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40s to 20s and back

GILBERT LABOUR'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE FOR 2008

In love but unhappy

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OBESITY - A Lifestyle choice?

Hardcore Boot Camp

GEMINI PERSONAL TRAINING HOME PAGE

GEMINI PERSONAL TRAINING COMPLIMENTARY SESSION OFFER

CORPORATE STRESS BUSTER PROGRAM

Happiness is something as we approach we veer from and as we veer from we approach

Workplace stress leading to suicide

Facing up to workplace bullies. It's easier than you think

Funding the next major goal/hurdle with energy

Gilbert Labour's Life Coaching New Year Message for 2007

Psychopathic alcohlics are the suicide bombers of the corporate world

To live is to grieve

Life Coach Position Statement: Hands-on management of introduced and self generated chaos in self and others

Corporate Psychopathy is a rogue wave 'safely' ridden by only the craziest surfers

Influential enough to be credible and credible enough to be influential

Pain provides a story, a point of reference, a structure, a past but no future

You may want to run your finances using risk mitigation strategies but never your life

Teaching leadership is a bit like trying to teach someone how to love

He wasn't in that league, if he was he would have known he wasn't

Weakly to the city please

Strive for influence even when you have power. Strive for power even when you have influence

Reducing your loss free of emotional baggage is a win

Psychopathy is never a good thing but it is not always a bad thing

Seven Key Senses to Corporate Success

Special Offer - Three months life coaching for the price of two

Payback Australian Style. Tuong Van Nguyen sinks Singapore Government.

In coaching leadership is side by side not from the front

It is important to keep in mind that what is emotional may not be real and what is real may not be emotional

The Betrayal. Is there life after betrayal by a life partner?

What can go wrong when everything is going so right?

Occupational Narcissism

Preventing Suicides

Gilbert Labour's New Year Message for 2006

Get busy over the holidays and get a head start over your competition

The time behind a desk is wasted if it is not used to generate at least one good idea a week and one great idea a month

Is retrenchment a soul destroying blow or life affirming opportunity?

What are great life coaching web sites about?

The qualities of a brilliant Executive Coach - there are no others

What is an epiphany?

Develop multiple exit strategies but nail one

Modern workplaces dominated by female psychopaths are bestial, flee from them or die trying

My new mobile details are 0406 164 801

Being just good enough is not enough not nearly enough

The pain of failure is worse than death

Thank your enemies

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Corporate Psychopaths

Sociopathy. A modern disease or the only way to succeed? A free web forum on ICQ. Join ICQ #671412 every Wednesday at 10pm AEST.

Are you living enough?

Fear of failure that stops you or the failure of fear to stop you. Which is it?

The Top 5 Life Coaching Web sites in the World

The no need to wait buy now commercials - it's easy. There is no harder thing.

Life Coaching Short Message Service SOS

Gilbert Labour's Life Coaching Message for Australia Day 2005

When you give up something that really matters to you a little bit of you dies

Gilbert Labour Announces The Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA)

Gilbert Labour announces a coalition of life coaches - Life Coaches Without Borders - to help the Rodrigues (part of Mauritius) victims of the recent Tsunamis in South-East Asia

DO THE Ks LOSE THE Ks

Hurdles to changing your life are not a mile high but an inch high

Flight from Reality to Obesity

Losing Weight is not a mountain but a slope

Seeking help to beat your obesity is not the whole story, you still have to supply the other 99.99%

To improve your past, improve your current situation with life coaching

Move on fast from failures but move on faster from successes

Get a life coach to snap you out of your winter blues

Sometimes you have to get down on your hands and knees and praise your enemies

Show me the man without enemies and I'll show you a mediocrity

The time behind a desk is wasted if it is not used to generate at least one good idea a week and one great idea a month

The time spent in a corporate environment is only useful if it buys you time to build your escape hatch. Use of this time for any other purpose is an absolute and tragic waste so is taking it seriously

Remember great work for those capable of the best requires personal sacrifice. It is conceived in pain and delivered in agony. There is no better gestation for this work.

Obesity: Drop everything right now and treat it The only way to beat obesity is to put your life on hold right now as if you've been told you have cancer and devote the next six months to saving your life. Nothing else matters at this time except you. In six months time you will not want to go back to the life you have now. Take those on the journey with you who can help you such as a personal trainer, life coach or close friend (but one who has no vested interest in keeping you fat). Eschew everyone in your life right now (inc. family, lovers, friends) for they have passively or actively contributed to your problem. Get away from these people no matter how well intentioned, no matter how much they love you or you think you love them. This six months will require sole focus on your health with no distractions whatsoever. Do it or die.

40s to 20s and back If you're in your forties going strong means going back to your roots (20s) and reevaluating your progress. Remember great work for those capable of the best requires personal sacrifice. It is conceived in pain and delivered in agony. There is no better gestation for this work.

GILBERT LABOUR'S NEW YEAR MESSAGE FOR 2008 One can only think of the best when you're in the zone. When you're being the best you can be can you then extrapolate your personal experience into something that may be remotely useful to another person on this earth.

Obesity The size and shape of the body is the shape and size of the pain being comforted by the food. The larger the body the greater the pain begin comforted.

On Love and Depression In love but unhappy. Depression leading to suicide.

Health Coach A life coach who is also a qualified and registered personal trainer and who can provide a multi-disciplinary approach to exceptional performance.

Obesity - a life coaching and personal training approach Part II Additional ideas, thoughts and approaches for treating obesity.

Obesity - a lifestyle choice? Obesity is a personal choice not a condition or an illness. It is an emotional pain limiting strategy doomed to failure.

Hardcore Boot Camp Boot Camp for Hardcore Fitness Enthusiasts (and those who would like to be). This is the boot camp to give you the six pack you crave or lose those 20 kilos that you've been carrying for 5 years and meaning to lose.

GEMINI PERSONAL TRAINING HOME PAGE Gemini is a personal training studio on wheels. We come to you (anywhere in Sydney) and at a time when you're available (24x7). We train you in your home, in the park near your place or in your place of work if there is a suitable and private area for personal training. We will design a program that will get you to your goals quickly and cost effectively. Your first training session including an pre-exercise screening is complimentary.

GEMINI PERSONAL TRAINING COMPLIMENTARY SESSION OFFER Gemini is a personal training studio on wheels. We come to you (anywhere in Sydney) and at a time when you're available (24x7). We train you in your home, in the park near your place or in your place of work if there is a suitable and private area for personal training. We will design a program that will get you to your goals quickly and cost effectively. Your first training session including an pre-exercise screening is complimentary.

CORPORATE STRESS BUSTER PROGRAM A unique program combining personal training and career transition coaching. Designed for those corporate warriors who need to get fit to cope with the pressures of the environment whilst at the same time assisting with the development of an alternative career path that is viable and sustainable in the long run.

The measure of happiness Is there a way to measure how happy or unhappy you are? I would have thought that is a better use of mathematics than trying to work out what the state of the universe was a nano-second before the big bang. Important but hardly going to make people blissfully happy is it? Apologies to Stephen Hawking whose life is dedicated to finding the answer scientifically.

Workplace stress leading to suicide There is greater danger in not changing than there is in changing. If you find your creativity stifled, the very marrow in your bones feeze when you enter the doors of work you need to seriously think about leaving your current job. After all it's only a job, there are plenty of others out there but only one of you. You must care about you because if you don't nobody else will. Even if you do nobody else will anyway.

Heaven in hell, hell in heaven When the time is right to make the next move in your life, you know it. Don't let anyone stop you from doing what you know is right. Know your heart's desire and stay true to it. Sometimes you need to go thru hell to know the heaven on the other side. The harder the hell the more you'll appreciate the other side. The problem is not this fact but how to engineer the transition from hell to heaven which needs lots of energy, foresight, planning and initiative when you're actually suffering a great deal from your current situation and all your energy is directed to surviving (just) that situation. That is the dilemma of living in a nightmare. How to make the right exit moves (now) that will pay off when you make it (later). Not just any old move but one which is strategic for your time in life and the cycle you're in. You will face many problems before you can make the transition.

Having a rough time at work or at home (or both) with a psychopathic manager or partner? Psychopathic partnership: the unexpected is the norm and the norm unexpected. Whether it is working with a psychopathic manager or living with a psychopathic partner the norm will be stress, anxiety and great worry. Read these few lines it may help you make the right decision for you. In this instance this is a decision that you must make for yourself, you cannot rely on anybody else to save you from a psychopathic partner or manager. You must proactively manage the transition from stress and anxiety to good mental health and it can only be done by leaving the psychopthic person. There is no other way. Once they have their claws in you, they won't let go. All psychopaths need victims and if you just happen to be in the right place at the right time to be their victim then you have to get out. To stay for any length of time is to die a slow death.

Personal Integrity in a Corporate Environment Is there such a thing? In other words does power and the lust for power have self-imposed limits?

Corporate psychopathy Facing up to workplace bullies. It's easier than you think. The price you have to pay for not facing them is more than the price you have to pay for facing them.

Why Valise Coaching? I have renamed this web site and business run from this web site Valise Coaching to attach a brand to the product and services available from this web site. Once developed and recognised it will mean quality products and services delivered anywhere in the world.

Corporate psychopathy and military success In some cases psychopathy can lead to wins.

Everybody dies All tenure in organisations is transient. One way or another one day you too will leave of your own accord, retire or die on the job.

Project Rescue Do you have a large project that you think is out of control? Do you feel something is wrong but can't put your finger on it?

Funding the next major goal/hurdle with energy Face your fears and conquer them to create new energy. Search the darkest recesses for your hidden fears and discover new energy. If your deepest fear is public speaking, search for an international conference on your expertise, write a paper and present it in front of hundreds of people. It will be a liberating experience. Liberating lots of energy.

Executive Stress Revisited I like to think of stress as a permanent chess board in your brain with a game always on. Some permutations of the pieces and consequently how the game is poised at any particular time will leave you more stressed and other permutations will leave you less stressed. The control you feel you possess over the chess pieces at any given time is indicative of the level of stress you're experiencing.

Gilbert Labour's Life Coaching New Year Message for 2007 Can't afford a life coach or too scared to use one? Use the methods and techniques of life coaching to overcome existing obstacles and put in place a plan for success in 2007. These include putting in place a platform for performance, controlling mental and physical health issues and using your creativity to provide you with more choices in your personal, business and work life. These strategies are outlined in my new book Corporate Psychopathy - Death in the Workplace.

Insideout Furniture Katoomba, NSW Australia InsideOut decided many years ago that we would guarantee timely delivery, quality, customisation and after sales service of all our products. At a glance, most sofas, beds, mattresses, chairs and other timber products all look pretty similar. They are covered in fabric, paint or lacquer and the retailer selling them "Will swear they represent terrific quality for the price". To recognise real value for money, you must understand what makes one product better than another. In comparison, every product purchased from InsideOut, is of the best quality and is the best price possible.

Life Coaching (inc. Personal Trainer services) all inclusive in the one low price 2 x 1 hour personal training sessions included free in any two month life coaching engagement.

Alcoholics in the workplace They are the suicide bombers of the corporate world.

SMS - Short Men Syndrome Those that suffer from SMS waste their emotional energy and effort on trying to prove to themselves something that can never be true. Dealing with SMS is a study in frustration.

A change for the better? In every transition things will go wrong. The question is do you roll back the change (and go back to something that was probably not working) or roll forward and take a leap into the unknown and a risk that the change you planned may not work at all. The problem is you have to do one or the other. Which will it be?

Life Coach Availability (November, 06 to January, 07) During the next three months my availability will be somewhat limited due to holidays, business trips, conferences and other planned absences. If you require an appointment, please give me sufficient advance notice (say 1-2 weeks) in order for me to meet your requested dates. My fee for a one hour appointment is $140 and applies to me coming to you anywhere in the Greater Sydney area.

Grief To live is to grieve. The way back in total darkness.

More Life Coaching Thoughts and Ideas Life Coach Position Statement: Hands-on management of introduced and self generated chaos in self and others.

Life Coaching One Day Sessions One full day devoted to life coaching your life to success. Announcing a unique series of life coaching one day sessions to be held in Sydney during September, 06. They will be held between the 18/09/06 and 24/9/06. Each day will cater to one person only or by arrangement one person and their partner. Each session will be held in a luxury hotel in Sydney and includes all meals for one day (inc. dinner) and costs $750 per person.

Life Coach Available anywhere in Sydney We come to you at a location convenient to you.

The end of the journey Every journey has to end. What next?

9 July 2006 Edition A short daily commentary on whatever is going in the world but from a life and executive coaching viewpoint. If possible and appropriate I will link each commentary into a common theme for the day.

22 June 2006 Edition A short daily commentary on whatever is going in the world but from a life and executive coaching viewpoint. If possible and appropriate I will link each commentary into a common theme for the day.

Micro worry When people are stressed past the limit of human endurance, they become micro worriers. It is worrying about worrying.

Corporate Psychopathy is not an illness The closest it gets to illness is the sickness of the people who are crushed and destroyed by it. The psychopaths are robustly healthy and don't know what the fuss is about.

Corporate Psychopathy Forum "The following link reads like all you ever wanted to know about corporate psychos but were too afraid to ask…". It is flattering to be quoted as a world expert on the subject. In my executive coaching practice, an understanding and appreciation of corporate psychopathy is at the heart of my executive coaching philosophy and approach. An executive coach who doesn't have an innate understanding of this corporate undercurrent cannot hope to improve the performance of his clients. This is the precise article referred to in the forum.

Six Sigma Professional Available for Consultation Mr Labour has an international reputation in the field of Six Sigma and Project Management and can ensure your Six Sigma program gains traction and stays on track.

Life Coaching Thoughts and Ideas There should always be a layer between what you write and you. Artistry be damned but at least you'll be saved.

Influential enough to be credible and credible enough to be influential There is no magic or secret to being a life coach. It just takes you to be the very best you can be but sometimes that is not good enough. You must be at least as good as the very best out there.

Crisis in a corporate environment Crisis in a corporate environment but is it a corporate crisis or your personal isolated unrelated crisis unfolding in a corporate environment?

Really unhappy people don't want to let go of their pain It is so comforting and defining. It provides a story, a point of reference, a structure, a past but no future.

Practice risk mitigation but only up to a point You do not need to base jump to introduce danger into your life. Everyday life is full of dangers especially to your mental health.

Brilliance mixed with deep humility and simplicity is a powerful sauce This a common theme of this web site but it works. Add hard work and you have an irresistible combination.

When not being one of the best is good enough He wasn't in that league, if he was he would have known he wasn't. It takes knowledge to realise how ignorant you are. You have to be smart to know how dumb you are or can be. The very best know and accept those areas why either by inclination, gifts or desire thay may not be very good at and concentrate on those areas which they can nail. There are some who are good, great even, at most things but that is no help as even there one has to choose as time creates a natural brake on polymaths.

Weakly to the city please Like lambs to the slaughter as corporates devour their children.

The only safety in a corporate environment is mediocrity That is, there is no safety in a corporate environment as mediocrity is not a journey, a starting point, a way point or a destination.

Energy with purpose. It is irresistible Strive for influence even when you have power. Strive for power even when you have influence.

What happens when people lose the plot in a corporate environment? They make great study subjects for executive coaches but they are also very destructive of the fabric that holds a corporate environment (the corporate culture if you will) together. They are a cancer that insidiously wears away the good and leaves behind a mess when they inevitably crash and burn.

Executive Coaching Retreat October 2006 A fantastic opportunity for a company to cloister 5 of their very best people to gestate their next brilliant product, service or strategy. This retreat is for the people who can make the most difference in the shortest possible time.

The higher he rose the better he became Greatness is patient, never trying to outrun the opportunity.

The mindset of a life coach Can you run 1500 metres in 60 seconds. As a life coach you need to be fast on your feet and be able to help the client quickly, almost immediately by knowing exactly what is going on and how to do something about it.

Disappointment Be disappointed every now and then, it means you are setting the bar for yourself, your people, your family and your company just beyond the current performance level. That is the only way to guarantee progress to the next level.

What is a leadership vacuum? Simply an opportunity. A chance to be active in a passive environment.

Major depression is a constant in corporates Poor performers are simply incompetent not sick. Great performers are affected the worst by major depression.

Life Coaching Case Study Only when you are comfortable with the client can you make sudden shifts in direction but even then it must seem and feel normal and logical.

One Day Coaching Program This is a great program for a small company whose management and people are just coming to grips with the new Industrial Relations environment in Australia and perhaps losing some much needed focus and needs to bring its people together once again and to row as a team without the distraction of the IR laws.

Poor performers Your customer knows the incompetence of your manager and as long as you perform everything is all right up to a point.

Small Business Tips and Techniques No. 02 Business development is not taking your eyes off the road, it is the road.

Small Business Tips and Techniques No. 01 Plan B should not be thought of as a 'failure'. Reducing your loss should never be thought of as a failure.

Corporate psychopaths Q&A Defensive/Aggressive psychopaths - soft people skills beautifully mimicked, underneath granite tough but nothing going on in the emotional space.

Psychopathy is never a good thing but it is not always a bad thing To be successful you must be emotionally fully engaged with the environment and the people in it.

Aviation Debate is not about efficiency v safety but just plain maintaining a standard of living When an aircraft comes in for maintenance, for the men this is essentially a cash cow and the longer they can keep it on the ground the longer they can milk it.

Testimonial Awesomework!. Truly an awe-inspiring web-site. Reading your articles have helped me to crystalize my thoughts on my second life-chance for success. Thank you so much!

Life Coaching Thoughts and Ideas A person in an organisation in crisis or a person in crisis in an organisation.

What is it like being a life coach? Life coaching is about the only profession I know where you have to be able to think like a CEO at the drop of a hat. You have to perform at an extremely high level for 1-2 hours for each client per session.

Seven Key Senses to Corporate Success Develop your Sense of Personal Chemistry and Projection - to exploit your personal attributes and attractiveness. Sex is remarkably present, pervasive even, in a corporate environment but so is psychopathy and death.

Life Coach Availability If you require a life coach at short notice, then please email me and let me know your requirement. I will endeavour to reply to you within 8 hours of your communication and meet you, if possible, within 24 hours. There is absolutely no additional charge for this service beyond the monthly fee.

Special Offer for New Year 2007 Three months life coaching for the price of two. Offer ends 15 March 07

Life coaching by real life coaches The knowledge gained from being a real world life coach is invaluable when it comes to knowing how to work with each client. This knowledge is not available from books or web sites. It must be gathered hour by hour. It helps if you are a quick learner.

Exploration of the search terms to find my web site Female psychopaths. A particularly dangerous and destructive animal. A perfect machine for annihilating the soul.

Life and Executive Coaching Ideas and Thoughts Part II Expecting perfection from yourself 24 x 7 x 365.

Corporate Survival not Success The keys to corporate survival in an ocean filled by great white sharks (corporate psychopaths) and plankton (mediocrity) and everything in between.

Failure in a Corporate Environment There are so many ways to fail that success is almost an accident of luck or fate but that is not the case.

Life and Executive Coaching Ideas and Thoughts Part I There is no point being so brilliant that nobody can work with you, keep up with you or even understand you.

That warm glow Part II How do you connect what you really want to do with the necessity/reality/demands of everyday life.

Situational Awareness Can save your life in a corporate environment.

Top 10 Email Safety Tips Treat email as a dangerous device or tool in the workplace. It is no less than a serious safety hazard.

Advice on how to end relationship with a sociopath This is by far the most popular page on this web site. This page has really struck a nerve out there.

Payback Australian Style Tuong Van Nguyen sinks the Singapore Government.

Beautiful but evil What is the motivation required to destroy people?

The beauty of great friendships What makes these tick? Is it chemistry or acceptance or a bit of both?

Barriers to Executive Coaching What is the real value of an executive coach?

Executive Coaching Approaches to Revenue Challenges Whose fault is it? Should we go back or forward? If we know one needs to go from the known to unknown then going back makes sense but in a way that is not about blame but about learning.

Lost that warm glow? How to re-discover it? What can you do about a stressful situation before it breaks you.

Process Improvement in a Vacuum Process improvement mandated from the top down. An exercise in futility?

Crime and Punishment in a Corporate Setting Overwork and its near fatal consequences.

Marketing support for new life coaches If you don't have your own web or your web site is ranked low in the search engines, use this web site to your advantage and benefit.

When to stay, when to go. It is important to keep in mind that what is emotional may not be real and what is real may not be emotional.

Corporate coaches as employees in a corporate setting In coaching leadership is side by side not from the front.

People who don't fit in corporate environments Ironically, even though a corporate environment is heartless and soulless the people who do have these scarce qualities can use them as currency. Clumsy people who don't fit are broke.

The Betrayal Is there life after betrayal by a life partner? What sort of life is that? Are you scarred for life or even scared for life?

Spring Clean. For the mind that is. The real purpose behind a diet and exercise program is not to lose weight or get fit but to learn a method that will lead to self-discipline allowing you to control and subdue your urges and passions.

Life Coaching Search Terms What search terms do people around the world use to find my web site? A playful slightly insightful exploration.

What can go wrong when everything is going so right? What happens when you start to act beyond your planning? What can go wrong when you 'wing it'?

Corporate narcissism in the internet age This is a sick person but they don't know it.

Out on a limb? Can you know beforehand when you might be out there before you get there?

Are suicides preventable? The danger signs to watch out for in yourself and others.

2006 High Performance How to create a high performing 2006 for yourself and your company.

Life Coach Available Did you need to speak to a life coach at short notice? No appointments necessary for coaching sessions Monday to Friday 9am-5pm in the Sydney, Parramatta and North Sydney CBD.

Corporate Coaching - Integration and Synergy My goal is to find similarities between entirely disparate disciplines.

Get busy over the holidays Xmas & New Year is the ideal time to get a major program of process improvement off the ground or get a major program or project back on track or king hit the competition with a brilliant product innovation or enhancement.

Re-structuring an organisation Why execute large, cumbersome and expensive restructures?

Retrenchment A soul destroying blow or life affirming opportunity? At first there is no opportunity just blind rage and hatred.

Can poets survive in a corporate environment? Is your living soul, your free spirit encased walled up alive, in corporate concrete?

Great leadership v poor leadership Leadership is not a skill hanging out there waiting to be acquired by all and sundry but a quality nurtured by a chosen few since birth and perhaps even beyond that in the womb.

Corporate Performance. Is it just a big act? Poor performers are not intentionally bad they just don't know how.

Corporate characters and types The personalities that inhabit the corporate nether world now have a type. Do you recognise anyone?

What are great life coaching web sites about? A useful life coaching web site is one which is refreshed continually as you live and learn and refreshing. You should be able to come back to it regularly like a favourite slipper or book and find familiarity and comfort and discover something new in the well known.

Executive Coaching for DODOs - An extract The qualities of a brilliant Executive Coach - there are no others.

Life Coaching for DODOs - An extract The key thing to appreciate about human memory is that, because it is encased in living matter, it can and does change over time. It is not immutable because the living matter changes, ages, matures, changes polarity, decays and dies around it.

What is an epiphany? Is it simply an earthly way of saying goodbye to a god inspired unnatural fear or is it a heavenly way of saying goodbye to a pure man made fear? It works on both levels magically and almost on its own accord once the wheels are set in motion. The setting in motion requires genius.

2nd World Make Your Own Burger Day 2nd October 2005 Press Release. A moment fixed in time where our thoughts and actions come together for the victims of the New Orleans storms.

The tyrant is dead, long live the tyrant On a basis of equals they are mute, speechless and dumb. They only find voice when using power to terrorise their people.

Develop multiple exit strategies but nail one There is no second chance, there is no 'I'll do it next time' there is only one time this time for all time.

In search of greatness How to reach the creative pinnacle and survive.

Female Sociopaths in the Workplace Modern workplaces dominated by female psychopaths are bestial, flee from them or die trying. If you work for one you know the true deep meaning of despair and horror in a modern setting.

The Warning Signs of a Potentially Disastrous Career Move If you're about to jump ship into the unknown, let me as an executive coach with 30 years experience in the Australian workplace cast my critical eye over your new job opportunity, job offer or contract. It may be the best $200 you have ever spent. Please call me on 0406 164 801 before you make any decision on your future.

Being just good enough is not enough There is no point in being just good enough as a worker, husband, mother, father, wife. If you have the capability to be great you should create the environment around you to enable the nascent greatness that is in all of us to thrive and prosper.

The Grind of Terrible Workplaces For you this is purgatory, a daytime nightmare but for others who see your light you are a joy for them, a precious resource, a wonderful friend, a mentor and coach. You bring an order to their chaotic world, you explain the unexplainable, you bring together disparate parts of a person's life into an integrated whole, you provide a world view, you provide a sanctuary, a dreamy oasis, a natural warmth, you are the path the light the signpost the cobblestones the molecules of your body provide the very atmosphere the very air they breathe.

Defeating obesity in a beautiful young woman The purpose of any obesity program is not to lose weight or weight loss is merely a byproduct of the program. The main purpose of the program, the only purpose of the program is to create new life long habits of regular exercise and improved diet. If it takes six months to inculcate this and not a gram lost, it is worth every single micro second carrying that excess baggage.

Change of Contact Details My new mobile number is 0406 164 801 or 61 406 164 801. I am available from 5pm to 9pm (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) in the Sydney CBD and other areas/times by arrangement.

3 BEDROOM HOUSE FOR RENT IN REVESBY, SYDNEY Only 5 minutes from schools, shops and public transport.

With mistakes, practice makes perfect Self belief lives on a sub strata of previous achievement and success and dare I say it the comeback after the misery of mistakes and disasters.

Obesity and young women There is no problem, what problem, whose problem, not my problem.

The right decision? Is there such a thing? There is no such thing as a right or wrong decision. There is only putting effort against whatever decision is made and making that decision work.

Life Coach Availability If you require a life coach at short notice in the Sydney CBD I am available from 6pm to 9pm (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday) in the Sydney CBD. Please leave me a short note with your requirements to arc24@ihug.com.au and your preferred day/time.

The people who have meant something to me in this life Some have left my life permanently, some have left this world permanently but all are very special people to me for all time.

Some thoughts on restructuring a large business Restructuring is about getting workers to change in some way, make do with less, with less resources, less time, less managers, less workmates. A big ask.

Thoughts on parting and other things Sometimes you have to get down on your hands and knees and thank the people who in life did you the most harm did the most damage exercised the most rotten influence over your destiny. Why? They are the ones that spur new to new effort to new glory without them you'd be stuck in a rut in your comfort zone. You have a lot to thank your enemies for. Shout their names loudly from the highest mountain and thank God you were interesting enough threatening enough to be entitled to be called one of their enemies. If you were a mediocrity they would not bother with your sorry ass.

In Memoriam It is just as important to know how to be loved, how to let oneself be loved as to know how to love, more perhaps. To allow oneself to be loved requires the highest degree of trust of another human being.

Grief as a result of a suicide Combine the two worst things than can happen to you and multiply it x 1000.

The pain of losing your best friend The lacerating, nagging, stab of discomfort in the pit of your stomach is telling you something. You love this person, there is no other explanation for it.

Know your bliss More than what turns you on, it is what you live for and eventually it might save your life in any case it is necessary for your continued sane survival.

Motivation - what does it take to get somebody motivated at work? Nothing. It has nothing to do with work.

Is life coaching just talk talk talk? Is a philosophy simply the sum or product of the words that describe it, embody it, explain it?

Who am I? A writer, consultant, advisor, speaker and presenter.

Ruminations on the death of Lisette Nigot Death at all costs.

Saying goodbye forever When words fail you. How to let go of that special person who has had a unique influence in your life.

Life Coach Availability If you require a life coach at short notice in the Sydney CBD - from Monday 13th June 05 I am available from 5pm to 9pm (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) in the Sydney CBD. Please leave me a short note with your requirements to arc24@ihug.com.au and your preferred day/time. If you book before 12th June 05 I will discount my fee by 50% and only charge $65 for a one hour session.

Executive Coaching in the raw When your suppliers fail to deliver, just whose problem is it? It is certainly not theirs, at least not theirs alone.

Et tu Brutus When people start lining up to stab you and fight each other to jump a place in the queue, you must know something is wrong with your style and approach.

Waste is good Waste is relative to your goal. If your goal is to have a good time, regular and expensive holidays, work when you need to, pay rent and move on as your heart desires, then all the time, effort and money you spend on this is not waste. It is a lifestyle.

Being made redundant in your 40s and 50s Are you destined for the scrap heap or your destiny of a brand new world for yourself? One is invented for you and the other you invent for yourself.

Conciliation and Mediation (CAM) Service for Estranged Parties A professional dispute resolution service driven by life coaching principles and aimed at reconciling feuding, warring parties that will mutually benefit from a resolution of their dispute.

Corporate Psychopathy Q & A Answers to a journalist in response to a request for an interview. If you would like to quote from this Q & A, just send me a short note.

Organisations in crisis Can anything be done for the people inside? This is not so much about executive health as about the health of ordinary people caught up in the lifecyle of extraordinary organisations and crushed.

Give every opportunity the greatest respect If it means really means something to you, you will not let it fail. The repercussions will be with you forever if you do.

Small business failure Don't let it happen to you. You may never recover.

Success is an anti-climax Not the journey to success but once it has been achieved the fruits of success are boring.

The lesson of suicide When the guitar gets out of tune from playing too hard, play on. Nobody will notice.

How to say goodbye You have to earn the privilege of saying goodbye. With strong friendships created and opportunities raised and realised. When the time comes to move on you have earned it.

Put something away for a rainy day? Bah humbug! Chase away rainy days. Create a virtual umbrella so you're inured to rain days.

Life Coach (0,0) Some thoughts on life coaching.

At a glance What can I do to help you really enjoy your time on this web site? Your timer here is precious to me so I would like you to relax and just go with it. You will find this web site unlike many other life coaching web sites is deeply personal and tries to get to the heart of the matter but guiding it at all times is not sentimentality but a piercing intellect.

Life Coach (0,0) My life coaching philosophy and manifesto.

Suicide Why? Suicide does not require one final grand overt act of parting with the world.

Executive Coaching Bon Mots Corporate life is a comedy or more correctly a tragi-commedy.

Corporate Psychopaths (CP) How big is the threat to community mental health? What is the hidden cost to the community?

How can organisations take advantage of exceptional behaviour either latent or occurring now? What can organisations do to increase the effectiveness of their best performers? Bring them together with their peers in a working village atmosphere. Forget office space cubicles which provide a breeding ground for office politics, they're a waste of people, time and resources.

False dawn or a guiding light? What is the model for exploring/exploiting peak performance in an organisation?

What is beyond achieving the performance envelope? The performance envelope is reaching the last camp before Everest itself. It is make or break time, something else now needs to kick in to make the last push a success. This something is beyond just mere preparation or mental and physical fitness and aptitude. It is being in tune with the gods, with the forces of evil inside us that tend to derail us at these critical moments and soothing and calming them.

False dawn or a guiding light? When is a light required and when is it just a mere accidental occurrence that one gets used to but shouldn't?

What is top end performance? Simply a genius who has his act together in that transitory moment in time.

Making sure you perform at your best on the night or the day as the case may be Make sure you will be most with these modest preparations.

The malaise with modern organisations - an Executive Coaching exploration What is wrong with most modern organisations? That requires so many management consultants, Six Sigma consultants, SOX/BASEL II consultants, process improvement and quality consultants, Executive Coaches to fix? Is the cure even worst than the problem?

Being one of the best An excursion into the realm of excellence reached by beauty, truth and hard work.

What are you waiting for? Good waiting v Bad Waiting.

Living with a sociopath - a life coaching perspective Living with a sociopath is pure masochism? What are some of the life coaching perspectives on sociopathy? A free web forum on ICQ. Call ICQ #671412 on Wednesday 18/5/05 at 10pm AEST.

What does it take to be clearly and strongly focused on the goals of your life? It takes great strength and courage to be successful. This means sometimes jettisoning those things and those people in our lives that detract from the path of success, from the journey. You sometimes have to be hard to others to be kind to yourself. There is no point to being kind to others and hard on yourself.

Understanding flashes of anger A life coach is a fitness coach for your life. Get fit by eliminating the waste caused by derailing flashes of pure anger.

The catastrophe of losing your father at an early age It is a loss that numbs, that stops the flow of blood in your body, that freezes the very breath in your lungs, stifles the cry in your throat, that stops your heart beating.

How to turn disaster into triumph It is a certainty that your current journey will come crashing down one day. If there is not that certainty in your life, then you are simply not living enough.

Finding an unusual person to assist and support you Finding someone of uncommon intelligence and regard for you is a miracle.

Executive Coach - a dream job? It takes the best of the best. What does it take to be an executive coach? Not a great one or an exceptional one just one. You must firstly have the confidence to mix it with some of the most intelligent people on the planet. That confidence must be built on substance, content not bluster or empty promises. Your confidence must come from years of delivery rather than talk. It takes many years of corporate experience to understand how they operate. A minimum of 20 years is required to be a credible, sharp, dynamic and intuitive executive coach. After all why should it take any less? It takes 20 years to become a great tennis player or track star or great cyclist or dancer.

LIFE COACHING PROGRAM FOR RETRENCHED EXECUTIVES AND SENIOR MANAGERS Have you considered providing Life Coaching to your senior executives and senior managers as part of a Restructuring and/or Retrenchment Program?

LIFE COACHING PROGRAM FOR RETRENCHED MIDDLE MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES Have you considered providing Life Coaching to your employees as part of a Restructuring and/or Retrenchment Program?

Life Coaching Special Offer If you engage me for one life coaching session (lasting 1 hour), you will get the next one (1 hour) free. This free offer is valued at $135. Please SMS me on 0406 164 801 or drop me an e-mail at arc24@ihug.com.au titled Life Coaching Free Offer with your first name/mobile#/preferred date/time for your first session. The location for your first session can be Sydney CBD or a location of your choosing in Sydney. The cost of your first session is $135, the next one is free. There is no more to pay and includes all support (SMS, E-mail, Mobile, ICQ) you may require between your 2 sessions. It is an ideal way to try life coaching without a large initial outlay.

Why is this web site rated No. 1 in the world (in Google) for the search terms Life and Executive Coaching? There is no other web site in the world devoted to Life and Executive Coaching quite like it. Why because it is a mixture of art, science and history all in the name and service of life coaching. It is more than a brochure about the service. In a sense it is the service. It provides enough self-help materials including the comprehensive tips and techniques for you to be able to help yourself at your convenience.

Who believes in you? What do you do if someone close to you, someone whose judgment you trust doesn't believe in you or doesn't believe in you in certain aspects of your life or work or business or personal life.

Beyond Expectations Be gifted, talented and humble, there is a strong connection between being gifted, humility and happiness. Being gifted but humble gives you something power alone cannot give you - deep and lasting influence and dare I say it love and respect.

Catastrophe, bankruptcy, penury, pauper, debt ridden, lost all your assets - what is left but death? How to recover from a mortal blow to your finances, to your expectations, to your dreams, to your pride, to your world view of yourself, to the bigness of you as you would always like to see yourself.

What is the subject of your internal conversation? When does the subject of your internal conversation become incessant, tedious, self-defeating, endlessly repeating, time wasting and defeatist?

Executive Coaching Retreat (ECR) in Mauritius in June, 05 A page dedicated to information about the purpose of the retreat, its program and what you can get out of it.

FREE INTRODUCTORY LIFE COACHING SESSION. Are you searching for the next wave? Well it's here, that revolution is life coaching.

Poetry by My Father - some weekend reading A journey within a journey - away from life coaching temporarily into the depths of suffering and pain. He passed away in July 92 but I find his words as stunning as the day he left me. Some interesting reading for a Sunday night waiting for the cruel dawn of Monday to break. The power of these words from the grave are remarkable.

What is globalisation? Simply reverse colonialism What is the importance of this modern phenomena for executive coaches, life coaches and their clients? The rapid pace of globalisation impacts your ability to survive long enough to provide you with the opportunity and time to introduce the changes required to reduce your cost base. You must introduce whatever radical measures are mandated (even up to and including head count reduction) to introduce the fibre and backbone of competitiveness to your business model. In your personal, professional and business activities, you know you will face daily pressures (and fires to put out) on your cost base, on your client list, on your product and service mix in short on the sustainability of your current business model. You may not have any time to devote to anything like what is required to wrench the business from its present course, rethink and execute the change to the strategic footprint and re-design required to survive and become a global player.

Life Coaching Program for an Obese Beautiful Young Woman A tragedy in the making. Not sympathy but action! With the right direction and positioning you can and will turn it around. Just effort and desire to lose weight is not enough. If it was, there wouldn't be a problem.

Fear of failure that stops you or the failure of fear to stop you. Which is it going to be? Ensure you have a genius for a friend or a life coach who understands you and can help you out of the doldrums quickly when you make these inevitable mistakes.

Remember my good friends now gone They are inside me and the best have become me and if there is any justice in the world I them.

The Seven Pillars of the Executive Coaching Retreat (ECR) in Mauritius in June, 05 More walking less talking. Accent on personal change. Centre of Excellence (COE) for Executive Coaching. No strategies no tactics no politics -- holistic.

Reshaping and restructuring your organisation for 21st century survival and prosperity The main theme of the Executive Coaching Retreat (ECR) in Mauritius in June, 05 will be to survive not to 2050 but to 2010. In these difficult times of rising commodity prices, massive competition from the Chinese and Indian economies and western economies facing growth slow-downs as a result, where will your company be in 10 years time. Oblivion if you don't radically and fundamentally begin a change process right now. The ECR is a complete and self-contained restructuring program which delivers immediate bottom line results.

Is Life and Executive Coaching dangerous? Is there a trend, a backlash against the life and executive coaches of the world. Has the demand for coaches in the western world peaked just as demand in India and to a lesser extent China begins to take off? Will those markets also become saturated (or wise up) one day? What are the dangers of life and executive coaches? Can one develop an unhealthy dependence on a coach as a cure all, a quick fix and a boost for your self-confidence? Can one become over reliant on a life and executive coach?

The Top 5 Life Coaching Web sites in the World. Choosing the top 5 life coaching web sites out of thousands of life coaching web sites is ultra tough but I have had a go at it and I still cannot nominate my No. 1. Suggest your No. 1 the only thing is it mustn't be your own site. I am looking for original content, original thinking on life and executive coaching, content rather than form and I am not looking for sites that are product and service brochures. They must provide information that is life coaching, is readily usable and accessible. The writing must be first class.

The no need to wait - buy now commercials. The people who work in consumer finance organisations want you to buy now rather than wait and earn your right to buy. These light commercials are supported by a phenomenal amount of science in the consumer marketing area. Marketing is one of the modern world's most highly mechanised and statistically focused occupations. There is no gut feel about it. So what chance a poor consumer to resist the lure of easy "money"? The no wait approach is absolutely anathema to the life coaching credo which focuses on waiting, patience, effort and hard work, saving and finally earning the right to possess what you desire. Taking out a loan to get something you want takes the fun out of life.

Executive Coaching Retreat (ECR) in Mauritius in June, 05 and December, 05. The Keynote of the ECR will be the management of operational risk using such approaches as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), Basel II and Six Sigma. These approaches are generally applicable to large companies world-wide not just those in the Banking and Finance industries. Poor management of operational risk lead to poor products and services which enrages senior executives and disenchants loyal customers, a powerful combination for business to deal with. The way it is dealt with usually leads to even poorer management of operational risk now operating in a panic stricken blame rich environment.

Freelance Strategist and Writer. Do you need to transform your internal and external communication into something that is structured, well written, easy to read and up to date. Do you need to transform your ideas into good copy. Suitable for use in your strategy and future product announcements.

Quitting corporate life. A message for those hapless denizens of the corporate minefield. When quitting make sure you quit the right thing. All too often people quit corporate life then realise the problem they thought they had left behind coming along with them so that it was a personal problem all along masquerading as a work problem.

Life Coaching Short Message Service SOS. Gilbert Labour introduces the Life Coaching Short Messaging Service SOS for fast convenient 24 hour life coaching support and advice. In a space of 30 days you can turn your life around but only if you receive daily life coaching encouragement and support. Now for $1 per day create the life you want in 30 days. The basis of the service is a 10 point strategic plan that will deal with each of the most common life coaching problem areas and issues faced daily by life coaching clients around the world.

Gilbert Labour's Life Coaching Message for Australia Day 2005. Gilbert Labour, a leading life and executive coach, explores the fundamental and elemental relationship between change leading to the future reworked and reinvented and life coaching. When the economy drives so much cultural and other iconic behaviour it is difficult to make a rational decision about your personal future without it. The capability for change is linked inextricably with the ability to fund the movement for change. But there is change you can make that is free.

The relief you feel from giving up something that really matters to you is false. The relief actually forms a vacuum and as nature abhors a vacuum and it is filled, in time, by the most vile and horrendous feelings of regret and failure your mind can mount against you. If you make your mind your enemy you have a very formidable opponent.

The Life Coaching Association of Australia (LCAA) Mr Labour is in a unique position to lead the founding of this organisation having for the past two years the No.1 rated web site world-wide in Google for Life and Executive Coaching. Currently these are 1,300,000 other web sites listed. Mr Labour's web site is a world class resource for coaches and their clients. Please download a membership application form. Please complete (it is a Word document) and return to arc24@ihug.com.au.

Life Coaches Without Borders. Mr Labour, a leading Mauritian born life and executive coach, pledges AU $1000 in aid to Mauritius and affected islands Tsunami victims. Gilbert Labour in reaction to the Tsunamis that have hit South-East Asia in such a catastrophic fashion will personally visit the affected areas (he is Mauritian born) using his local knowledge and distribute this aid.

Thanks for yr site. I was scanning the web fr information on life coaching as a possible adjunct to my new career as a trainer. Yr web site fascinated me as a rather raw view of a person through a web page window. I felt that I knew such a lot about you after reading for a while, and yet I could not remember your name, and I felt the need to imagine you physically. Weird stuff for me - don't often get that from the web. Thanks. Not sure why. Just felt there was something refreshing and honest about yr site. It has a nice chaos that accurately reflects the human condition.

A Christmas and New Year Message from Gilbert Labour. Do people think of you or do you think of yourself (with justification) as being exceptional, outstanding, phenomenal or magisterial?. Set your goal for 2005 high and aim to be the best in the world at what you do and try to be a world authority in your subject, in your sphere, in your realm.

A man in his forties holding it together is a miracle. Anything that distracts him from the main game - which is to be stable, happy, productive and effective - is to be ruthlessly eliminated from his life.

An obese young woman is a tragedy in progress. A set of key tips to beat your obesity. Got no more than 30 seconds to spend reading this article? This is for you. There is no way you can treat your obesity problem with 30 seconds of your time. Thinking that you can is madness and probably the cause of some of the problems that have led you to this point. You will have to read the rest of this article for this to help you. But note this is not the whole story, you still have to supply the other 99.99%.

Move on fast from failures but move on faster from successes. But before you can move on from success, you must create the success from scratch, from nothing, from emptiness. For some people this means fundamentally working alone in the crucible of genius. Life Coaching Tips and Techniques No. 20 provides the circumstances when going it alone is not only legitimate and warranted but essential and a prerequisite for success.

Flight from Reality to Obesity. Excerpts from my book Life Coaching for DODOs. A coach is a role model and a practical and thought leader and one who is obese cannot work with an obese person to conquer obesity. It is just not a credible relationship. Mr Labour will be available on ICQ (671412) between the times of 22:00 and 23:00 AEST on Monday 6th December, Monday 13th December and Monday 20th December to discuss his life coaching approaches to beating obesity. No individual cases will be discussed and the forum will be in general terms. This forum is free to anyone in the world who is interested.

A life coach can be thought of as a midwife. The difficult gestation and birth of new ideas and direction we mostly do alone I think. Sure a life coach can be thought of as a midwife for creative thoughts and ideas but it is the creator who does all the work.

New Year's Resolutions for 2005. By their very nature New Year's resolutions are set in an atmosphere of fun and excitement and are usually achieved quite quickly (within 1 month or so) or not at all. Unfortunately for most, it is not at all.

We see the past through the prism of today. Perceptions of past success or failure is determined by the current situation. To improve your past, improve your current situation with life coaching.

One-on-One Executive Coaching Retreat and Workshop in Mauritius. 7 Day One-on-One Executive Coaching Retreat and Workshop in Mauritius conducted by Gilbert Labour, one of Australia's leading Life and Executive Coaches. See enclosed program for details. Additional information on the Executive Coaching Retreat. Please find additional information on major life and executive coaching themes to be covered.

What is the difference between a strategic and a tactical approach? None whatsoever. Be your own Field Marshal and ordinary soldier all at once. The best tactical approaches metamorphose (if successful) eventually into an overall strategic (big picture) approach and the best strategies can be implemented piecemeal using a tactical approach without over-committing of one's resources.

Executive Coaching Approaches to Politics II. This seems a popular topic and these are some more thoughts on the subject. If you thought Cicero was about politics in the context of government or even a corporate setting, you were mistaken. It is about lessons learnt for life which is a huge political game undertaken by millions of pseudo parliamentarians every day.

Editorial and Design Service. Dedicated to excellence in written communications. Tame the creative spirit and turn in into a repeatable quality process.

The Big Getting Bigger. A Life Coaching exploration of obesity and the five journeys of obesity, all equally difficult and fraught with danger. Obesity is not a food problem but an emotional and self-image problem.

Life Coaching Top 10 Areas to focus on. Make sure an area or a number of related areas are always working for you and is rock solid.

Life Coaching approach to dealing with a personal crisis. Do nothing. Why? Because dealing with a crisis usually means gathering some information, analysing that information and then acting on that analysis. That's the worst thing you can do because you will be in reactive mode and your enemies who precipitated that crisis in the first place will be waiting for your reactive response and put you in a worst position that you would be in if you did nothing. Shock after a personal crisis serves a purpose. It forces you to stop, reflect, do nothing and leave the pain inside. It has to be deep inside and left there for any good to come out of it. The revelation will come but only after deep pain, rejection, despair and disappointment has been experienced. After the revelation will come the realisation that there is only one enemy - you. Hence the reason why you do not attack your enemies straight away after the first blow. It is you that needs the remediation. It is you that needs to change.

DO THE Ks LOSE THE Ks - a life coaching exercise program centering on running and preparation of the right platform for running. Losing weight is easy not hard, it is starting that is hard. When you start you are at the top of the mountain and from then on it is a slope.

Life Coaching Gift Box - an ideal christmas, new year, birthday or other special occasion gift personalised for that special someone or just for you.

If you get some help, support, assistance or benefit from visiting this web site, please click on my esteemed life coaching colleagues above. They can contribute to your success too. Thank you.

Life Coaching 101. When is a home problem not a home problem and when is a work problem not a work problem? The complexity of unraveling this conundrum discussed. When a work problem manifests itself as a personal/home problem you have two problems to solve not one.

Welcome to My Store. The main product on sale here is the CD Life Coaching The First Forty Years. This CD provides a vivid and vigorous introduction to life coaching. It forms the basis for a series of life coaching programs devoted to the first 50 years of life. This covers each decade in succession and also covers tips and techniques for use at appropriate times and occasions.

Executive Coaching Approaches to Politics. Make the Misery, Torment and Despair of Losing - your constant companion, colleague, ally, associate and coach.

Project Management Approaches for Executives using the medium of Executive Coaching. Project Management has its own set of strong principles and various schools of practice built up over a number of years. Similarly for executive coaching but much less so. An Executive Coaching session that focuses on not just business strategy but the implementing of these strategic and business related approaches using the principles of project management closes the circle. There are some other benefits of this approach to Executive Coaching (see below).

Are life coaching or executive coaching fees tax deductible? This is the Australian experience. My comments from a life and executive coaching perspective rather than from a taxation consultant perspective (which I am not). It seems to make a connection between executive coaching (as an enabler?) and project management (as the doing?) for some reason.

Words of Wisdom 4U. A collection of motivational thoughts,stories,quotes and poems!

Executive coaching network UK based international association of personal and business coaches

Mind Tools Stress Management Techniques - These articles will help you to manage the stress in your life.

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Coaching Expectations. There are or should be expectations set in a coaching relationship and they should be set early in that relationship. But is that necessarily true? A convincing argument can be made for the opposite. In a coaching relationship there are no nor should there be expectations set.

Coaching and Fear. Fear is a paradoxical subject with immense contrasts. The nature of fear or is it the fear of nature? It is in our evolutionary makeup to fear so why is it such a problem in coaching?

Difference between mentor and coach. Is a coach also a mentor? Is a mentor also a coach? Are they separate approaches? Used in different contexts? Some food for thought.

Virgin Atlantic Offers Upper Class Passengers the Feel Good Factor. Virgin Atlantic is offering its upper class passengers life coaching. Great innovative use of life coaching. But you don't have to pay first class fares to talk to a first class life coach. This web site is all the great life coach you need written in easy to use style with lots of tips and techniques.

Life Coaching Fundamentals and the Retreat from the service excess. Once you remove the "in" element of any service such as a mobile phone (call it vogue or fashion or must have) - you remove 80% of the cost of anything and are left with the 20% of the value to you. So the question is should you pay $100 for something where the value to you is only $20. Evidently no but there are other factors at play as discussed. Once you pare down the value of anything (to you) down to 20% of its cost you are one step closer to realising a more productive use of your time and money.

Life and Executive Coaching Search Terms. An occasional review of search terms used to find this web site.

Professional Support Group for Unemployed Professionals. Gilbert Labour, a Life and Executive Coach based in Sydney, Australia announces a support group for unemployed professionals.

Annihilation of Creativity or the Tyranny of 100,000 Spreadsheets. A white paper outline that advocates selective roll-back of IT outsourcing deals world wide to deal with the problem of sparking, identifying, fostering, mentoring and coaching for creative outcomes in large organisations. Creating an internal group with its own superlative IT&T capability, creative geniuses and product driven zealots is a development in the right direction. Outsourcing of the IT&T capability in this instance is the death knell of product and service focused creativity.

Static v Dynamic Goals. Is there a difference? Does it matter? Are goals the enemy? Are we fixated too much on them especially life coaches? Should there be goal-less life coaching? Can life coaching be purely defensive?

Life Coaching cannot commence if any aspect of your life is out of control. Keys to stabilising your situation. Accept that no learning takes place unless the pain of failure is intense, immense, unrelenting, strongly negating self worth and deeply disturbing. It must be a strong spur to humility. Without these elements it will just wash off.

Losing Weight Gilbert Labour Style. A kernel of truth buried inside a piece of fun.

Turning Dreams and Visions into Reality. How to turn a 35,000 feet dream into reality using the glue of everyday life. An intelligent approach using life coaching to work with the day to day and the routine to make dreams come true.

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Disaster at some point in our life is predictable, inevitable even but is it preventable?. Can we make it through life without any disasters? Perhaps we can say here that you have not lived if you have not made catastrophic mistakes. But do you need to stop to live to prevent yourself from making at least one catastrophic mistake in your life. Most people repeat the same mistakes multiple times before they learn.

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A review of the key search terms used by people seeking life and executive coaching services, advice and products. For example, executive media coaching (I think this is about coaching company executives how to work with and use the media effectively or something like that. I think this is a bit misguided as the media is its own untamed beast and no executive no matter who can tame it or use it unless of course they own the media source itself! QED) I don't as much use or tame the press as work with it to produce stories that have a hook (I have three examples of this in Australian media).

Executive Coaching is more than brilliance it requires emotional stability and strength. If you keep sending a good car on a road and it repeatedly falls into pot holes do you blame the car or the road? When you stop blaming the car and take ownership of the road, you're on your way to understanding what it takes to be a brilliant and emotionally strong Executive Coach.

Literals --->>> Analogists --->>> Alliterationists --->>> Metamorphists --->>> Mixed Metamorphists --->>> Poets --->>> Geniuses --->>> God. A great coach has an instinctive feel for this classification and a deep understanding of each of these types and how to use this knowledge to achieve outstanding coaching outcomes in the shortest period of time. A coach can teach rapidly by cutting out the inconsequential. Knowing the difference between the inconsequential and the consequential takes a great coach of infinite power combined with subtlety and humility.

Coaching is an act of pure love. A great coach has a certain ethereal quality that is a sum of all the qualities outlined here. What this sum looks like, feels like to an outsider is like being touched by a god.

Abdication of the Heart. Giving oneself totally to someone else, is it an act of self-less generosity or recklessly irresponsible of one's own safety?

World Make Your Own Burger Day Press Release. A moment fixed in time where our thoughts and actions come together.

How to reconcile your life balance sheet. What are you balancing? On which side do each belong? What value do they have? When do you do it? Who does it with you? What can you expect out of it?

WHERE IS THE SANITY IN THIS-THE WORLD WONDERS An Open Letter to Vladamir Putin. This is no longer about a war between the opposing forces. This is about two peoples that need to come together to resolve the situation. The people must be given the right to speak as they are the ones doing the suffering here. Russian leaders have a habit of making their own peoples suffer now has come the time to disengage the apparatus of force and begin to create a climate of dialogue, friendship and frankness. Call To Action. I intend to make 3 October 2004 World Make Your Own Burger Day. On that day make your own burger and the money you save between the burger you make (say for 50 cents) and for which you can buy it (say $3) donate to your favorite children's charity and if you so wish advise them to donate your contribution to the children victims of the 3 September 2004 hostage incident. Don't know how to make your own burger? Here is my favourite recipe.

A partnership is the toughest form of co-operation between two people to make work. Why? Read on.

Reasons for the Poor Performance of the Group in Executive Retreat Programs. The group dynamic is a powerful force if harnessed and controlled but it can go awfully wrong when you consider that in a group of executives you will have all types of personalities that each possesses every other's self-destruct button. This is the price for raw power. Part of an executive coaching study running in the Portal.

What is the difference between power and influence? Influence is the earned right to make changes in your life and the privilege and natural invitation to make changes in the life of others. But there is no influence without power and no power without influence. Influence is a very delicate thing built on solid bedrock.

Advertise on my Web Site. If you want to advertise on my web site, please drop me a line. Your advertisement should preferably be a banner that changes with time, is interesting/entertaining and advertises your brand.

Do ethics matter?. Letter to web statistic company placing ads from major corporates on my small business web site. WHY WHY WHY. Why are you running ads from major corporates on my one person small business web site where I am seen to be tacitly supporting them? I am sure these billion dollar businesses would not be supporting me for free so why am I supporting them for free? In life there must be a two-way exchange of goodness. It is only just, fair and equitable.

Ginger to Garlic. "Great life coaches are born into families that have a wonderfully rich and caring emotional life. Gilbert Labour." I'm not sure how you came to this conclusion, or which planet you happen to live on, But I couldn't disagree with you more. Ginger. Follow this link for my response to Ginger.

Every Othello has his Desdemona. What makes this situation tragic is that the seeds of the destruction are derived from the protagonist himself. Danton's arrogance and popularity/charisma made him dangerous to Robespierre who had him executed.

Business as Art. You may not associate business and the art of writing together but the connection between great poetry, prose, aphorisms and a business letter is seminal. This is especially so if the letter is to the CEO or MD or Director of a large company. This is an example of such a letter written to the Chairman of a large company which has undergone 117 iterations to get it perfect. The work/art involved in creating/crafting/perfecting such a letter is part of an executive coaching study running in the Portal. Update: This example has finally been perfected and sent after iteration 138. Part of the process involved in great work/art is letting it go.

Southern Africa Soccer Development Program (SASDP). A program for exceptionally talented but troubled young soccer players between the ages of 16 and 18. Apply in person to get into the program. It combines financial and life coaching support in one support and development program to get your brilliant soccer career back on track.

What are you looking for? Perhaps a better question is what might you find here? Advice to turn your life around, salvation, forgiveness, moving forward after being blocked for 10 years. I think that's overestimating the impact of a web site but you can find here some of the reasons why people think they want to come here. This is based on an analysis of the search terms used to find this web site. As this web site is rated No. 1 in www.google.com currently for the words Life and Executive Coaching I thought this was a relevant bit of neighbour navel gazing and fun.

Tips to prepare an executive coaching proposal for a Small to Medium Business (SMB) Owner. What are the keys to preparing a killer, devastating and incredibly compelling executive coaching proposal for a small to medium business owner? If you want a Mt Everest like executive coaching challenge this is it. A executive coaching study running in the Portal.

Realistic Life Coaching Expectations. You have to come to life coaching with realistic and achievable expectations based on your personal achievements to date, your capacity and capability even considering its untapped potential and what your innate physical, intellectual and spiritual gifts are. Life coaching excels at working with raw material and fashioning excellence out of exceptional raw material and just sheer hard work. It cannot create if there is nothing there to create with, it cannot work if there is nothing there to work with and it cannot excel when there is no untapped potential there to excel.

The Wrong Journey. When you're in the wrong job, wrong relationship, wrong house and wrong support structure with no mentors or coaches and relying on alcohol and illicit drugs then you're a lone traveler in a endless land. A life coaching study running in the Portal.

The Almost Impossible. If you feel you have no clear goals in your life and you feel your life stagnating there is only one way to get you moving again and that is to make a list of the Top 20 Almost Impossible the top 20 things you find almost impossible to do. There is nothing like giving yourself a target to get you moving again. A life coaching study running in the Portal.

Corporate Survival Kit, an Executive Coaching Journey. A free course and program running from the Portal covering the essential requirements for surviving and indeed thriving in the corporate environment. An executive coaching study running in the Portal. This covers understanding when you're in above your head and how to get out and start thriving.

What is a business coach?. People visiting my web site are often asking this question. A business coach works with the front line staff and managers to improve the way they interface to their stakeholders, primarily their customers and the way they do business in terms of their culture and approach. Their reputation matters and improving it is critical to future goals such as increasing market share, developing innovative quality products and services more cheaply and quickly and then delivering those product and services even cheaper still.

What is the current capability and reach of this life coaching business? It goes without saying that this web site is probably the most useful life coaching web site in the world in that it not only provides the usual information about life coaching services and products but it is a guide in a self-help fashion for people willing to spend the time researching the information on this web site (400+ pages) pertaining to the service itself and service delivery. This web site can be used to coach oneself.

Outsourcing of personal services for busy executives. We will act as the single point of contact (SPOC) to all your third party personal service providers and provide coordination and administration services.

Anatomy of Failure. What are the characteristics of failure and indeed its corollary success? To know Cain is to know Able. Do you believe you know it all in your line of business or in your life. If so, then you're heading for a future catastrophe. Humility is so hard to be but essential for those who have a lot to be humble about. That is most of us.

Memo to Person in Florida, Boca Raton, United States. Using the search terms Easy Ways to End Your Life in www.google.com. STOP. THINK. REFLECT. DO NOT ACT. Follow this link for further advice.

Current problems are only past problems deferred. Future problems are merely current problems deferred. There is no reason to consult a life coach if you have no intention of doing anything about your current situation or your life in general especially if you are perfectly happy being in your current comfort/discomfort zone.

Life Coaches are Management Consultants of the Mind. A life coach is paid by the hour and each hour charged must be seen by the client to be an effective use of their resources. There are many alternative uses a client can put his money towards and for life coaching to be up there as a choice perhaps even the no.1 choice some of the time and relevant at all times takes a great life coach to quickly articulate for someone the return on investment (ROI) of an investment in life coaching.

Coaching Vision and Mission Statement. What are our aims and goals? How do we propose to achieve these? The vision of Tarmace Pty Ltd is to be a world thought leader in life and executive coaching principles, approaches, practices, methods, tools and techniques. It aims to do this by using this web site as an enabler of thought and discussion about life and executive coaching.

Free Life Coaching Session on ICQ. This particular ICQ session is a general forum that anyone in the world can attend and ask questions about life coaching, executive coaching and becoming a life and executive coach. It will last for one hour and will take place Tuesday and Thursday AEST 10:00pm - 11:00pm. Please invite yourself to ICQ# 671412. It's that simple. Follow this link to find out what time that is in your part of the world.

Technology and Life Coaching - A Synergy?. Does technology usage make sense? In coaching situations? In coaching support situations? Is the use of video conferencing, video phones, SMS gateways, WIFI hotspots and wireless technology generally applicable in a coaching situation?

Executive Coaching For Politicians. Politicians recognise and realise that the way to the top is lined with many dead bodies, some of their own doing. But intelligent politicians realise that having on board their campaign, their camp, their ministry a highly intelligent and practical Executive Coach could meaning getting to the top quicker, with less (though still some) dead bodies and with more alliances and associations intact. A crucial advantage in the political numbers game.

Successful Executives Kill Themselves. I have known of Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in the eighties weighed down with four or five suitcases of files and associated work and readings on their way home every night and more on the weekends. This particular CEO I have in mind actually died of cancer shortly after retiring (which they did earlier on the grounds of ill health). This type of stress is not treated by pills but by fundamental lifestyle changes and choices.

New Life Coaching Service Model - All Inclusive Platinum Service. One new low totally all inclusive monthly fee ($400 AUS) - currently this is $500 AUS. Saving $100 AUS per month. No contracts whatsoever, pay as you go month by month. Start when you want, stop when you want. No questions asked. No need to furnish more than your first name. No notes taken during any sessions and no personal identifying details asked for, required or noted down. Coaching can take place exclusively by phone and/or internet but it is preferred that an initial one on one session take place but this is not essential.

The Primal Fear of Coaching or Living For the Moment. Life and executive coaching is not for those who fear success and succeeding in their own name, in their own right and on their own terms. A fear of success mixed with effective life coaching will drive you insane as a tidal wave meets an immovable object. Coaching is for those individuals who understand their fears will melt away as they approach it and that it only takes a moment longer to hold on to the fear than it takes to let go. It is in that incandescent searing moment that the fear is conquered. It stings for a moment then disappears forever. Are you ready to live for that moment?

The Best Getting Better. Life and executive coaching is about working with people who are the best or consider themselves the best or have expectations they will one day be considered one of the best. I work with these people and make them exceptional, brilliant performers capable of magisterial work of the highest quality and merit. If you are the best or think you can be the best then I would like to hear from you. Whatever your field we can enhance and make you go further and achieve more. There is no limit to your self belief provided it is backed up not just by sheer hard work, for that is merely the minimum price of entry, but if you also have talent and raw potential then you are a prime candidate for high performance coaching.

Life Coaching is a metamorphosis for only the very best current and potential performers. Only the most intelligent and aware people use coaching voluntarily. Are you one of them? Will you make the next six months the most super charged of your life, your body, your relationships, your career, your business, your contribution to society. Are you prepared for life altering change?

Annihilation of Creativity or the Tyranny of 100,000 Spreadsheets. A paper outline that advocates selective roll-back of IT outsourcing deals world wide to deal with the problem of sparking, identifying, fostering, mentoring and coaching for creative outcomes in large organisations. Creativity cannot be created, cannot be mandated, cannot be created by law or statutory authority. The best an organisation can do for creativity is to create the conditions that foster it. Creating an internal group with its own superlative IT&T capability, creative geniuses and product driven zealots is a development in the right direction. Outsourcing of the IT&T capability in this instance is the death knell of product and service focused creativity.

Press Release Preparation for Small to Medium Businesses (SMBs). A press release forces you to sit down and formulate exactly what is different, special, interesting or newsworthy about you, your product or service. Unfortunately if you do it, it will either be overblown or understated. To seek help from a PR firm might be overkill. Now there is a much cheaper alternative. Does effective business writing work? Well you're reading this aren't you?

Guidance for Executive Coaches. Situational opportunities and scenario analysis for executive coaching. There are eight (8) presentations altogether. Four scenarios are canvassed and each scenario has two presentations. One to guide the executive coach as he prepares for the coaching session and the other to use, if he so wishes, as the presentation to the client or to guide him as he coaches the client.

Sh_t Happens. Planning to be you. Everything that happens to you is important in understanding your potential, your potential that can be realised, your expected reach and your dream and wish fulfillment. Every intelligent, alive, aware and on the ball person in the world should (and probably already does) have a strategic, tactical and day to day view of themselves, totally integrated into a big picture that makes sense and that they are comfortable with totally in all its aspects.

Great Leaders Born or Made. SOS (Substance over Style) Leadership. What does it take to be a great leader? What is great leadership? What does great leadership require? What does great leadership not require? How does Executive Coaching contribute to identifying and working with potential future great leaders? Leaders in politics, industry, business, the arts, sciences, government, the corporate world, non government organisations, charities. Leaders are everywhere. What makes them so? Is a title just about enough?

An Executive Coach in a company in trouble is an endangered species. How does one go about coaching an executive or even a small business owner in a business that is in trouble? Are there protocols for dealing with out of control and highly stressed individuals (which they normally are in a thriving company) but which danger of the extinction of the company renders more acute.

PMSA 2004 in South Africa. Why am I going to South Africa? I am going to South Africa to introduce a wider audience to my Executive Coaching approaches and also to provide a vote of confidence and support to what is happening in South Africa and the fundamental changes required. An Executive Coach walks the talk and my going to South Africa in the face of comparative danger provides ample evidence of my willingness to work with leaders where required to provide a favourable outcome even in the face of the most difficult circumstances and danger, which is the essence of Sane Project Management (SPM). The purpose of SPM is to introduce change in the most insane and dangerous of environments where corporate madness and out of control organisations thrive over the casualties of intercine warfare.

Three wins from 64 starts is always hard to get enthusiastic about. Not learning from repeated failures. In some cases no matter how prolonged the failure, how prolonged and deep the pain, how abject the failure these is no learning and the same learned catastrophic behavior is repeated over and over again in the faint hope luck that there will be a different outcome this time, it will only take the 65th start for the win to occur. This type of non learning is at the heart of life coaching problems. When these learned failures and required failure behaviours is repeated with no consideration for the multiple failure outcome then the habit becomes entrenched and extremely difficult to target and root out. By the way at its 65th start the horse in question ran 4th. Out of the money and ready for pasture I think at least for a 7 year old horse.

EXECUTIVE COACHING - THE PATH TO EXECUTIVE HEALTH. Solutions for dealing with executive health before it becomes a life and death issue. Corporate death is a type of renewal and manuring of the corporate environment but does it need to be done over your prone and dead body? This is probably the easy part it is the long and lingering death throes within your own self knowing that the outcome is inevitable no matter what you do. It is that realisation of the inevitable consequence once you start a 35,000 feet fall to the bottom that provides the terror component and turns this situation into a one of good v tyranny. This is the modern version of the tyranny of the Committee for Public Safety. Robespierre rides again.

GRIEF DISBELIEF SHOCK PAIN. Dealing with death. Death that affects someone who is key to one's continued happiness survival even. Death that occurs suddenly inexplicably without explanation without a farewell how does one begin the reconciliation process?

USERS OF LIFE COACHING SERVICES. Do you sometimes wonder who uses these services in real life? Do you think people who really need help use these services? Then you would be wrong.

RESTORING EXECUTIVE HEALTH AND SANITY - AN APPROACH. There are no easy answers to restoring and maintaining executive health but this is a theoretical and practical approach to managing and maintaining the health of project managers, one of the most stressed out corporate professions. Please download the presentation and use for your own needs. There is no explanatory text with the presentation but there is a dialogue with some slides.

EXECUTIVE HEALTH & SUCCESS - AN OXYMORON? There are so many people out there who are searching for the executive health nirvana. There is no such magical space. Executive health is not something to be trifled with. Lack of focus on it can cause serious mental and physical illness and can result in death. But is chronic stress the price to pay for continued executive success and achievement?

Welcome Haere mai Bienvenue Willkommen Bienvenidos Benvenuto Kalos orisate Tervetuloa Witajcie. Welcome to all my visitors from around the world especially to the New Zealanders, Australians, English and Canadians. You are most welcome to visit, read and take away any material you like for your own benefit and personal growth. If you are using this material for your work and university studies, please seek my permission for its use.

Goodbye Easter 2004. Now what? Post Easter time is time for a stocktake? Where are we? Is it where we want to be or wanted to be on Jan 1 04? What risks have we taken in the last four months? When was the last time you felt the adrenalin rushing in your body?

Easter Blues. Why is Easter a time of introspection and contemplation sometimes also sadness and depression? How do you conquer the Easter sadness? How does one use the holiday time gainfully to setup for resolution not despair?

Executive Coaching Training Program. Fast Track to Becoming an Executive Coach in 3 Months. If you're already a top corporate performer with line, operational and project management experience matched by training and relevant qualifications you could be on the fast track to becoming one of the world's most in demand professionals right now, a highly paid and in demand, worldwide, Executive Coach.

DEBT COLLECTING or how not to accrue debts your body can't repay. Do you find a rainy Sunday afternoon helpful for introspection? Do you operate sometimes beyond the tolerances of your body? Just to meet a deadline or to just get you over the line? This program understands the aftermath of this type of on the edge behavior and shows you how to not accrue debts your body can't (doesn't want to and shouldn't have to) pay but still get the job done or the goal accomplished.

Next week for discussion in the Portal. These topics will be run in a collaborative fashion using ICQ and MSN Messenger. The age of experience or the experience of age. A discussion of the mechanism behind lessons learnt. When is leaving, walking out, quitting, getting the hell out of there the right thing to do. Stalin worked closely intimately with a number of people then killed them. How to stop those who you have stepped over in order to fulfill your ambition and destiny coming back to haunt your success. How to remove the shadows from your success.

This week for discussion in the Portal. These topics will be run in a collaborative fashion using ICQ and MSN Messenger. Learning to fail rather than failing to learn. Sometimes a failure is more valuable than an uninterrupted period of success. This session will show you how to learn to fail. Program a failure in your life as a valuable learning exercise. Failure is brilliant for those who learn from it. Fail now and never cease to succeed. We also be discussing the Life Coaching Portal as an appliance of the millennium. A plug in plug out solution which allows the client to log in, tune in, get what they want and log out again quickly and with no fuss.

Coaching Services and Products Preparation Session.This session will concentrate on the Life Coaching Portal, the most popular link on this web site containing perhaps 100 links in total. It will also provide general information required to make informed decisions and choices about life and executive coaching sessions, coach selection, program selection and working approaches. It will also discuss logistics of life coaching - the where, when, how and duration of sessions.

Why is executive coaching so sizzling hot right now?.This is the new avant garde for those leaders, executives, elite sports people and politicians of the future who not just want to succeed but who have a burning desire to succeed at whatever cost personally or otherwise. Executive coaching is the performance enhancing drug of the corporate animal. It is the anabolic steroid equivalent for elite corporate performers and just like anabolic steriods it works and works brilliantly. Executive coaches create the pauses just as in a fast piece of music and fills those pauses with self-reflection leading to insights and self knowledge. This combination provides an extremely well targeted success missile. The only question is how to do so safely and avoid a costly reckoning (family, breakdowns, stress, ill health, death) when the music stops.

ONE ON ONE DEDICATED LIFE AND EXECUTIVE MASTERS COACHING PROGRAM. The purpose of this program is to work with future and potential life and executive masters and future outstanding leaders and champions in their own field. The 24 hours of the program (it is assumed 8 hours or so will be devoted to sleep) will consist of intensive executive, life and fitness coaching sessions. Further details are available from the Life Coaching Portal, a one stop journey, arrival and ultimate destination for those seeking flexible and targeted life, mental health, fitness and executive coaching programs.

POWER COACHING PROGRAM. This is a program for those who don't need life coaching not think they don't but categorically know they don't. You could be someone about to make it in politics, business, corporate, government, the arts and sciences, sports, show business, small business, personal relationship, in a non-profit organisation or charity in fact any field or organisation or relationship type at all. The only stipulation for this program is you have to already be on the way there but now need guile and expert guidance. You want to work with the best in life and executive coaching. Don't blow it, most likely you will only get one chance to make it. Once you get there, maximise your time to exploit there. This program will be run from the Portal.

The best Team of People (TOP) Program. What is it? It is an executive coaching program to ultra charge small teams (< 15 people). It provides for executive coaching at a level not normally seen in small to medium organisations (if it is seen at all). The purpose of the program is to work with teams of between 5 and 15 people in an executive coaching context but also providing support in the physical/mental fitness and life coaching area.

Life Coaching v Executive Coaching. Is there any real difference? Should coaches provide advice in low level subject matter areas, such as investments and legal issues, that rightly are not the domain of coaching or life coaches?

555 Program. What is it? A very specific program targeted for an audience that is looking for a multi-faceted coaching program in the areas of fitness, life coaching and executive coaching. This program will be run from the Portal.

What's new? There is so much happening in the coaching world that it's hard to keep pace with all the developments and changes as they affect you. This page tries to make sense of all the happenings from the point of view of the client. It also provides updates about this site, the members only portal and developments in that area and also developments in life and executive coaching specifically being made on this site.

Jamais sans mon coach. Hier réservé aux sportifs de haut niveau, le coaching s’infiltre, aujourd’hui, dans tous les domaines de la société. Après avoir investi le monde de l’entreprise, les coachs envahissent désormais la vie privée de nombreux gens. Mental coach, life coach, family coach, love coach, business coach… l’ère du “Jamais sans mon coach” débarque en le monde francophone. Gilbert Labour est un ambassadeur du "coaching".

LIFE COACHING PORTAL. A totally program driven approach to life and executive coaching. The 300+ pages of advice on this free web has been reduced to a series of collaborative and instructive coaching programs which can be self-paced driven. User name and password required (see below). Further information on how to access the portal is here. For members only, a targeted and direct advice series entitled Executive Coaching Series.

2 Mar 04 Update. Please accept my apologies for the web site being down for the last three days. Problems with firewall, now all fixed hopefully.

The Engagement Model. Need to contact me confidentially and quickly? Get timely advice? Get help now? Please follow the engagement model for how to get in touch with me.

FREE INTRODUCTORY LIFE COACHING SESSION. Are you searching for the next wave? Well it's here, that revolution is life coaching.

Quick and simple start page. Do you want a quick and simplified version of this page and the whole web site supporting it? This page will eventually take over from this page.

Annihilation of Creativity or the Tyranny of 100,000 Spreadsheets. A paper outline that advocates selective roll-back of IT outsourcing deals world wide to deal with the problem of sparking, identifying, fostering, mentoring and coaching for creative outcomes in large organisations. Creativity cannot be created, cannot be mandated, cannot be created by law or statutory authority. The best an organisation can do for creativity is to create the conditions that foster it. Creating an internal group with its own superlative IT&T capability, creative geniuses and product driven zealots is a development in the right direction. Outsourcing of the IT&T capability in this instance is the death knell of product and service focused creativity.

If you only want to buy a life coaching CD product and are not interested in seeing a life coach, then follow this link to buy a CD that is all you need to get started quickly with life coaching. Coach yourself and save immense time and money with a self directed coaching effort.

If you only have 30 seconds to spend looking at this particular site for a Life and Executive Coach.

Latest Media Release - Gilbert Labour, one of Australia'a top life and executive coaches announces revolutionary new life coaching self help product

Transcript of Sydney Daily Telegraph article on Life Coaching featuring interview with Gilbert Labour dated 31 Dec 03. Plus other media engagements.

New Year's Resolutions - Don't leave home without it - essential reading before making and just as quickly breaking New Year's resolutions.

I am a Life and Executive Coach practicing in Sydney, Australia but utilising modern internet technology to service clients in most parts of the world. I offer a broad range of services and a service mix which would suit most people and budgets.

I work with a range of clients at key moments in their lives. These are the products, services and programmes that I offer my clients. A specially tailored programme to meet any other needs and requirements you may have can also be formulated, developed and implemented. This can be executed anywhere in the world you require it.

Products, Services and Programmes

Life and Executive Coaching

  • Benefits for non Australian visitors?. As a result of globalisation the concept of overseas loses a bit of its sting. This web site is universally applicable to any human being in the world without exception.

  • What makes for great memories?. A set of guidelines for guiding the memory function in all of us and reducing the regret factor.

  • What makes for a great relationship?. A set of programs dealing exclusively with creating, shaping, developing, diagnosing, maintaining and mending great relationships.

  • Beating Monday morning blues or is it something else?

  • BEAT EXECUTIVE AND CORPORATE STRESS FAST. A set of programs dealing exclusively with confronting, understanding and eliminating executive stress and any other stress in your life. This program uses a multi threaded approach using life coaching methods, executive coaching methods and proven approaches to creating, promoting and maintaining physical and mental health.

  • Coaching Services and Products Preparation Session for KIWIs.This session will concentrate on the Life Coaching Portal, the most popular link on this web site containing perhaps 100 links in total. It will also provide any information required to make decisions about life and executive coaching sessions, coach selection, program selection and working approaches. A session exclusively for those in New Zealand.

  • A life and executive coaching program for men aged 40 to 55. An extremely vulnerable age, how can you insulate yourself from the ravages of middle age? Is death the only ultimate salvation, the savior or is there a way out before then?

  • 333 Program. What is it? A very