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Helping People Achieve Personal & Professional Success. Let’s Chat! ☎️ https://markbarnescoaching.as.me/ Welcome to Mark Barnes Coaching. Let's chat!

As a Master Coach & Practitioner of NLP, TimeLine Therapy, & Hypnosis, I Help People Remove the Pain from their Past so they Create a Brighter Future. My mission is to empower business owners, and their teams, to achieve their personal and professional goals. With over 25 years of experience in leadership, regional management, and business development, I fully understand and appreciate the highs a

nd lows of business ownership. I specialise in life and business coaching, encompassing personal, professional, and business development. My ideal clients are small to medium-sized business owners, particularly those with 5-25 employees, these businesses often face growing pains and need effective processes to overcome challenges. My unique approach combines traditional coaching with advanced personal development techniques using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time-Line Therapy, and Hypnosis to support clients at a subconscious level, enhancing their quality of life and business outcomes. That said, my systems and modalities can apply to all which is why I offer a range of services tailored to meet your personal or professional needs:

One-on-One Coaching
Group Coaching
Workshops
Online Courses

My Business Owner Support Services, (aka B.O.S.S. Program), is designed to provide comprehensive personal, professional and business support. This 12month program includes four layers to maximise impact and outcomes:

Personal Discovery, Personal Breakthrough, Business Discovery, and Business Breakthrough. My goal is to help as many business owners as possible, providing the support they need during tough times and someone in their corner to celebrate their wins with during the good times. By offering the highest quality service and support, I aim to help business owners and their teams achieve their personal, professional, and business goals. This leads to improved profitability, job satisfaction and employee retention, which ultimately leads to happier business owners and customers. Interested in transforming your life and your business? You can reach me via:

Website: MarkBarnesCoaching.com
Email: [email protected]
Mobile: +61 419 772 732
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Let's work together to unlock your potential and achieve the success you deserve!

08/10/2025

Generalisations: The Silent Limiters of Growth

One of the most common traps I see in the personal development and NLP space is generalisation, and it’s one of the sneakiest.

Generalisations are mental shortcuts. They take one moment, one experience, or one belief, and stretch it across everything.

They sound like:

• “I always get this wrong.”
• “People never listen.”
• “That’s just how I am.”

And the danger is, when we believe those statements we stop seeing the exceptions. We stop seeing possibility.

In NLP, generalisations are part of the way our mind filters experience, along with deletion and distortion. They simplify reality so we can process it faster.

But if we don’t challenge them, they also simplify us.

The moment you start noticing your own always, never, and everyone statements, that’s when you start to regain control of your mind. Because every time you catch one, you’ve found a limitation disguised as truth.

When you change your language, you change your perception.

When you change your perception, you change your possibilities.

So here’s a question worth asking yourself today:

Where am I generalising my past, and limiting my future?

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05/10/2025

The 3 Biggest Tests of Character…

If you want to know who someone really is, watch how they handle three things: time, stress, and success.

⏰ TIME, because anyone can hold up a charade for a while. People can say all the right things, wear the right mask, and play the right part. But time reveals what consistency conceals. Eventually, the truth of someone’s character always comes through.

😰 STRESS, because that’s when emotional regulation gets tested. Pressure doesn’t just create diamonds, it exposes cracks. When we’re under stress, we don’t rise to the level of our expectations; we fall to the level of our habits, our discipline, and our integrity. How we treat others, how we think, how we respond, that’s when character is loudest: and,

🏆 SUCCESS (especially other people’s) because how you respond to someone else winning says everything about your mindset.

Do you celebrate them? Learn from them? Or do you start to feel threatened, like their success somehow takes away from yours?

That’s where tall poppy syndrome comes from, the illusion that someone else’s growth highlights our lack of it.

The Truth is, Time Reveals You, Stress Refines You, and How You Handle Other People’s Success Defines You.

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18/09/2025

A Solution that Doesn’t Solve the Problem.

Like many Australians alcohol was ingrained in my life, my career, my identify. It was normal. It was expected. It was part of who I thought I was.

But here’s the truth, for me, alcohol was often an avoidance strategy. A coping mechanism. A way to take the edge off the day, to de-stress, a way to forget instead of facing the real stuff that needed attention.

Thirteen months ago, I stopped. No drinks, No More. And I’ll be honest with you it was challenging at times, because when you take away the opportunity to avoid life, life gets very real.

But it’s also been the best decision I’ve ever made.
Because it’s in that raw, clear space, where there’s nowhere to hide, that the real growth happens.

You’re forced to face your thoughts and feelings. You learn to process and set clearer intentions. You find the strength to take action that actually creates change.

I’m not here to demonise alcohol. Sharing a drink socially isn’t the enemy. But I will say this, the highest performing people on this planet, the people living with clarity, purpose, and direction, they don’t lean on alcohol as a crutch.

And from my own experience I’ve found the freedom, clarity, and growth that comes from stepping away from it is worth every challenge.

Because in the end, alcohol might be a solution, but a clear mind and open heart will always solve the problem.

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15/09/2025

You Can’t Have One Without the Other

The Law of Balance suggests everything seeks equilibrium, light and dark, joy and sorrow, gain and loss. It’s about the natural counterweights that exist in life.

When you’re doing something positive or creating a positive impact, some people will be inspired by what you do and do something themselves. Some will want what you have and try to take from you. Some will hate on you, just because its easier to do.

Don’t let their darkness dim your light. Keep showing up. Keep shining. Keep moving forward. Because your light might just be the spark that someone else needs.

🧡🤍🖤

04/09/2025

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.

There is wonderful saying from Carl Jung, “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

What we believe to be a reaction to other people, is more often than not a meeting with an unexamined part of us.

The trait that triggers you may be a habit you also carry (but can’t stand seeing), a value you’ve disowned (“I’m not allowed to be like that”), or a wound that still needs attention.

Note: Not every trigger is a mirror though. If a boundary is being crossed, protect it. But when your reaction is bigger than the situation, that’s a pretty good clue.

So, next time you're feeling triggered by somebody else, try this.

Pause & breathe (3 deep breaths).
Name it: “I’m feeling ___ (angry/defensive/embarrassed).”
Mirror question: Where does this live in me?
Do I do this sometimes?
Do I wish I could (in a healthier way)?
What old story is this poking?

Choose a response: set a boundary, make a clean request, or let it go.

Bottom line: Triggers are our teachers. Wonderfully powerful when we use them to build self-awareness, not so much when we use them as a reason to judge or attack ourselves.

31/08/2025

✨ Break Free From What’s Holding You Back ✨

We all carry significant emotional events from the past, moments that shaped us, but sometimes in ways that continue to weigh us down. These unresolved emotions can quietly influence how we think, feel, and act today.

That’s where Timeline Therapy® comes in.

Timeline Therapy® is one of the most powerful tools I use as a coach to help clients release negative emotions and reprogram their past experiences into a source of strength.

✅ Let go of anger, sadness, fear, guilt, and hurt.
✅ Reframe your past so it empowers your present.
✅ Come back to now with a clear mind and open heart.
✅ Step forward with confidence, focus, and freedom.

I’ve helped people remove decades of anger and a lifetime of guilt with Timeline Therapy®. I know how well it works, so if you’re ready to stop being held back and start living fully, I’d love to show you how Timeline Therapy® can help.

👉 Book your obligation-free discovery call today.
Click the link below to schedule a time that suits you.

https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=18687792&appointmentType=14961679

If you’ve made it this far, it means you are ready for a change. Let’s chat! If after that call you feel I could help and we could work well together, we’ll figure out the rest.

Talk soon,

Mark.

🧡🤍🖤

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09/12/2024

What are the 6 major human needs and why do they matter?

10/08/2024

Learn from your past, live for your future.

07/07/2024

Been doing a lot behind the scenes but looking forward to bringing the B.O.S.S. Program to Northern Territory Business Owners.

If you're looking to grow and scale your business in 2024/25, here's your chance to do so affordably and effectively.

For more information or to book your clarity call, click this link

https://markbarnescoaching.com/business-coaching

Special AI Marketing offer for early adopters.

We kick off on the 8/8/24. Abundance awaits.

31/01/2024

on the Blockchain. ⛓️

Massive shoutout and congrats again to the magnificent group that invested in themselves, their financial education and their financial futures over the Aussie Day long weekend. 🇦🇺

These legends learnt about Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain Technology and the Crypto Markets, and left with the tools, tips and techniques they need to make the most out of that market. 🚀

When you think about crypto whats the first things that comes to mind? 🤔

Do your financial strategies over the next 2-5 years include cryptocurrency? 💰

If it does not, you might be missing out on the best opportunity our generation has to create positive change for our kids and their kids too. 🙌

We’re not taught this in school so it’s no surprise we spend our lives trapped in a cycle of trying to make money when markets go up. 📈

We’ve been doing crypto coaching in Darwin now for about 4 years and met some amazing people throughout the NT and around the world as a result. 🌏

Have been lucky enough to stop a few from being scammed also, which was why we started doing it in the first place. You see, the reason we get scammed is because we don’t believe we can do it ourselves. Spend a weekend with us and you’ll quickly realise that you can. 💯

So, if you’d like to learn the fundamental skills you need to accumulate and invest in crypto, and how to make money when prices are going up & down, please get in touch. Our 2 day workshop is perfect for you.👇

Or, if you’ve already got some skills and would like to have some support and accountability, you might want to join our crypto community. 🙎‍♀️🙎🙎‍♂️

Intereated? Drop us a comment down below, send me a message or email [email protected] and I’ll get in touch. 📱

There’s no I in crypto, but there’s two in Darwinning.

Drop us a line, let’s win together.

🧡📈🖤

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