choices we are really evaluating our values. She posits that we incorrectly apply scientific thinking to values, “assuming that values, like justice, beauty, kindness are akin to the scientific quantities like length, mass and weight…”

Values are typically single abstract words like love, freedom, security, trust or joy. These words represent what’s important to us and will determine where we spend our time, our energy and our resources. I regularly use values in my work with clients. If you recall the Hierarchy of Change model that I wrote about in January, you’ll remember that changes made at the level of values and beliefs will automatically impact on your behaviours, your capabilities and your environment.

Most often our values are unconscious and were installed in the formative years of early childhood. Values are installed unconsciously through the strong influences of our family, our education and our culture.   Unless we bring those values to conscious awareness, we are destined to evaluate our hard choices based on someone else’s outdated programming.

Once you uncover and claim your own values, you are then much better equipped to be able to make a decision when faced with a hard choice. Ruth Chang explains that hard choices occur when the options are “in the same league of value, while at the same time being very different in the kinds of values [they fulfill]”. For instance, if choosing between two career options, perhaps one as a graphic artist and the other as an investment banker, the graphic artist option fulfills the value of creativity and expression and the investment banking option fulfills the values of security and status. The key to making the hard choice is to know what values are most important to you. When we make these hard choices from our values we are setting ourselves up to enjoy the most satisfaction with the chosen option.

So when faced with a hard choice between two options, I encourage you to follow Chang’s advice: “Instead of looking for reasons out there, we should be looking for reasons in here.” Make your decision based on your values, on what’s most important to you, to build a life rich in satisfaction.

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Five Strategies of Super Successful Clients

by Kelly

How to be successful

New clients often ask me how they can make sure they get the most out of the work we do together.  In this month’s blog post I share with you the top 5 strategies my most successful clients have employed to make the changes created in the consultation room a permanent part of their lives.

Make change a short-term priority

Life can get busy and hectic and get in the way if we let it.  Clients that are super successful at getting the results they want, make change a priority in the short term.  By creating non-negotiable space in their busy schedules they ensure they have the time to attend our consultations and practice the tools I give them.

Take responsibility for your results

As a professional I will give you the very best of my training, knowledge, care and attention but I am not going to be there with you for the other 23 hours in the day where you’re making decisions.  To create permanent change, you need to break through the barrier of inertia, and sometimes that means putting in conscious effort to get the ball rolling.

Do things differently

As the old adage goes “If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got”.  Super successful clients follow up our consultations by taking consistent action and practicing new behaviours that support their goals.

Use the tools

I have spent the last decade of my life scouring the world for tools of transformation to share with my clients, but a hammer won’t drive a nail if you don’t pick it up and use it.  Clients that see the most rapid change are the ones that use the tools between sessions.

Focus on your victories

It’s easy to focus on our shortcomings, our failures, and our slip-ups.  Focusing on your victories, no matter how small at the beginning, will teach you to build that muscle of positivity and belief that change is possible.  With positive reinforcement, day-by-day that muscle will get stronger and soon you’ll be celebrating larger and larger victories.

By following these five strategies of super successful clients you’ll be setting yourself up to get the very most out of your investment, allowing you to enjoy the benefits of our work together for the rest of your life.

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