Is it success if it’s not happy success?

Hi. I’m Steve Woolston.For 22 years, I’ve been helping professional people just like you to master mind and emotion so you can:

  • Melt stress, fear, self-doubt away.

  • Clear your mind and think more clearly.

  • Raise your professional game.

  • Succeed gloriously in life and work.

Here, you can join my email list, find out about my Happy Success Code group coaching program, and find out about my private coaching.It is about raising your game — but from the inside out!

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Steve has been there for me throughout 2023. His work continues to be profoundly important to me.He has continued to listen to my emotional baggage, helping me to unpack it so it feels lighter.With a single sentence of his carefully crafted words, spoken with gifted eloquence, I reflect, the weight lifts off my shoulders, and I can create a mission I must, can and will remember for the rest of my life.I know that any greater ability to serve my family, my friends, my clients, and my business partners that I will enjoy in 2024 and beyond, will be in no small part down to this wonderful human being.Nathan P-S, financial adviser

I came to Stephen’s coaching following a period of anxiety at work. Through the work we did, I have strengthened my emotional resilience and stabilized a much calmer way of working.He also helped me develop skills I use with my team and listen more.I am a great fan of Stephen's coaching and recommend it to others who need help in building their resilience.Stephen is now coaching members of my team and helping me build a coaching culture.Simon P, Managing Director

The course I attended was transformative for me both as a professional and as a human. I got a powerful blend of ideas and practices that are not only deeply interconnected but immediately applicable to real-world challenges.I particularly appreciated deep listening, which enhanced my ability to connect with others; self-observation, which brought clarity to my feelings, reactions and decisions; and regaining composure in high-pressure situations, enabling me to decrease my frustration and act.The live format in small groups added a layer of human connection and interactivity that made the experience truly impactful.Paola, Product Manager

The coaching I was fortunate enough to be gifted by you was life changing. It was a revelation and the start of a new unraveling. You worked intuitively with grace and depth.Through the questions you asked and the safety you provided, I was able to see something from my past had caused a limiting belief that has held me back so often. This was powerful, and I believe has been a major influence in enabling me to stop procrastinating and step up to create and share my new website.I take pleasure in recommending you to anyone who is looking to release blocks to evolving their business or personal lives. Your wisdom and knowledge combine to create something quite magical.Thank you!Emma W, professional artist

My time with Stephen has been transformative! His patient, kind, incisive approach allowed me to examine unhelpful thought patterns in entirely new ways. I made as much progress in terms of personal growth in ten sessions with Stephen as in ten years of therapy!I got concrete results. I kicked the habit of social media. I started a new, fun job that is having a positive impact on my physical and mental health. I abandoned guilt regarding things I can’t control, household chaos andw eight gain due to medication. I lost weight in a healthful way, accepting and loving my body, embracing an opportunity to get certified as a teacher in a new art form, and adopting new strategies in handling three very difficult personal challenges.Thank you, Stephen, for your sharing your wisdom in such a non-judgmental, generous way. I am forever grateful.Arin H, engineer and artist

Steve’s teaching is such a joy. He is passionate for people to really understand and benefit. The course was well constructed and easy to take in. I have benefited from this training already as I have overcome obstacles that were presenting me problems. I can thoroughly recommend Steve and his training.Yet W-L, operations consultant

The course I did with Steve was excellent in every respect. It was great value as it gave me a real understanding and the confidence to actively use what I learned in everyday life. I found it a life changing experience.Steve is an extremely effective trainer with endless enthusiasm and expertise. He is also an extremely approachable person. His attitude, encouragement and support make the course extra effective and enjoyable.I recommend Steve without reservation.Kay H, project manager

Stephen sees the bigger picture. His considerable, successful management experience allows him to know that the groundedness of individuals is at the core of ownership and responsibility for any enterprise.He is a walking demonstration of the ability to operate with dignity, grace and loving kindness, and knows how to create environments where others choose do the same.Bill Cumming, Boothby Institute

As well as being fun, my coaching with Stephen was very illuminating. He gave me plenty of food for thought and made me stop and consider the way we think when anxious or scared.I had light bulb moments of perception and not resisting my stream of thought. It’s exhausting and futile, so no wonder I was forever feeling tired.Two things sprang to mind. I love metaphors, especially visual ones. Going with the thought stream made me think of Dory, where Marlin and Dory learn to ride the current with the help of their new friends Crush and Squirt! The second image was of Dumbledore in Harry Potter, physically casting away his thoughts.I learned to see I have power over how I react to my self-critical and anxious thoughts. This was a revelation so thank you!Sarah G, working mother

Stephen has helped me get my life back on track after having my first child and returning to work.It’s been a huge transition, but our weekly coaching sessions and my follow-up homework has allowed me to regain my confidence, develop brilliant strategies to support my well-being, and increase my performance at work. I could not recommend him more highly!His coaching style is practical, to-the-point, non-judgemental and empathetic. He cares.If you seek change and want effective, simple work to help you on your way, look no further.Shash S, executive working mother

Thank you for the level-headedness I have developed.Julie, professional photographer

I signed on with Steve to enhance my personal development, mind set and interpersonal skills. He immediately made me feel able and comfortable to be completely open and honest about my flaws and areas to be addressed and improved.I produced actions and strategies which I now apply regularly and with success in my day-to-day work.I feel a lot more confident and prepared to deal with challenges when things do not go to plan.I would wholeheartedly recommend Steve’s coaching to anyone.Lindsey D, manager

I came to Steve as a graduate concerned about interviews and job applications. He coached me in thought, nerves, interview preparation, how to tackle tasks that may seem daunting, and produce results in doing so.Our sessions put me at ease for interviews and enter the working world, with tools to amend and utilize as I progress in business.I would highly recommend Steve’s coaching to anyone who’s starting out in their career or pivoting to a new area in their career.Zara C, graduate

Steve has been coaching me for the past six months. I can safely say it’s been an enlightening, enjoyable, exciting process.Steve has a wealth of knowledge and is very generous with it. He has shared so many new concepts, techniques and skills with me. We delved deep into things that are holding me back and he’s helped me move forward from them.He’s helped me to grow as a person. He’s helped me to become a better coach.Pip L, coach

The coaching I had with Steve was very helpful and enlightening. He helped me to prepare for an important interview and to look at some family concerns in a completely different light.He has a natural ability to work with people. He works with subtlety. It often wasn’t until after the sessions that I really realized what he did. I always left the sessions feeling extremely positive and ready to tackle my challenges.I thoroughly recommend Steve.Karl C, senior manager

I had developed an idea and approached another coach for help. They left me feeling that it was unachievable and wouldn’t be necessary if I was better in some way. Something that I’d been passionate about suddenly looked silly and irrelevant.I talked to Steve about my experience, and his approach was completely different. He helped me re-engage with why I thought the idea was important and worthwhile. I got my enthusiasm back and, from our work together, I was able to develop the idea and get it out with a very positive uptake.Katie B, senior manager

You can trust Stephen to guide you in your desired direction with integrity, skill and compassion. In a world where so much is promised it feels important to find someone who offers a voice of honesty and the presence of sincerity.Stephen has a heart and mind perfectly suited to assist you in your journey through life. I feel honored to consider him a friend and colleague.Katie Abbott, Pause Place director

The qualities that Stephen brings to his coaching are perfectly suited. Like his presence, his work is subtle and yet strong. Intuitively, he knows where to listen, what to ask and where to guide. He has integrity, skill, experience, and, most importantly of all, he cares.Whatever you’re looking for this is a man you want in your corner.Be warned, working with Stephen could change your life.Lisa Wood, coach and therapist

Thank you so much for helping my wife. Her anxiety about speaking at our daughter’s wedding caused so many tears. She felt so much more confident after your work and I’m happy to report she gave a wonderful speech. Thanks again.Husband of Mrs P, a client

I had resolved to do some new things in my life, but I found myself avoiding them, despite seeing the clear advantage in doing them.Steve helped me unravel everything that was holding me back. I got totally back on track. I found his style very professional and his embedding techniques extremely effective.Andre W, Project Manager

Just watching Stephen’s approach to the delivery of the coaching shows he practices what he teaches and never far away is the reminder that everyone is human and to bring all back into perspective—balance.I have used many of the points allowing me to feel calmer at work and home. The fact that I felt each week the sessions fell so they made an impact on how I approached myself and others is testimony that that all things learnt support you directly and can have an impact on your confidence as a result.I will miss talking with Stephen and the coaching group every few weeks.Fran B, corporate accountant

I’m interested in success but I’m not interested in success without wellness. Success with wellness is the conversation I want to have.

When we live and work from a clearer and more peaceful mind, we don’t just become happier and healthier in ourselves. It increases our impact and influence in the world. It raises our game!

How You Can Work With Me

👇Experience it for FREE

FIRST: You can grab your FREE GUIDES to mastering your stress response and recovering your strategic thinking time, which will also subscribe you to regular insights and ideas direct to your inbox. (Click here.)SECOND: Watch the newsletter for news of my FREE Open Conversation Zoom calls, where I talk about problems and goals of Happy Success.

👇Join the group coaching class

You can join the Happy Success Code Group Coaching Program, which journey of online, evenings-based online group sessions plus assignments, with the option of additional one-to-one sessions. (Click here.)

👇Work with me in private, one-to-one coaching

The most premium way for us to work together is in private coaching, where we can go deep into the problems and goals you bring — and through them, transform how you are in the world.

  • We slow down and create one of the clearest, deepest thinking spaces you have experienced.

  • We explore and unravel your fears, insecurities, and challenges.

  • We explore and transform your relationship with thought, which is the key to mastering mind and emotion.

  • We explore how you can apply the clarity you gain in the world.

  • You do so — and experience the change.

Talk to Me

The great news is you don’t need to make any commitments or spend any money to try this out.You contact me. We have a deep, free, conversation. No pressure. No obligations. If you want to go further, I will guide you. If you just want to enjoy what you get from the conversation, that’s fine. There will be no hard sell.So, talk to me if you are struggling in some way, you need clarity on problems or issues you face, of if your work is testing your mettle.Talk to me if you want to create a more joyous experience of your life and work.

The coaching connection is powerful. We connect and we explore. As we do, feelings heal, problems unravel, the way gets clearer, and change happens.

If your work is too important for you to take out time for self-care, it’s too important not to.

I don’t want you to just change how you meet today’s problems and goals. I want you to change how you meet every problem and goal you will ever encounter.

Are happy successful people just lucky?

Or can happy success by developed?

Before I answer, let me introduce myself. My name is Steve Woolston, and for the last 22 years, I’ve been coaching professional people just like you to master mind and emotion so you can:

  • Melt stress, fear, self-doubt away.

  • Clear your mind and think more clearly.

  • Raise your professional game.

  • Succeed gloriously in your life and work.

To succeed without the stress and enjoy happy success!

I’ve noticed something about happy successful people.

I’m talking about people who are professionally successful, but enjoy a happy, clear, peaceful mind with great relationships.

  • They don’t struggle with toxic levels of stress.

  • They don’t struggle with fear, anxiety, or self-doubt.

  • They don’t drain themselves with over-thinking.

  • They don’t agonize over decisions.

  • They don’t sacrifice all of their me time to endlessly catch up.

What’s more, they didn’t have to drop out or give up on their careers or challenging projects to do that.

Yes, they work hard, but they are not run ragged by it.

Here’s what they do:

  • They think more clearly and make better decisions.

  • They can switch off when they want to.

  • They get good work done and have their me time.

  • They enjoy their me time.

  • They develop happy, loving relationships.

It’s not that they have no stress, but it’s the good stress — the stimulating, exciting, motivating stress.The kind that is deeply rewarding when the work it motivates is done.It’s what they call eustress — as opposed to distress.

I’m not talking about people who are successful but miserable.

I’m also not talking about:

  • People who run themselves ragged.

  • People who are addicted to mind management techniques.

  • People who only wear the mask of being happy.

  • People who throw money at luxury for temporary relief.

The people I’m talking about have a naturally different relationship with their thinking, life, and work.

They are:

  • Broadly relaxed.

  • Motivated.

  • Never blinded or intoxicated by rage.

In terms of doing and being, they:

  • Have clear vision and clear boundaries.

  • Create space in their lives.

  • Enjoy their relationships.

  • Enjoy their peaceful time.

They do it by simply living from different beliefs and philosophy.

Basically they are the happy successful.

And I’ve helped people like you get there.If you are a professional person and:

  • You get toxic levels of stress, fear, anxiety and self-doubt.

  • You struggle to think clearly.

  • You over-think.

  • You feel run ragged by other people and deadlines.

  • You don’t have time for yourself.

  • You don’t have time to invest in relationships that matter.

  • You struggle to switch off.

  • You struggle to be at peace — and enjoy it.

Then this is for you!

Unless you are happy for things to stay as they are.

If you do, fair play to you. In that case, this wouldn’t be for you.

The people you wish you were like started where you are!

They struggled with these things too.They kept telling themselves that happiness could come later and they’d be happy when they got what they want.They just didn’t notice that the goal posts kept moving.

If they can do it, you can do it.

And the good news is it’s not even hard work, but it is about building a new relationship with thought with life and with work.That can take some time, repetition, and nurturing, but it isn’t hard.I can help you cut that time down. I can guide you more precisely to how you nurture that so that you can be like them.it’s not that there’s a rigid formula — but there is a systematic approach, and that’s what I can guide you with.

So, why act?

Because life is too short — and we only get one.It’s a tragedy to not do the best we care to be happy and successful.It’s a pity to let that waste away.

And why act now?

Because there’s no time like the present.Because the more we hesitate, and the more excuses we make, the more we keep ourselves stuck.

I have been there too!

I may have even had it worse than you. I had a stress related breakdown at 19 and spent all of my 20s and the first half of my 30s struggling with stress, anxiety, fear and self-doubt.Oh, I was professionally successful.I even socialized and smiled and laughed.But, deep down, I was unhappy.I was running myself ragged trying to be worthy — to not be a failure.I suffered to the point where I simply needed to change. It wasn’t a choice for me anymore.I sought out my coaches and trainers. Some of them helped me a lot. Some of them, not so much.I did more with those who helped me make a difference.

The Happy Success Code isn’t something I made up.

It’s my consolidation of the most transformative ideas from:

  • Presence Intelligence.

  • The Three Principles of Mind, Consciousness, and Thought.

  • Stoicism.

  • Practical happiness psychology.

  • Coaching with DISC personality insights.

  • Coaching with the Enneagram.

  • Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

This work will systematically guide you into developing that new relationship with mind, your thinking, life, and work.A new relationship that means you suffer your thinking less and the gain emotional freedom to do more — with peaceful happiness.

You can start your journey with the Happy Success Code group coaching program.

Not everyone can afford the premium to hire a private coach and work one-to-one in deep, dedicated, bespoke, personal coaching.I created the Happy Success Code group coaching program to give people like you the opportunity to do work you’d do with such a coach but at a lower cost by doing it as part of a group.It is a six-month group coaching experience that involves evening based group sessions, so you don’t have to take any time off work or out of your weekend.There is learning, There is guided exploration. There are assignments to turn ideas into felt experience in your life and work.The beauty is it doesn’t even matter if you miss one or two sessions as we can always catch you up with anything you miss.

There are two levels at which you can join.

STANDARD ENTRY gets you access to all of the evenings based conversations that are part of the group coaching program.VIP ENTRY gets you that, plus access to a private one-to-one session every month for the 6 month duration.

Don’t make another excuse!

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My Story

I am a professional coach and trainer with over thirty years’ experience in large, high pressure corporate environments. I am well, but it wasn’t always so.I used to be one of the stressed successful. Successful, yes, but paying a heavy price in stress, anxiety, and working too many hours.I was sort-of happy on the surface, but, deep down, I was unhappy and insecure. I slept badly and burned out. I realized something needed to change.Through the work I did with my coaches and teachers, I discovered the transformational ideas I work with now. I applied what I learned to my life and turned my experience around.I work with professionals who are where I was then.I know your world. I’ve been there.

I don’t coach because I’m greater than you. I’m not. I coach because you’re greater than you realize.

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Last updated: 16/08/26.

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