Transition is a really hard task mistress and is the difference between ‘change’ and ‘transition’. Dspite our fears, the practicality of change is far more immediately and outwardly rewarding, than the internal root-deep excavation of transition. Transition can be an isolating and lonely path. It is the time when we choose a different way, set […]
How do you find what you want to do? In my experience as a practitioner, it is usually a process of elimination. Whilst of course there are people who, when they first touch the keys of a piano during childhood, know this is what they will do for the rest of their lives. For the […]
If you do not celebrate your learning and reward you achievements, you will become undernourished. Beginning the next project, job or qualification, when you are already undernourished, makes it more difficult to do. Keep repeating this cycle and you will burn out. Fact. Stop, think of something you did well in the last day […]
How often do you pause to listen? We do not hear ourselves, or our own needs and desires, for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons is practical. Most of us are very busy, juggling work and home and family and friends and community and it seems there is little time to set aside […]
Ever had one of those days when you don’t know where to begin Sometimes an Urgent/Important Grid will work. On some days it feels like all the items on your to-do list fall into the B category of ‘immediate or crisis’ priority and then where do you start? Whatever your professional role, the list of […]
It’s easy to notice the irritations of our lives. The small problems that seemingly will not be solved. Theres the colleague who is leaving that piece of work undone, again! there’s child who stubbornly refuses to meet expectations. There is the husband who appears to maliciously (like he has the time to plot against me!), […]