37 Questions to Ask Yourself to Get Unstuck

Do you sometimes feel like you are playing the same thoughts over and over in your head, spending a lot of time and energy doing it and not getting anywhere? Are you prepared to spend the next 10 minutes doing a little self help exercise to change this (I hope so!)? If you’ve answered yes [...]

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8 Tips to Master the Four Levels of Being in Record Time

As we covered last week, the Four Levels of Being Model is an essential tool to have in your toolkit if you are serious about self-help and personal development and are committed to taking your life to the next level. It helps you objectively understand and visualize the current level you are living at AND [...]

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Four Levels of Being – Which Level Are You?

The Four Levels of Being Model is an essential tool to have in your toolkit if you are serious about self-help and personal development and are committed to taking your life to the next level. What is the Four Levels of Being Model? The Four Levels of Being Model is a framework that helps you [...]

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Who’s Behind DYOR?

Welcome to Define your Own Reality! My name is Benay Wettle and I am a certified life coach, specializing in goal setting and achievement.  At the age of 30, the same year I started my life coach training, I made it my mission to bring my biggest dreams to life as fast as I could. [...]

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How to Discover Your Top Values and Lead a More Fulfilling Life

If you are working on your personal development plan or even if you are just interested in self-help, one activity I highly recommend is taking 30 min – 1 hour to get in touch with your top values. Your values are like your own personalized compass. They represent qualities that you have, would like to [...]

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Following a Big Dream, Feeling Hopeless and Want to Feel Better?

This article isn’t for everyone – please read on if you are following a big, life-long dream, are finding it too tough and need some insights into what you are going through and how to make yourself feel hope again. As a personal life coach who has gone for her own big dreams as well [...]

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27 Questions to Help You Find a Rewarding and Meaningful Job

As a life coach, I’ve helped lots of my coaching clients create a personal development plan that specifies what they need to do to live a fulfilling and happy life. In most cases, a big part of personal development planning is about how to be more happy in one’s job – which makes sense, given [...]

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4 Things You Can Do Today to Kick-Start Change in Your Life

The other day someone asked me what advice would I give to a person who is looking to change her life around quickly. Based on what I have personally found to be effective for my own self improvement and what I have seen to work for my life coaching clients, I have come up with [...]

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The 8 Life Areas You Should Cover in Your Personal Development Plan

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What are life areas? Your life can be divided into 8 main segments. Each segment is essentially a category you can use to sort all of the activities you do (and want to do) and their outcomes (or lack thereof). The main life areas are: No Life Area Description 1 Career/Business What you do with [...]

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Gain Confidence and Be More Effective In a Project Team

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I often see talented professionals who suffer from the “I’m not good enough” syndrome. They definitely know their stuff, yet, with every new project, they get unnecessarily stressed-out, end up doing way more work than they need to do and compromise their family and leisure time. What an unnecessary waste!   If this sounds like [...]

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