Often, we mistake possibility for competence. We think something is not possible when in fact we just do not know how to do it. Everything is simple when you know how to do it. I wish I knew that years ago, instead of beating myself up and telling myself I was useless. Everything you have ever learnt and mastered started…

Pizzaman At the age of 56 and with no experience running a restaurant, Paul Giannone decided to quit his job and open a pizza restaurant. He’s now 66 and still loves what he does and said he will never retire. Paul Giannone (known to all as “Paulie Gee”) grew up in Brooklyn, NY but moved to New Jersey as an…

Beliefs The power of our beliefs system is immense. If we all developed an understanding of the thoughts and ideas that we automatically have, those that we no longer question when they appear at the forefront of our minds; then we could all be leading a better life through banishing the negative chatter. Limiting beliefs are held in the subconscious…

The Gremlin Effect During the course of the coaching relationship, clients will experience ups and downs, plateaus, periods of great insight, everything happening at lightning speed, followed by a trough of the wave, drifting in the doldrums. In particular, for most clients, there’s a slump between weeks three and eight. It happens because change is not happening fast enough, or…

Telephone Repairman Follows His Dream: Designing Women’s Shoes  At the age of 50, Chris Donovan, who up to that point had worked as a telephone repairman for 30 years, decided to take a second act to reinvent himself to become a women’s shoe designer. For as long as Chris can remember starting in second grade at high school, he has…

This is Gill. After turning fifty and a messy divorce behind her, she was at a loss. So, after coming to see me, she found her-self on the road less travelled. Sometimes we don’t know what lies ahead? The long and winding road of our life has many twists and turns. Then, suddenly and unexpectedly, we come to a crossroads…

What Everybody Ought To Know About Following Their Passion Why do you do what you do? What’s it for? Is it for the money, security or maybe the passion? Does being passionate get you to where you want to be and pay the bills? For example, I’m passionate about lots of things, but they would not support me financially. I…

Are you disengaged at work? If you work forty hours a week, fifty weeks a year (with two weeks of for your skimpy “American” vacation), for forty years-you will have worked 80,000 or more hours. Many of you reading this will average more than fifty hours a week and work well beyond fifty years-which puts you over 125,000 hours. Almost…

Time to breathe We never know what is around the corner, and life has a funny way of keeping us on our toes—tripping us up from one drama to the next. We are so caught up in the wash, spin, dry, and repeat cycle of our life that we forget to pull the plug out and take time out for…

https://www.garyhallcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Its-coming-home-9-1.mp4If you were born the last time the England football team was in a final, you would be 55 now. How has your life played out, achieved success (whatever that means to you)? If I was to ask you to name your top three goal achievements, what would they be? Take a piece of A4 paper and list them: My…