NoCLOUDS BLOG

Faith Coaching
Play Your Part is a six-session framework designed for individuals for whom the Christian Faith is an integral part of their lives and decision making.

The framework and accompanying coaching will help you to think about where your strengths lie and what motivates you ...
Its not about the Coffee
The seven times Tour de France cycling champion, Lance Armstrong, wrote an autobiography called, ‘It’s not about the Bike’. I think that is a great title. It takes something that is indelibly linked with him and says, actually, you’ve got it wrong … its not about what you see … its about what lies behind that … what motivates what you see.
Getting Your Message Across
There are four very important aspects to consider when getting an effective message across.
Life in Five Short Chapters
A poem about frustration ... and change
Stories We Tell About Ourselves
We all tell a story about ourselves and the things we do in life ... the question is, "is it the story we'd like to tell?!"
Six Thinking Hats
Looking at a Decision From All Points of View

'Six Thinking Hats' is an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style, and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation.
Good Communication starts with Digging
Whether in your personal or working life, communication is at the heart of all of our personal and business relationships.

No-one would begin a house building project by starting with the windows and the doors, or the roof. You build from the ground up, by laying good solid foundations.
Is My Child Dyslexic?
It is always good to talk things through in more detail with a Dyslexia specialist, who can do various tests and screenings to ascertain the nature of any dyslexic problems there may be.



However, the following checklist can be a good initial indicator.
Start a Stop Doing List
Jim Collins proposed the idea that we review what we do periodically - perhaps at New Year? - and make a stop doing list.

The idea is to stop doing things that are merely good things and start a to do list that consists of things that we are passionate about.