Mark Eyre
MA (Soc Sci) in Economics & Politics, Fellow - Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development, Coaching Academy - Diploma in Coaching, BPS level B psychometrics
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Personal & career change Expert
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- Personal and career change
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- Stand up and live,Discover your career path.
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- Coach, author, business owner
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- Brilliant Futures
I am a personal development specialist, and I help people in three main areas - to build their personal resilience to change, to enhance the effectiveness of relationships, and to identify and move towards the work they love and find the right career.
I offer a range of options, including coaching (online and face to face), workshops and learning guides. I recently published 'Stand up and live', which encourages people to take their own power in an ethical way to live more fulfilling lives, as well as improving the lives of others. I am also passionattely committed to my personal development, and my own journey helps me to help the jou eys of my clients - and indeed anyone I interact with!
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Bringing change to life – and why we resist it
We all know that change is inevitable in life, but none of us likes change being imposed. Amazingly though, we often resist changes we want to make. Oh yes, we find ways to sabotage, resist and undermine change, EVEN WHERE WE SAY WE WANT IT, AND SEE IT AS GOOD! Examples include a career change, a desire to lose weight, or work changes that we are sponsoring. Here I examine three questions. • How do we resist desirable change? • Why do we resist? • What can we do about it?
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Keep 'The Secret' a secret - why it is wrong
Many of you will know about one of the iconic books of the recent self-help movement, the 'Secret'. Indeed, to call it a book ignores the DVD and the CD's that bear the same title. It also ignores the movement of disciples that has sprouted up around it. Now, as one who judges a group at least partly by its followers as well as by its ideas, the 'Secret' has caused me a feeling of disquiet for some time. While many movements down the years begin with a grain of truth, it usually gets followed by a huge dollop of propaganda that followers are expected to swallow wholesale.
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Network with intention - 7 steps to networking nirvana
The vast majority of jobs nowadays, 70-80% of them, are filled as a result of networking. In other words, most jobs do not get advertised or go through a recruitment consultancy. That makes the ability to network a key skill to master if you want to find work. Yet it's amazing how many people don't realise the importance of building an effective network. In this recession the saying “it's not what you know, it's who you know” has never been more true.
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Resistance - Is it futile?
Those among you who watch Star Trek, of the Patrick Stewart hue, will be familiar with that brilliant catch-phrase of the human-machine race of conquerors, the Borg. They went into battle with the phrase "resistance is futile, you will be assimilated" - and if it hadn't been for Patrick Stewart, they would undoubtedly have won!
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Growing up – maturity or obscurity?
I am writing this article eight months after becoming a father for the first time. This is my first encounter with fatherhood, having come on board later in my life than most people do. However, seeing Simon for the first time was wonderful, and leads to many different questions I now think about. How will he turn out? What sort of a life will he lead? What will he look back on when he is my age? As with every parent, I imagine, I hope he's looking back on a life of achievement and happiness.
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Jobs worth? A tribute to Steve Jobs
It isn't often that I write a tribute to someone who has died, but I found that I was affected by the sad death of Steve Jobs. Death sometimes has that impact on me, particularly if it was someone I saw as brilliant. Michael Jackson was the last occasion where this happened. But it is strangely different with Steve Jobs. For a start, I managed to avoid the Apple empire almost entirely. I don't have an iPad, Pod or Phone. I sit in the Microsoft, MP3 player, Android camp. So why the impact of his death on me?
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Personal Development in 2012 - vacuum anyone?
November 2011 has been an interesting month. A month of near unremitting bad news, which featured the near collapse of the Euro (which will eventually happen), and 1 million 16-24 year olds out of work in the UK. Against this backdrop, we have the City of London encouraging the Government to cut higher rates of income tax to encourage "entrepreneurial activity". The BBC has got in on the act with a new series about money, which began by looking at the rise of wealth coaching.
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Three responses to our personal identity crisis
We face an epidemic of personal identity crises in the western world. I outlined the five modern challenges to personal identity in a previous article. In a crisis, we tend to return to questions like ‘who am I?’, and ‘why am I here?’. Questions about identity and purpose of life. Our identity matters because we can't truly be ourselves if we don't even know who we are.
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Five ways to find your heart's desire at work
The desire to be productive is a universal human need. We are programmed with the need to leave our mark on the world, and 'work' is a big part of that. We endeavour to do things and achieve things, whether or not we're actually paid to do so.
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The hitch-hikers guide to personal development
Let's face it, there is so much stuff out there on the subject of personal development. Books of all types ado shelf after shelf in our nation's book shops. That's before we look at internet sales, and all the independent work out there (including mine). It's enough to put people off completely - I mean, where do you start? The aim of my article is to provide you with a place to start.
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Does it always pay to be positive?
There is much written about the importance of being positive. The idea that if you view life through an optimistic lens, not only are things more likely to turn out well, but you will feel better anyway. The 'glass half full' mentality does serve people well. In contrast, it is equally clear that viewing life through a negative lens can cause depression, and can certainly reinforce one. The ideas behind cognitive behavioural therapy are that changing the way you think can improve your life significantly.
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12 early warning signals of change
The pace of change at work is inexorably rising, with the demands of globalisation and use of technology. However, it's crucial to your workplace survival that you spot those changes that are likely to affect you. Staying awake in the workplace is important if you are to spot when something is afoot. You may not know exactly what's coming, but at least you'll realise that something is. Then you can prepare yourself for it , instead of facing immediate change that you then have to work with.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Mark Eyre
'It's never too late to be what you might have been' - George Eliot
'When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves' - Victor Frankl
'It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission' - Grace Murray Hopper
'If you don't know where you're going, you will end up somewhere else' - Yogi Berra
'When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything' - General George Patton
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To learn more about me, go to my website http://www.brilliantfutures.net. There is an option to subscribe to a free Newsletter there, that covers personal development issues in some depth, as well as giving an idea of what I am up to at any point in time. You can also download a free learning guide on career management, called 'Discover your career path'.