Guy Farmer
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Self-Awareness Coaching and Consulting Expert

Guy Farmer Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Self-Awareness Coaching and Consulting
- Career Focus
- Helping People Become More Self-Aware at Home and at Work
- Affiliation
- The Self-Awareness Guy
I'm Guy Farmer, The Self-Awareness Guy. I specialize in thoughtful self-awareness coaching and consulting to help creative, forward-thinking people celebrate how amazing they are and enjoy deeply meaningful personal and professional lives.
Visit me at www.theselfawarenessguy.com.
My self-awareness coaching page.
My self-awareness consulting page.
I look forward to chatting with you. Cheers, Guy.
Free Articles & Book Excerpts
What Is Self-Awareness
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/what-is-self-awareness
Ideas to Start Building Self-Awareness
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/52/how-to-start-building-self-awareness
Benefits of Self-Awareness
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/64/10-benefits-of-self-awareness
Think It and You Can Do It
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2863/think-it-and-you-can-do-it
Increasing Your Confidence as a Leader
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2895/increasing-confidence-leader
Leadership and Creating a Happier Workplace
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2887/leadership-training-creating-a-happier-workplace
Are You a Proactive or Reactive Leader?
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2891/are-you-a-proactive-or-reactive-leader
Change and Diversity
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2868/change-and-diversity
Real Communication Versus Information
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2874/real-communication-versus-information
Moving Past Criticism
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2873/moving-past-criticism
Healing Your Workplace
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2950/team-building-healing-your-workplace
Leaders and Egos
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2871/leaders-egos
5 Tips to Stop Micromanaging
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2917/5-tips-stop-micromanaging
Leadership and Being Creative
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2937/leadership-training-are-you-creative-at-work
Leadership and Overcoming Your Fears
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2932/leadership-training-overcoming-your-fears
The Importance of Your Employees
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2910/your-employees-are-the-most-important-people-in-your-workplace
Reduce Stress at Work
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2953/leadership-training-5-tips-to-reduce-stress-at-work
Leadership and Welcoming Change into Your Workplace
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2920/leadership-training-welcome-change-workplace
Why Care about Diversity?
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2925/why-care-about-diversity
Singular. A Poem
http://www.poemsandpoetryblog.com/singular-a-poem-by-guy-farmer/
Team Building and an Employee-Centered Workplace
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2959/team-building-creating-an-employee-centered-workplace
Delegating Is an Art
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2954/the-art-of-delegating
Workplace Political Correctness
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2960/political-correctness-in-the-workplace
Create an Easy Strategic Plan
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2980/leadership-training-how-to-create-an-easy-strategic-plan
How to Run More Effective Meetings
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2979/leadership-training-5-ways-to-run-more-effective-meetings
How to Believe in Yourself
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2972/leadership-training-how-to-believe-in-yourself
In Control. A Poem
http://www.poemsandpoetryblog.com/in-control-a-poem-by-guy-farmer/
5 Ways to Achieve Your Goals
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2970/leadership-training-5-ways-to-achieveh-your-goals
What is Diversity?
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/3011/diversity-training-what-is-diversity
Leadership and Not Being Perfect
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2987/leadership-training-you-dont-have-to-be-perfect
Find Meaning at Work
http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/2992/leadership-training-how-to-find-meaning-at-work
I Don’t Know What to Do in My Relationship
http://www.freeonlinerelationshipadvice.com/895/i-dont-know-what-to-do
100 Ways to Be Happy
http://www.lea ingtobehappywithyourself.com/3979/100-ways-to-be-happy
Ego Leads to Being Unhappy
http://www.lea ingtobehappywithyourself.com/3218/ego-leads-to-being-unhappy
How to Be Happy without Friends and Family
https://www.lea ingtobehappywithyourself.com/4419/how-to-be-happy-without-friends-and-family
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How to Achieve Success in Three Steps
Three Steps to Achieve Success Many people spend a lifetime searching for the secret to success when it is in front of them the whole time. There really isn't a magic secret to being successful it just requires purposeful action. Purposeful action means that we behave in a fully conscious manner and think about every action that we take. We don't leave things to chance, except when appropriate, and we purposefully do things to improve things about ourselves. We don’t let life happen to us, we make it happen.
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Ten Tips to Improve Workplace Communication
My clients often ask me how to communicate more effectively. We all are capable of practicing effective communication we just haven't learned how to actually do it. Here are some basic tips on how to get started.
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How to Get More Respect
Everyone is on a quest for respect. Parents want their kids to do it, employees want bosses to do it, spouses demand it of each other, teachers ask their students for it and people in general feel good when it happens to them. Why is it then that so many people have no clue what respect means? Let’s take a look at this elusive quality by first defining the term.
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How to Be Happy
My clients frequently ask me how to find happiness. Over the years I've noticed that a common characteristic of people who are happy is having a strong awareness of who we are and where we are going. Self-awareness is a deep understanding of who we are. It literally impacts how we treat ourselves and others and what kind of life we live. Let me give you a real world example to illustrate how important it is to get to know yourself.
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How To Improve Your Relationships
Improving your relationship often requires doing things differently and gathering new information. In this article we've highlighted some useful ideas and advice for people who want to create meaningful and lasting change in their relationships.
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The Path to Happiness
My clients frequently ask me how they can find happiness. While there are many elements that create happiness, I've noticed that a basic characteristic of people who are happy is healthy self-awareness.
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Dating Successfully After Divorce
You've emerged from a divorce and you feel like you're ready to date again. Dating is a fun and exciting part of life and can help with the post-divorce healing process. Your new dating experiences don't have to be a nightmare even if you're a bit out of practice. Think about the following ideas and use them to start enjoying life again. Remember that dating is meant to be fun, not a chore.
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The Powerful Secret to Success
There is a secret that many people don't tell you about success and that is within your reach this very moment. You get to achieve it whenever you decide to start taking action. There are three important concepts that can guide you toward great achievements: following your dreams, taking action ...There is a secret that many people don't tell you about success and that is within your reach this very moment. You get to achieve it whenever you decide to start taking action.
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Managing Conflict at Your Organization
The scene is familiar. Two or more amazing people who are dedicated to furthering the wonderful work our nonprofit conducts are actively in conflict. It starts with a perceived slight, follows with silent anger, gradually simmers into personal jabs and eventually escalates into outright confrontation. Well-meaning leaders and managers find themselves mediating a situation they do not have the tools to resolve. The conflict goes unresolved, ebbing and flowing between moderate calm and outright explosion.
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Where Happiness Begins
My clients frequently ask me how to find happiness. Over the years I've noticed that a common characteristic of people who are happy is self-awareness. Self-awareness is a deep understanding of who we are. It literally impacts how we treat ourselves and others and what kind of life we live. Let me give you a real world example to illustrate what I'm talking about.
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Finding Your Own Answers
I often get questions from people who are genuinely trying to figure out what to do in a relationship or in life. While I can give people examples of what other people have done to be successful, it is difficult to give people advice on what they should do. Each person will have their own way of arriving at a solution and a coach is there to help them arrive at whatever end they see fit. I encourage people to think in terms of finding their own solutions to tough issues. If you don't know what to do, spend some time thinking about the following points: 1. What would I name this issue?r
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Team Building Depends on You
Effective team building is about bringing people together, helping employees collaborate and encouraging positive workplace behaviors such as empathy. We tend to focus our team building efforts on groups rather than indivicuals but I've noticed over time that many organizations could build stronger teams more easily if each person took individual responsibility. Team building is much more producive if we look at the I. Here are five examples that illustrate how you (or the I) can influence team building in your organization. You Believe Team Building Doesn't Really Work
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Self-Awareness Consulting
I enjoy working with open-minded, forward-thinking leaders and organizations to improve the functioning of their workplaces through increasing self-awareness. I specialize in helping organizations get rid of behaviors that don’t work and replace them with ones that do.
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Self-Awareness Coaching
Thoughtful self-awareness coaching to help you discover how amazing you are and live a deeply meaningful life.
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The Self-Awareness Guy
Tips to become more self-aware at work and at home. Brief articles on personal development, leadership, team building, effective communication, and diversity from a self-awareness perspective.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Guy Farmer
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Attributed to Dr. Seuss
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To learn more about my lovely self-awareness coaching and consulting services visit http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com. Learn more about me at http://www.theselfawarenessguy.com/about.
You're cordially invited to browse my articles on personal development and self-awareness; leadership and self-awareness; diversity and self-awareness; team building and self-awareness; and effective communication and self-awareness.
Cheers,
Guy
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