Author Archives: Douglas Cartwright

About Douglas Cartwright

Douglas Cartwright is a Certified Meta-States Coach and Trainer who engages in radically transformative coaching to enable you to create the meanings that help you 'live your words' and claim your outcomes. Contributing author to 2 published books, and author of over 80 articles on the internet, Doug has created the Personal-PowerPack for people wanting to reclaim their self-control and self-esteem. If you want to talk about a free explore your breakthrough session, contact him at Living Words to find out how your life could change for the better.

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Uncomfortable, Unknown, Unfamiliar –Are They Bad Words?

Whatever the answer, especially if it makes you feel un-comfortable(!) – this is the thing with which you have a semantic reaction.

You literally cannot mention some subjects with some people. Ask someone who has been really, really hurt and betrayed to talk about ‘love’ or ‘commitment’ or ‘trust’- and get out of the way of the flying pans! r

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Upgrade Your Personal ‘Exit Strategies’ for 2011

But have you ever thought about your own personal exit strategies – the ones you use for giving up on your own personal projects, hopes and dreams?

In most books about personal change and growth we are often told that our reasons for pressing ahead with our projects must be more important than our reasons for quitting. r

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Stop Worshipping Emotions

Emotions are not God. Stop listening to them like they are.

Your emotions, and visceral bodily feelings are not designed to carry the burden of proof you put upon them. r

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Are You a Mental Slave or a Mental Master?

When people say they are stuck I know they are not ACTUALLY stuck, they have just believed themselves into a corner that they have no options.

I’m going to let you into one of the secrets of running your own brain.

You can always step back and question the belief you think you can’t question or change. r

Why People Pleasers Get Hit By Trains

In this article I’m going to introduce several ‘truths’ about the mindset that leads to people pleasing, the repercussions, and what you can do about it to keep yourself ‘on track’ r

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The (re)acquisition of your Personal Power

Power: What a subject.

We all desire power to varying degrees whether we call it ‘power’ or ‘control’ or something else; whether or not it’s ‘power’ over ourselves or ‘power’ over others; power to do good, power to do evil, power to create, power to destroy…and so on. r