Paul Yates

Build On The Success Of Your First Twelve Months

Your business is a year old. What now? How is it possible to keep running the business where so many others have failed? Four people in five fail. Fact. The key lies in the stamina and consistence of running a business, but also the tactical and strategic... Read >

Do You Really Need A Business Plan?

If you are setting up in business as a coach you will value working with people and helping others. Sales projections and cost controls might not be quite so near the top of your list. I set up a coaching business to do the work I love doing with the ... Read >

How Do You Choose The Right Coach For You?

Choosing a coach isn’t always an easy task. Afterall there are many coaches in the marketplace competing for your business but not always easy to determine who will actually be the best person to help you achieve what you want. Your first step is to t... Read >

Improving Parenting Skills Using Coaching

"Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them learn rather than teaching them" (Whitmore, J, 2004) If we are to define coaching in this way then it would seem that this is an obvious way of helping ou... Read >

How Coaching Changed My Life

Just six years ago, aged 38 I was at a crossroads in my life. My children were growing up fast and at school, we had just moved house and was getting to grips with living in a new and rather isolated rural community and having had an fulfilling career bre... Read >

Improve Your Business Social Networking Productivity

How much time have you already wasted with social networking and not actually achieved anything? If your answer to this question is anything like mine then it is probably something along the lines of an awful lot. I've struggled to see the value of soc... Read >

Why Use A Water Smoker?

In order to understand why you would want to use a water smoker we need first of all to distinguish between two types of smoking. The first is smoking for preservation and this is what I would call the traditional smoking that has evolved through the a... Read >

The Greatest Twitter Marketing Strategy

I've been using Twitter so a number of years now and what strikes me most in recent times is the number of tweets that come in from certain people who I follow and the tweets are almost exactly the same as the last one that I received from them only five ... Read >

Can Anyone Develop Coaching Skills?

You may be contemplating becoming a coach and wondering whether you have the right skills and qualities to become one. There are both skills and qualities that are essential to being a great coach and let’s distinguish between the two. Skills are some... Read >

Are You Disciplined Enough?

This year I decided to undertake a 30 day challenge, Lent had passed and since I am not particularly religious don’t really feel any allegiance to this event. However after hearing several people talk about their reasons for abstinence I started thinking ... Read >

Why You Should Always Have Vinegar In Your Kitchen

I remember watching a TV show about women who went around the country cleaning other peoples houses and tut-tutting at all the dirt and grime that they found. Now I'd never let them into my house, not because it's particularly untidy or dirty but I'm sure... Read >

The Best Recipe For Barbecue Sauce

As you travel the country you'll find many different opinions about what makes a good barbecue sauce, if you're in the Carolina's for example they'll probably be voting for a vinegar bbq sauce and if you're in the South there's bound to be something hot a... Read >

Why Homemade BBQ Sauce Is A Healthy Option

Barbecue sauce can't be healthy can it? Well yes it can. The base ingredients to any barbecue sauce have tremendous health properties so here are my arguments for eating lashings of homemade barbecue sauce. The base to most your traditional BBQ sauces... Read >

Free Social Networking Tools

As you get more and more sucked into social networking for your business it becomes increasingly important to ensure that you get the best efficiency out of the time that you spend. Maybe two or three years ago I would sit at my computer in a morning, ope... Read >

What Makes A Good Gas Grill Great

How do you distinguish between and average grill and a great one? So many of the gas grills that are marketed today are made in China where labor costs are so cheap that it's very difficult to distinguish between what is a good grill and what is truly a g... Read >