28/12/22 Out Like A Lamb!

 

                                       

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Hi and thank you for joining me here on what is to be the final post of 2022.

I have to report that in general 2022 was a good year for yours truly although not without it's ups and downs.

We spent a few weekends at the caravan, had a fantastic holiday in Cornwall.  Spent time with good friends, made some new friends and sadly lost one or two old ones.

Alison ordered her new hybrid car, has healed from her operation back in January and is now back to fine health, working in a general shop and thoroughly loving it. 

Working on her own account has seen Dawn go from strength to strength, she has grown her confidence,  the jewellery / gift business has done well and her childcare business is proving extremely busy.  Earlier in the year she ordered her new full electric car and is now eagerly awaiting delivery.

I changed my white PHEV for a metallic grey version and I absolutely love it!  I have not had many commercial photo gigs this year mainly because the paper I freelanced for was taken over (and now appears to have been closed completely) plus the situation with Alison's mobility didn't help, but I am hoping that the photo opportunities will come again in 2023.  

The year also proved to be fairly static on the coaching / personal development front and this is something I intend to address early in the New Year.  The website will be updated and there will be something of a marketing "push" taking place!

So all in all a very busy year is closing and I am quietly confident that 2023 will prove to be much busier for us all.

And with that said I would like to thank you for your support and wish everyone of you and your respective families a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2023.

DAve x

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About Dave  Personal development coach; a therapist; speaker, radio presenter

                               

"A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives".  

Certifications
I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-
Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)
Music Therapy (Diploma)
Crystal Therapy (Practioner)
Reiki (Practitioner)
Dementia Awareness
In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an 
Introduction To Mindfulness
To find out more about how we could be able to work together or to just dive straight in and book a session, then please send me an email

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link to the new
 Altered Image Coaching page. 

This page is home to a group of like - minded people (also affectionately known as "The Tribe") and as a thank you for their continued support people who join "The Tribe" often receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  

Plus the page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So, please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.





LINKS

Website:
https://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/alteredimage

Wytchwynd Photography:
http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/


Workbook



Keep an eye open for the 2023 Workbook (#7) 
IT HAS STARTED TO FORM!


Please email: devonlifecoach@mail.com for more information



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Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And again, above all remember

"Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!"
DAve x

21/12/22 My Role As A Coach

 

My Role As A Coach (part 1)

Hi, It's DAve

Thank you for joining me on this week's Blog!

I thought that as we approach the New Year, it is a good time to take stock and 

outline my position as a personal development coach/consultant.

So with that in mind, I felt it might be extremely useful to establish what it means – 

and the first thing I thought might be useful, is to define what is Personal 

Development! 

"Personal Development is the pursuit of enhancing your life by way of self

improvement."

As Deepak Chopra, once said “success in life can be defined as the continued 

expression of happiness, and the positive realisation of worthy goals“.

I believe that personal development has no end or completion, it is a process 

that begins at the point of birth and continues throughout your life – we never finish 

growing because there is always more to learn and therefore as you evolve so do 

your personal development goals.

No one in the world will have a personal development journey identical to yours – 

we are always a work in progress, and our goals/path is unique – peoples goals 

may vary greatly – some may seek to get in touch with the “Higher Self” whereas 

others will concentrate on career development.

“The goals are as unique as the person!” 

It all depends on, what is most important to you.

It is a truism that everyone can take part in personal development, because there 

is something for everyone who wishes to improve! It can be simplified to “there are 

only two things needed for success:-

1. desire
2. self-awareness

Put another way, if you have a desire to grow, and you can be honest with yourself 

(about your actions thoughts, weaknesses and strengths) you can create a 

Personal Development plan!

Next time, we will take a look at why you need a personal development plan, and 

begin to take the steps necessary to create one!

I hope that you have a wonderful Yule celebration and I will see you again next 

week.

Best Wishes

DAve x

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About Dave  Personal development coach; a therapist; speaker, radio presenter

                               

"A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives".  

Certifications
I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-
Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)
Music Therapy (Diploma)
Crystal Therapy (Practioner)
Reiki (Practitioner)
Dementia Awareness
In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an 
Introduction To Mindfulness
To find out more about how we could be able to work together or to just dive straight in and book a session, then please send me an email

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link to the new
 Altered Image Coaching page. 

This page is home to a group of like - minded people (also affectionately known as "The Tribe") and as a thank you for their continued support people who join "The Tribe" often receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  

Plus the page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.





LINKS

Website:
https://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/alteredimage

Wytchwynd Photography:
http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/


Workbook

  The 2022 Personal + Lifestyle Development Coaching Workbook is now retired and no longer available.  

Keep an eye open for the 2023 Workbook (7) 
It HAS STARTED TO FORM!


Please email: devonlifecoach@mail.com for more information



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Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And again, above all remember

"Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!"
DAve x

14/07/22 Turning The Page!

 

Hello it's DAve 

Welcome to the revamped Altered Image Coaching blog!

Fairly recently I decided that I needed to get back into coaching real people because I have spent far too long talking around the subject instead of actually doing it!

With that said here is a short exercise that is designed to help you to identify and come to terms with personal weaknesses and help you to learn to “love” them. 

The truth about weaknesses is that they are always subjective, they only become real if (or when) they get in our way and have an effect on what we want to do.

Life in this world finds us tending to focus on what could be improved about ourselves rather than looking at the things about us that are already great. 

The exercise below can help you to change the way you see these “weaknesses”.

So without further ado let us dive into the the exercise:-

Firstly - identify and write down 3 things that you most dislike about yourself (the weaknesses)

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2. 

3.

Secondly - identify two ways that each weakness can be useful or serve a particular purpose.  If you find yourself stuck then try coming up with an extremely unlikely or unusual situation - let your sense of humour run wild!!!!

Now having done this 

Thirdly - write down the things that you have learned about yourself by taking part in this exercise.

Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you all again next week

Best wishes

DAve x

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About Dave  Personal development coach; a therapist; speaker, radio presenter

                               

"A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives".  

Certifications

I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-

Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)

Music Therapy (Diploma)

Crystal Therapy (Practioner)

Reiki (Practitioner)

Dementia Awareness

In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an 

Introduction To Mindfulness

To find out more about how we could be able to work together or to just dive straight in and book a session, then please send me an email

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link to the new

 Altered Image Coaching page. 

This page is home to a group of like - minded people (also affectionately known as "The Tribe") and as a thank you for their continued support people who join "The Tribe" often receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  

Plus the page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

LINKS

Website:

https://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/alteredimage

Wytchwynd Photography:

http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/

Workbook

  The 2022 Personal + Lifestyle Development Coaching Workbook is now retired and no longer available.  

Keep an eye open for the 2023 Workbook (7) 

It HAS STARTED TO FORM!

Please email: devonlifecoach@mail.com for more information

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Feel free to share this and other posts with your friends and associates

Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And again, above all remember

"Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!"

DAve x

07/12/22 Change is coming!

 

Hi Everyone

Thank you for joining me here on the Altered Image Coaching blog.  I have been doing a lot of research recently about what to put into the blog that keeps it “on point” and it has become apparent that a lot of popular bloggers in my field do things slightly differently from the ways that I have been using.

So bearing that in mind I have decided to change things round and hopefully in the process attract some new readers (whilst keeping the existing readership happy “I hope”)

I kept wondering “what it is that consistently has people returning week after week?” and my answer kept returning to - the content……it has to be!

With that in mind I directed my research a little further and whilst I have been achieving some nice viewing stats it could be a lot better (it could also be much worse though)

So the clue is in the name

Altered Image Coaching – now I chose this "way back when" because I wanted my brand to be synonymous with Personal Development – and I felt then as I do now - that Altered Image did exactly that.

And then it hit me that lately there has been a watering down of the content and some of it has contained little or no “Coaching” in the Altered Image Coaching blog!  So I thought long and hard about this, and then I looked back over the last year’s posts and surprise, surprise all of the high reader posts were found to be directly linked to coaching.

So, at the present the plan is that starting from the first week of January the blog will focus on containing more of the Coaching content and less of the other things that have crept in over the past year.

Thank you very much for reading this and I look forward to working alongside you as you move on into your Personal Development.

Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you all again next week

Best wishes

DAve

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About Dave   I am a personal development coach; a therapist; speaker; and  radio presenter.  A number of years ago I founded my coaching practice and although it has gone through various incarnations the core of Altered Image Coaching has always remained the same to help and encourage people to live their best lives.  

Certifications

I hold qualifications in each of the following disciplines:-

Life Coaching (Honours Diploma)

Music Therapy (Diploma)

Crystal Therapy (Practioner)

Reiki (Practitioner)

Dementia Awareness

In addition to the above I am compiling a series of short videos that will provide an 

Introduction To Mindfulness

To find out more about how we could be able to work together or to just dive straight in and book a session, then please send me an email

If you would like to join our Facebook group just follow the link to the new

 Altered Image Coaching page. 

This page is home to a group of like - minded people (also affectionately known as "The Tribe") and as a thank you for their continued support people who join "The Tribe" often receive exclusive content that I do not post anywhere else.  

Plus the page also provides advanced information about forthcoming projects and events.

So please spread the word about the blog, the tribe etc. to your friends and family and I hope to see you as a member of our "Tribe" soon.

LINKS

Website:

https://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/alteredimage

Wytchwynd Photography:

http://moonshadowmedia.wixsite.com/photographyportfolio

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/davethemerlin/under-blue-skies/

Workbook

  The 2022 Personal + Lifestyle Development Coaching Workbook is now retired and no longer available.  

Keep an eye open for the 2023 Workbook (7) 

It HAS STARTED TO FORM!

Please email: devonlifecoach@mail.com for more information

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Subscribing To The Blog

To subscribe to the blog please go over to the right hand side of this page and click the button that says “Follow”.  Once you do that you will be added to our list of subscribers.

Feel free to share this and other posts with your friends and associates

Have a fantastic day, live a life of Passion and Power.

And again, above all remember

"Don't Predict The Future - CREATE IT!"

DAve x