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We're Australasia's #1 Life Coaching school with a mission to inspire the extraordinary and empower you to create a life you love fully on your terms. We bring world-class research-based and result-proven coaching models & methodologies to allow our coaches to create incredible transformation in their lives and the lives of their clients. We are a recognised training provider (RTO Code 21564). Our courses and trainings are divided into 3 categories: Personal Growth, Coaching Education and Business & Marketing. For more information click the link below
https://www.thecoachinginstitute.com.au/

29/10/2026

Your Future Self Already Exists. Are You Making Decisions They’d Be Proud Of?

Most of us are navigating life like a pinball machine.

Bouncing from one thing to the next reacting, not choosing. No real direction. No goalpost.

But research tells us something powerful: your future self already exists.

They’re waiting for you. And the only thing standing between you and them is the quality of the decisions you’re making right now.

Here’s the shift: start making decisions that your future self is proud of.

Not perfect decisions. Not fearless decisions. Just ones that are moving you consistently, intentionally towards your goals and your dreams.

Because your personal growth doesn’t just determine where you end up.
It determines how you think. How much you trust yourself.
How you feel about yourself every single day. And how deeply you can connect with the people around you.

This is your invitation.

🌟 Join a FREE global training experience:
How to Become a Successful Coach

It’s about clarity, capability, and understanding what it really takes to become a coach

You’ll discover:
✅ The foundations of professional coaching
✅ How great coaches think, listen, and lead
✅ What the real pathway into coaching actually looks like

🎤 Featuring world-class leaders and coaches:
Rashid Mubashir
Remi Pearson
John Assaraf
Brian Tracy
…and more

🗓 Saturday 31st October
🌍 Streaming LIVE worldwide

If this year is about choosing growth, contribution, and purpose secure your free place now.

👉 Register here:
https://www.globalsuccessinstitute.com/becoming-successful-coach-matt-wickens

29/10/2026

Happy Halloween from !!
Get spooky with us! 🎃💀👻

Disclaimer: No one was injured in the taking of this photo 🔪🔪🔪🔪

28/10/2026

If you’ve been quietly helping people around you and you’re not sure if you’re doing it “right” read this.

You are probably already doing more than you think.

You listen in a way most people don’t.

You sit with someone’s pain without rushing to solve it.

You ask questions that make people stop and think.

What you might be missing is the structure that makes all of that reliable so it’s not just happening in your best moments, but in every conversation.

Here’s what great coaches learn to do consistently:

✔️ Listen reflectively: Not just to the words, but to the emotion underneath them
✔️ Acknowledge and validate: Before offering anything else. Being seen comes before being shifted.
✔️ Ask empowering questions: The kind that change the way someone sees their whole situation
✔️ Share insight: Your story, your experience, delivered in a way that’s about them, not you

This is a skill. It’s learnable. And there is a method to it.

If any of this resonated if you felt the pull of wanting to become a coach, I’d love to invite you to our upcoming training.

It’s called How to Become a Successful Coach.
https://tci.rocks/register

Save this post and click the link below to register. 🤍

27/10/2026

This is what most aspiring coaches get wrong.

That uncertainty was not a problem to be solved.

It was the beginning of something.

Rebecca describes it beautifully: the fire was already there. The training didn’t create it. It lit it 🔥 brighter and brighter, session by session, until she knew that she was going to be a successful coach.

But what moved her wasn’t only the coaching.

It was a rarer thing.

Someone asking her not just: can you learn to help people?

But: can you build a life doing it?

There is a significant difference between learning a skill and building a livelihood.
Between knowing how to help and knowing how to sustain yourself while you do.

A great coach also learns to embrace uncertainty as a life skill. Not something to overcome. Something to carry.

Rebecca carried it.

And she came out the other side not just with a certificate on the wall.

But with a career, a practice, and proof that you can hold both the doubt and the dream at the same time.

What would it mean for you to pursue the calling and build the life around it just like Rebecca?

🎧 Listen to Rebecca's incredible coaching journey below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6joX3ddLAos

27/10/2026

We have pathologised procrastination.

We call it laziness. Lack of discipline. A character flaw to be fixed with a better morning routine.

But what if procrastination is something far more human than that?

What if it is simply the body’s way of saying: there is fear here, and you have not yet made peace with it?

Here is what I notice when working with successful coaches

Fear does not vanish through understanding alone.

You can name it, analyse it, hold it with compassion and it will return, patiently, the moment action is required.

Because the only resolution to fear is action

Not the plan to act, to actually take that step.

And yet we live in a culture that asks us to feel ready before we move.
To feel safe before we risk. To feel healed before we start something new.

What would it mean to hold your fear gently to acknowledge it is real, that it is valid and to move anyway?

Not because the fear is gone.

But because you have decided something greater is possible on the other side of it.

The fear is not your enemy.

Your insistence that it must leave before you begin that is what keeps you still.

24/10/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮.

The job that pays the bills but has never once lit you up. The business that was supposed to be the sensible choice. The version of your life that looks good on paper and feels empty when nobody is watching.

𝐒𝐚𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞.

Safe is just a slower kind of failure. 🔥

If you are going to risk it either way, risk it on what you actually want. 💛

21/10/2026

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧.

They are carrying their fathers. Their grandfathers. Generations of men who were never allowed to feel what they were feeling.

And most of them have no idea they are doing it.

𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲’𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡.

The mother wounds he sees in every single man he coaches. The absent fathers. The silent grief passed down like a family heirloom nobody asked for.

𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞. 🔥

If you are raising a son, this episode is the one.

If you are the woman holding a family together while quietly wondering what nobody is holding together for you, this is the one too.

𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐍𝐨𝐰:

https://howtobecomeasuccessfulcoach.com/podcast/daniel-burgess-healthy-masculine-leadership/

Also on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and wherever else you find your podcasts.

21/10/2026

5 coaching questions to ask yourself when you feel stuck 💭

1️⃣ Will this move me closer to, or further away from, the life I want?
2️⃣ What would I do here if I was not afraid of being judged?
3️⃣ What am I tolerating that I no longer need to?
4️⃣ Whose permission am I still waiting for?
5️⃣ What would make my future self thank me for today?

You do not need all the answers at once. One honest answer is enough to start. ✨

Save this for the days that feel heavy. Which question stopped you?

20/10/2026

You know you have found your people when...

19/10/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.

Daniel Burgess calls it the backpack full of rocks.
Every unexpressed feeling. Every truth you have swallowed. Every moment you decided it was easier not to say it than to risk the fallout.

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐭.
You were not. You were building distance between you and them, one rock at a time.

The backpack spills over. Daniel names exactly how in this week’s episode of 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡. ✨

The disconnection with your partner. The distance with your kids. The quiet numbness you have been calling tired.
𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝. 𝐈𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤.

⏰ 𝐄𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝟕 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟐𝟐 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 ⏰

If you have not caught up on previous episodes, head to:
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