From Sterile to Style

by Evelyne Brink

Living with creativity is what makes my heart beat faster. Making something that wasn’t there before- something pretty or useful or fun or that sounds good-fills me with deep satisfaction. Creating your wonderful life to me also includes arts and crafts and homemaking. Yes somebody is broody, allright. Turns out we  just had our bathroom [...]

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Are you doing what you should?

by Evelyne Brink

  Are you working at your optimum? Do you want to be more effective, productive, using your time wisely? Could it be that you have more than enough information of how to organize yourself, you’ve read the books about motivating yourself? But you just aren’t really doing what you “should”. Why is that? I had [...]

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Forget the Law of Attraction!

June 7, 2011

Why the Law of Attraction doesn’t work, what does and how to have it all. For real.

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The Myth of Maintenance

May 24, 2011

There is more to a great life than upkeep says Evelyne Brink. “I should maintain my level of fitness!” says my friend who wants to run a marathon. “ I need to work myself to confidence and maintain that level so I can really stand out in the interview” says a colleague. Maintenance sounds like [...]

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Dazed and confused?

May 18, 2011

Do you feel dazed and confused? Wondering how to get out of the haziness? Uncover this gentle approach for more effective, happy living.

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Who has the Say: Positive Psychologist or Life Coach?

May 11, 2011

How important is Academia for Personal Development? Who has the Say: Life Coach or Positive Psychologist?Coaches sometimes have a stigma of being untrained people working from personal life experience telling others how to live their lives. On what ground do they think they can work with people? What makes them think their experience can really be useful for everyone else out there?

Positive Psychology is the science researching well-being. It was founded by Dr. Martin Seligman in 2000 conducting the first batch of experiments collecting data about happiness, wellbeing and what makes us flourish in life.

The field of traditional psychology is based on what isn’t working in the human behaviour and psyche, looks as dysfunction, traumas and how treat them. In simplistic terms how to get someone from minus 10 to 0. Positive Psychology is researching what makes us go to a plus 10.

As a coach, I work with what makes us go to plus infinite so getting direct access to and participating in the science behind what I do could be hugely beneficial to back up the validity of my work.

But why would I need to back up the validity?

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To Be or Not to Be (Pregnant)

March 15, 2011

March 2011 Welcome to this adventure update live from “the brink”. A little warning: this is a long and intense and very personal article. You will never regret taking the 20mins it should take to read this and I certainly would love you to connect in that way. Some of you already know the gist [...]

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Songs noone knows

February 26, 2011

Some songs I kept a little secret. Some…. a lot. I have tons of music written that I haven’t shared with the world. There is probably many reasons. this one here is called Lisa. It’s longer than a usual pop song and it is rather emotional -at least for me. I played it to a [...]

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Is Balance Old-School?

February 7, 2011

My friend, Power Up Coach Jayne Morris and me chatted about the difference of our work. We are both successful coaches but where she targets the “ busy, successful women” or in other words “stressed-out corporate types seeking change”, my client base consists of creative and talented people who are looking to create success and [...]

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Supporting Actors

January 21, 2011

Actors Making It -In my unstoppable efforts to stop struggling from Artists or should I say Artists from struggeling, I am setting off on a mission and as the online marketing world would suggest- I have niched. almost sounds like a mixture of “hatched” and “nested”. I’m not just nesting in my private life, I [...]

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