Willie Horton
FCCA AITI MMII BSc(Hons) Psychology MBPs
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Mindfulness-Based Leadership Development & Coaching Expert
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- Mindfulness-Based Leadership Development and Coaching
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- No More Stress & The Psychology of Success
- Career Focus
- Making Mindfulness Practical in Business
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- psyberCoach.com & Gurdy.Net
Willie Horton has been working at the cutting edge of mindfulness-based leadership development and coaching since 1996, following a career in senior management in financial services. He is an accountant, tax consultant and psychologist. His clients include: Allergan, ESB, Diageo, KPMG, Deloitte, G4S, Pfizer, VHI Healthcare, Stada AG, Gilead Life Sciences and Nestle. He is the creator of psyberCoach™ - the mindfulness-based leadership development platform for Coaches, Consultants, HR and Learning & Development Professionals. From Ireland, Willie and his family live in the French Alps.
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Introducing the Mindfulness Measurement Index™
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The Psychology of Success - Introductory Video
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No More Stress - Introductory Video
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Personal Development: Take Real Action to Change Your Life
Lots of people don’t like where they’re at in their lives. Some regret their missed chances – my grandmother used to repeatedly tell me that she wished that she was 18 again! The male “mid-life crisis” sees many such disillusioned people trying to re-find their youth – often with the help of a youthful mate! Over two-thirds of people believe that they don’t like the job they’re doing – most say that they do it for the money. Others are in – and prepared to stay in – unhappy, dysfunctional or even violent relationships. Many people’s “nows” are not all they sh
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Personal Development and the Curse of Useless Thought
I’m writing this article on a Friday morning. A couple of years back, I did a breakfast seminar – a short discussion on effective personal development – for a large organization in Dublin.
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Success Means Having Arrived
Many people reading so-called personal development or self improvement articles or, indeed, any of the vast number of self help books that continue to proliferate will know all about the concept known as the Law of Attraction – that, by your state of mind, you attract into your life the things that you want out of life.
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Be Positive : Stop Negative Gossip
A client asked me recently “What would you have left to talk about if you took gossip out of the conversation?” A very good question, because most of us spend a large part of our time gossiping. It might be about little “harmless” things, like the neighbours’ behaviour, how someone down the road was caught with someone else’s wife, how the guy next door was caught drink-driving. Or how one of our children’s friends got drunk (and sick on the school bus). Most of us, to a greater or lesser extent, delight in gossip – particularly if it involves someone else falling on their face. Of course,
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Stay Crazy or Succeed – It’s Your Call
There is over seventy years’ research that proves conclusively that you and I, as normal people, are crazy. Our minds control us, not the other way around as it should be – as sure a definition of madness as I have ever seen. The evidence started mounting up all the way back in 1936 when a certain Professor Stroop proved that our inability to pay attention even hinders us paying attention to what we want we have decided to pay attention to!
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What Do You Want Out of Life?
Is it possible that your life is not the joyful, effortless, successful, happy and carefree promenade that your heart desires because, in fact, you haven’t really got the first clue what your heart truly desires at all? I’ve been working with personal development or self improvement clients since the beginning of 1996. In my experience, almost nobody has ever given any thought to what they actually want out of life.
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Personal Development: Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Familiarity breeds contempt – so the old saying goes – and, indeed, there is considerable psychological evidence to back this up. Many years research has proved that the normal mind performs its routine tasks in a mindless manner, without paying what is being done any attention at all. This psychological “facility” do perform routine tasks without paying them any attention has undoubted benefits – imagine if you had to pay attention to how you put one foot in front of the other when you walk?
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Personal Development and the Lie of Self Improvement
From the word go, we’re programmed to believe that we need to better ourselves. If we’ve grown up in the Christian tradition, we have learned that he are damaged goods in need of repentance – that’s not, in fact, at the core of the Christian message – in fact, we are actually told that we are the children of God. In addition, as a result of society’s need for us to conform, we are encouraged to better ourselves by getting a good education.
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Personal Development: Energy and Success
The ground-breaking science of quantum physics explains to us that you and I – indeed, everything in our world and in our universe – are energy. Nothing more, nothing less. And the manner in which we manage our energy has a direct moment-to-moment impact on our lives. Every action that you take, every word that you say and, most importantly, every thought that you have is an explicit use of your energy. I’ve placed heavy emphasis on thought, placed it higher in the order of things than either actions or words. The reason is simple.
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Career Choices: Deciding for Yourself
Over the last year or so, I have spoken to a number of people who have found themselves at a crossroads in their careers through no fault of their own. Economic circumstances, being in the work place at the wrong time, employers using the excuse of the economic downtu to re-structure – have led to many people finding themselves out of work at a time in their lives when they could, quite reasonably, have expected to be taking their foot off the peddle and relaxing.
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Personal Development: It’s the Thought that Counts
Our lives are the product of what we ourselves do to create them. Although, ultimately, we cannot fully control our lives, we can, in the right frame of mind, exert a huge influence on our success and happiness. Unfortunately, however, the normal person exerts little or no influence at all over the course of their lives because they have no concept of their own ability to grasp full control of the one and only thing that all us can control – our own state of mind. Indeed, I suspect that it has never even occurred to the majority of people that they can control their own state of mind.
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Personal Development and Peace of Mind
How do you achieve lasting peace of mind? Well, the answer is in both the question and the title of this article. You find it within, in your mind, where else would you expect to find it! It doesn’t matter what is going on around you, what is happening in your life or who is doing what to you. It has nothing to do with whether or not you think you’ve sufficient income or a secure job. It is entirely down to what is going on in your mind – and therein lies the problem because the normal mind is full of crap.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Willie Horton
Purposeful mindfulness enables us achieve the extraodinary effortlessly
Stress is personal so there's no point managing it... banish it instead
Authentic leadership is all about presence - and anyone can learn that
The most exciting thing I know for sure is that you can restructure your brain, enable you do just what you need to do to get to where you want to go
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My clients achieve the extraordinary effortlessly. Too good to be true? Their testimonials suggest not! They confirm that, with the proper focus (mindfulness) and objectives (purpose), purposeful mindfulness enables anyone achieve their extraordinary. I've been doing this since 1996 - in live workshops, 1-to-1 coaching and online. Based on cognitive psychology and neuroscience, why not learn about The Psychology of Success.
And, now, psyberCoach™ enables coaches do what I do, using a range of mindfulness-based programs that deliver high-value long-term coach-client relationships. With a uniquely interconnected psychology-focused Knowledge Base and the Mindfulness Measurement Index™ and independently accredited CPD, psyberCoach™ makes mindfulness a practical business proposition.
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