One part of my job is helping people name their identities. I find it fascinating that whenever I attend an event, be it social or business, the first question usually asked is ‘what do you do?“ On one level i get it. This is a nice unthreatening question that does not invade a stranger’s personal […]
Working with clients to enable them to achieve their career goals, I am reminded just how impatient we humans can be…. Encouraged by a buy-it-now-fix-it-quick society, (and I include myself in this whole heartedly!), we can lose heart very easily. Once we have chosen a purpose or mission, we quit when we don’t land on […]
In blazing offices and centrally heated homes it is easy to forget we need the essential vitamins provided by real sunlight and fresh air. In our synthesised environments we easily lose touch with the rhythms and cycles of the year. Whilst in our bodies we may know we needs a good dose of vitamin D, […]
Trusting that in the spaces, whilst it feels dark and winter-esque and full or dormancy, tiny tendrils of new ideas and plots and desires are reaching tentatively outwards. Later they will extend out into the world. In the meantime’s, let them secretly grow and whisper your encouragement. Wait for them to ‘become’. To learn more […]
Slowly but surely, here on in, the days will get longer and the light will return. Even though we cannot see it yet, small seedlings, snug beneath the soil, begin to send tentative tendrils downwards to seek the nourishment they need in order to flourish. We humans are no different. Whilst the days are dark, […]
I begin this blog with a warning. “Don’t try and change everything.” Why do I say this? Because of bitter experience! After festive excesses I make a million pledges as I groan over my stuffed stomach and worry over my empty bank account. I resolve to eat less, earn more, be grateful for what I […]