A meeting with my business mentor today had me noticing how essential it is to have mentors, supervisors and fellow coaches to notice my own blind spots. Feeling dulled and unmotivated I wasn’t really sure what I wanted from my meeting with this wise gentleman, but it was in the diary and I showed up […]
I advocate taking a business strategy day every 6 months. For myself this has felt like a luxury given that I am a sole trader, and have a multitude of other roles to juggle in my life. However, in service of walking the talk that I talk, I do it anyway. What is becoming more […]
I am a professional planner. By which a mean, given half a chance, I would be a real mind-mapping, list-ticking, diary-scheduling, attitude-choosing, control-freak of a planner. My days can be a series of alarms set to remind me of the next client, the scheduled Skype session, the shift between the roles of mother, coach, supervisor, […]
Don’t. It’s as simple as that. You can choose not to fear those who have ‘authority’. You can choose to challenge self-appointed experts, if, (and there is a caveat), you feel it is an ethical & morally sound thing to do. The best people who have authority, or who are considered to be experts, have […]
My colleague announced yesterday “I have never met anyone who is SO curious before”, as I hypothesised about the motivations of a neighbour. They dad reversed their van, rather forcefully, into their own (adjoining), house. We all felt the impact… My Beloved’s response would be: ‘they just fxxked up!’. My question is always ‘but why?’. […]
Thoughts on Healing in a business context: During a business networking event, a fellow guest approached me what I thought was quite an extraordinary question: He asked me if i was a ‘healer’. Almost without hesitation i replied ‘Yes!’. “But you are a career coach” I hear my internal saboteur exclaim, and, this is merely […]