Assertiveness Training

Assertiveness is one of the issues that people most frequently request my coaching support for.

As part of my series of life coaching books, I have recently written a downloadable eBook describing 5 different methods of helping people to become more assertive.

To find out more please click on the link below:

Assertiveness Training - How to Be Assertive

Blog Post Written by Life Coach David
For Information about David's Telephone Coaching visit: Life Coaching

Affiliate Marketing - Self Improvement Products

Affiliate Marketing involves promoting and selling someone else's products for a commission or other fee.

The web page below gives some information about affiliate marketing if you want to earn additional income from selling someone else's self improvement products, such as self help ebooks, online under an affiliate program.

Affiliate Marketing - Self Improvement Products

Blog Post Written by Life Coach David
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Dealing with Anger

Anger is a natural emotional state in which triggered by a situation or by your own feelings about yourself or someone else you experience a surge of energy and a flow of adrenaline through your body.

In itself there is nothing wrong with anger - the problems arise when it is excessive or out of control and when you behave towards someone else (or yourself) in a damaging way because of your anger. When that happens it can create problems for you and for others.

Anger is one of the biggest causes of difficulties in relationships and also carries health risks for the person experiencing it, including potentially increasing your risk of:

• high blood pressure


• heart disease and cancer


• depression


• self harm


• substance misuse

For some information about possible approaches to dealing with anger effectively, click on the link below:

Dealing with Anger

Blog Post Written by Life Coach David
For Information about David's Telephone Coaching visit: Life Coaching

Life Coaching Exercises

My latest eBook available for immediate download is a collection of 50 life coaching exercises which should be useful both for personal development and for life coaches who would like a resource of coaching exercises that they can use with clients in appropriate situations when providing coaching.

To find out details of the life coaching exercises included, please click on the link below:

Life Coaching Exercises

Blog Post Written by Life Coach David
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Unhealthy Food and Brain Signals

According to an article published in the Daily Telegraph on 1 May 2009, researchers have now discovered that different parts of the brain become active when people are tempted by unhealthy food.

The article highlights an 'angel' part of the brain which it seems is strong in people who have good self control and less strong - according to the article - in those whose self control is not so good.

On the other hand it seems that there is another part of the brain, the 'devil' part of the brain, which is active when you feel that temptation to eat unhealthy but enticing food.

You can see the article online at the link below:

Angel and Devil Brain Signals for Food

The technical name for the angel part of the brain if you're interested in that kind of thing is "the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex" (DLPFC).

The practical question remains however - what can you or I do to increase the chances of our angel part of the brain being activated and helping us to control our eating habits?

The scientists are still working on that one, so until they find the answer, it may be best to stick to common sense practical strategies to increase your chances of eating healthily, such as:

1. Remove opportuntities for eating tempting but unhealthy food - if it's not there you can't eat it.

2. Identify in advance situations where you might be tempted to eat unhealthily or to excess and prepare a plan for how you are going to deal with those situations.

3. Think back to occasions when you successfully resisted temptation and if possible repeat the strategies that worked for you then.

Blog Post Written by Life Coach David
For Information about David's Telephone Coaching visit: Life Coaching