Paul G Bailey
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7 Year Old Thinks Being Gay Is “A bit weird” But He’s Glad
04 months ago
I’ve been with my husband for over 10 years. I’ve known my husband’s nephew since he was just 1 years old. So he’s only ever know that he has two uncles, one that is his mothers brother, and the guy he’s married to. He affectionately calls us UP1 and UP2. Uncle Pete 1 and Uncle Paul 2.
Every once in a while he asks a very important question as his understanding increases with age. For example, a few years ago he was discussing the fact that his uncles were gay. So I asked him, what did he think about that?
“Well, it’s a bit weird”
He said, carefully thinking about the question he followed this up with
“But I’m glad, because if UP1 wasn’t gay then I wouldn’t have UP2″
I blushed, and my heart skipped a beat. I smiled at him and said ”I’m glad too”.
Press Release: “Confidence Building for Gay Men” Meetup Now Forming in London
02 years ago
by Paul Bailey
in General
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Paul Bailey
Gay Confidence Coach
Phone: 0845 388 3218
Skype user ID: pgbailey
Email: meetup (at) gayconfidencecoach.com
Web: www.gayconfidencecoach.com
“Confidence Building for Gay Men” Meetup Now Forming in London
Paul Bailey, Gay Confidence Coach, Will Offer Strategies
For Building Self-Assurance and Self-Esteem
London, [22 April 2010]—“There’s a common misconception that all gay men are oozing self confidence,” says Paul Bailey, the UK’s Gay Confidence Coach. “This is not always true.”
In response to the need for self-assurance among gay men, Bailey, a noted life coach, facilitates a Meetup.com group called “Confidence Building for Gay Men.” The meetings take place in central London, near the Liverpool Street Station, on the second Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m.
Meetup.com offers group meetings in locations around the world, enabling participants with common interest to join groups and interact for mutual benefit.
Participants at Paul Bailey’s “Confidence Building for Gay Men” Meetup learn to build self-confidence via visualisation, breathing, and positive association exercises, as well as through body language adjustments, verbal communication techniques, and sharing experiences with other group members.
Bailey explains, “At this Meetup, gay men have the opportunity to meet with like-minded men interested in personal growth, confidence building, and sharing insights into their own journey of personal development.”
Group members have high praise for Paul Bailey’s previous Meetups.
One participant notes, “I found Paul to be very effective at creating a safe and welcoming space. He was skilled at exploring the issues I raised and at summarising what I had said.”
Another attendee shares the enthusiasm: “This meeting was very effective at helping me to get clarity in an area that I have been struggling with for years. I was able to focus on core issues, clarify what was holding me back, and set out a plan for how to take action.”
Still another reports, “If you are a gay man who would like to work on building your confidence, then this is exactly designed for you!”
Those eager to move behind old patterns and step into a new, more confident, and more successful life should be sure to attend these stimulating meetings. For the exact Meetup location, e-mail meetup@gayconfidencecoach.com or phone 0845 388 3218.
About Meetup:
Meetup.com is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup.com makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.
Meetup’s mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.
About Paul Bailey:
Paul Bailey (www.gayconfidencecoach.com), the UK’s “Gay Confidence Coach,” is an out and proud gay man who helps people add meaning and confidence to their personal and professional lives. Trained at The Coaching Academy, the world’s largest life-coaching school, Paul delivers his coaching expertise through face-to-face individual or group sessions, as well as by telephone and online. Paul’s clients come from diverse backgrounds, including from the worlds of art, business, and academia on both sides of the Atlantic.
Paul’s unique and upbeat approach to life coaching enables each individual to verbalise ideas, goals, and dreams; to explore options; to develop effective directions and plans; and to move forward at a comfortable-yet-productive pace—and all without ever feeling judged or criticised. The result is that Paul’s clients are empowered to focus on possibilities and to achieve maximum fulfilment and success in all aspects of their lives.
Follow Paul Bailey on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/lifecoach
For additional information, visit http://www.meetup.com/Confidence-Building-for-Gay-Men/
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Lehman Brothers
03 years ago
Panic is everywhere. In the newspaper, on the TV and the internet everything seems to be crumbing around our ears. For 5,000 people at Lehman Brothers they must be struggling with so many emotions right now from panic, despair, sorrow, anger and loss.
What on earth do you do with a situation like this?
One thing that people often forget is that they are allowed to go through the grieving process. Google it, look it up and do a bit of research for yourself. By being thrown a curve ball like this your world is suddenly in temporary turmoil.
The important word there is temporary. Important for two reasons:-
1: It’s not permanent, so it WILL end.
2: It’s not instant! Unfortunately it won’t end right away.
So give yourself time to go though the motions and emotions. Allow yourself to be sad and upset, anger often follows but soon after comes strength.
That is when to use the energy, as the anger passes over to clarity.
Now is the time to take a breath and plan your next step.
Just give it time, it will come but make sure you grab the moment with both hands when it does!
Welcome to the new website!
04 years ago
Change is GOOD!
Of course as a life coach I have to make sure that I “walk the talk”. My old website was bursting at the seams from all the changes and tweaks I’d made over the last 12 months and frankly it just needed a complete over haul.
I was listening to one of my favourite pod casts and they were talking about revamping their own site and converting it to WordPress. Now it doesn’t take much for me to find something that’s new and start to do some research on it. So after just a few hours I had managed to completely rebuild my website using WordPress.
Once that had been completed, I needed to tweak a few things to get it right. Then I decided to have another look at the options that were now out there for the scheduling tool that I use. The old one wasn’t terribly user friendly and frankly a bit too grey for my liking. So off to Google I went searching! I tried and bought a couple of packages, the first one was just a complete nightmare, but then I decided to bite the bullet and spend a bit more money on something that really looked the business.
It’s a massive improvement! I’m stunned at how things have changed over the last year, it really was worth the effort of looking around and trying out a few packages. After some modification and tweaks of the colours (lime green didn’t really suit my site) I’ve now integrated the scheduling system directly into my website.
Now I was really on a roll, so the next thing was the Coaching Appraisal Survey. Again this was based on another 3rd party site and it didn’t really fit into the colour and general layout of the old site. I found a wonderful plugin that works directly with WordPress and soon after I had a perfectly integrated survey snuggly fitted directly into the site.
After all this I did a bit more tweaking and then thought to myself “in for a penny, in for a pound!” and decided to change the old banner at the top of the page.
I’m sure that there will be a lot more tweaking before I’m really finished, but so far I’m really pleased with the way it’s turned out.
Also now that I’m using WordPress you will see that I have a feed back form at the bottom of a lot of pages, plus I now have this new Blog section where I will be keeping everyone up to date on the latest offers, reviews of some of the best coaching resources and general coaching information. As it’s a Blog this also gives you the chance to feed back on any of my posts.
Give it a try! Let me know what you think of the new website, or post me a comment or question that you my have on the coaching services I provide or even just coaching in general. I’d love to hear from you and please remember that the question that is on your mind maybe of many others as well! So go ahead and ask.
