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Articles by Jessica McGregor Johnson

What are You Putting Off Till Later?
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Friday, Oct 21, 2011
There was a great headline in the Evening Standard a couple of weeks ago “101 things to do before we die, just one to go and we’re not even 30”. It caught my eye – in the newspaper of the person sitting next to me on the tube and I was very happy that as she left, she left behind the newspaper so I could get a good read! These two friends had made a list of challenges they promised to achieve over a lifetime. And in the doing of them they got so inspired that they have done them all except one. This list included joining football team, skydiving, going in a wind ...Read More
Life Coaching, Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Those Pesky Doors!
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Friday, Aug 26, 2011
I wrote on Facebook recently that when one door closes and another opens. One of the comments was that not only was this true but many times the door that opens is, more often than not, a better door. This was certainly true for me a few weeks ago. I live in Spain although the majority of my business is in the UK. I run workshops, conduct Passion Test for Business Programs with individuals and companies and do quite a lot of networking in London. To do this we have been hugely supported by a great friend who, for the past few years, has very generously opened the doors of his house to us ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Having a Vision
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Thursday, Jul 21, 2011
For the last 20 years I have read many times that it is very important to have a vision for whatever you want in your life. Perhaps you’ve heard the same – without vision there is no way you can work out your pathway to your destination. Over the years I have worked with my clients on creating a personal vision – what they would like to have their life look and feel like when they have brought everything into balance. It is always much easier to work out the steps you need to take, when you know where you are going. There are many ways you can do this – at the end of ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Trusting Yourself Outside Your Comfort Zone
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Thursday, Jun 16, 2011
I was coaching a Big Stretch recently up in the mountains of Spain. This is a powerful week-long holiday/course in which we ask the participants to identify an area of their life where they want to stretch and take big steps forward. As we all know stretching out of your comfort zone is scary. And it should be! Any goal that is only exciting is too small and we will grow out it far too quickly. Any goal that is only scary is too big and we simply won’t go there. So the right kind of goal is the one that is both scary and exciting! So much for the theory, but what about the practise? ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Sabotaging Short Cuts
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Wednesday, Mar 02, 2011
I don’t now about you but life has become very busy since the beginning of this year. It has felt like time has speeded up, rather whirlwind-like. Many people I have spoken with recently have felt the same, some kind of shift happening, rather like the brakes being taken off. And that is all great! However I also began to see in myself that I was wanting to short cut things to make up time and ‘get things done”. Yep, that old potato, the “get things done”. Now it is all well and good to get things done, but not if it is to the expense of other things like being ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Life is a Daring Adventure - Or Nothing
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Tuesday, Jan 04, 2011
Life Is a Daring Adventure “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is not safer in the long run than exposure.” Helen Keller. I have always loved this quote, well to be honest I have always loved the first bit. I have never seen the whole of it and when you do it makes it even more powerful. It came to me at the end of my meditation and somehow resonated deeply. What also resonated was it is my choice. Am I going to continue to choose the daring adventure? Are you? The ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Keep on Going
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Sunday, Nov 28, 2010
Ok, so we've all heard the phrase “when the going gets tough, the tough get going!” or maybe “when life gives you lemons make lemonade!” Or even “don’t worry when the rug gets pulled from under your feet - learn to dance on a shifting carpet!” What a collection of clichés!

 All of these sayings are kind of saying the same thing - keep on moving forward and let the challenges be the fuel for that movement. Where are you in your life right now? Are things moving as you want or maybe you getting disheartened, feeling everything is ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Choosing Your Attitude
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
It can be a challenging time when our world as we know it shifts beneath out feet. One of my favourite quotes is: "Don't worry about having the carpet pulled from under your feet; learn to dance on a shifting carpet" That's the key right now, and it all depends on where your focus is and what attitude you choose to bring to this moment. At no point in time has it been more important to manage your mental state and choose where your mind goes and what you are focusing on. If you are focused on the doom and gloom than that is going to be all you will see. If you shorten your focus and become ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
Passion, the Signpost to a Fulfilled Life
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Thursday, Apr 22, 2010
Passion is such a buzzword right now, so many times I have people come and say to me, if I only knew what my passion was I could change my life and be happy. It is like they are some big secret, something that is hidden from them that if they could only see everything would be great. Having specifically worked with passions for a while now I have to reveal a secret – your passions are not something that are hidden away from you, something to be discovered that you haven’t previously allowed yourself to see. One person I was talking with said that when she wrote down her passions ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being
When Things Feel Too Slow!
By: Jessica McGregor Johnson    Monday, Feb 01, 2010
“You always overestimate what you can do in a year and underestimate what you can do in a lifetime” Not sure who that quote is from but I have heard it many times and each time I hear it, it rings so true. I have chosen it as a theme as it seems that many people who are working hard to create the change they want in their lives are beginning to find themselves in a bit of a log jam wishing the whole thing would just move faster. Speed is something that we are aware of in our society, the quicker you can do something the better. But often it is useful to have things develop at a ...Read More
Life Coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Spiritual Growth and Well-being