Stop! Just withdraw and give yourself five minutes & breathe. Centre yourself: Use a changing breath: close your eyes. Breathe deeply in through your nose and all the way out through your month. Repeat. This will bring you into the present. Centre yourself in your body: What can you see, smell, feel, hear and taste….. […]
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 […]
Sometimes, when you have a deadline (or two!), you just need to get your head down, out of hours, and focus. & It really, REALLY will pay off….. I promise! To learn more of working with Rebecca click here: The Daemon Career Coach
En famille is perhaps the most challenging context to bring a new self to. To reflect rather than react. Old buttons. Ingrained ways of assuming and acting. Not toxic just non-serving. Important to pause, as with a client, check internally, check contextually, check the individual in front of of me….. Not ‘mum’ or ‘step-brother’, but […]
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 […]
Sounds ‘sacred’ but for the purposes of this blog lies much more in the realms of the profane. When we give, be it gifts on a birthday, or time to a colleague or assistance to a stranger, we generally receive in return. That grin of gratitude, or the sigh of relief or the moment shared […]
We do all have the ability to put on many different hats during each and every day. As you move fluidly between spouse, coach, professional, entrepreneur, colleague, supervisor, learner driver, mother, gardener, cook et al I have one piece of advice……Take a minute, even if it is only one minute, to take a deep breath, […]
:In very hot shop, a carton of apple juice in my hand, running between nursery and provision of supervision, I discovered I had no wallet. Not the end of the world, but, not arriving home with that aforementioned juice would have had consequences further than the realisation of my daft ness in my inability to […]
I have been reminded in the last few days just how important people are to me…. Whilst it ounds obvious, it is easy to forget just how much we need each other as we career chaotically through our busy every day lives, and that we cannot easily do this alone. A Colleague with a cancer […]
It’s easy to notice the irritations of our lives. The small problems that seemingly will not be solved. There’s 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!), […]