There are days where we lose self-belief and things seem hard and we can feel ‘less than’ The people who surround us….. From this place in ourselves we can recognise the strengths in others but only the vulnerabilities in ourselves. These can be dark days. Perhaps it helps at these times to hold on to […]
I had a weird experience last night. At a meeting I noticed that the tension between myself and a really amazing colleague had dissolved. Whilst there had been no malintent, I think I had been little awed by her brilliance and had perhaps been prickly or defensive in return? So on quitting the venue last […]
This is a question we often ask ourselves, but in this case I do not mean ‘are you running yourself into the ground trying to fit everything and everyone that you ‘should’ into your day?’ What I am asking is “what are you doing with the Spaces In-between?” Within the pauses, the sitting in traffic, […]
As someone who was an introverted child, my dad still screws his face up occasionally and says the words ‘but you were such a strong little thing’. I can sense that we had a perhaps a few confrontations whilst I was small. Whilst this may have been a pain for my parents, once I have […]
I don’t know if this applies to you, but I have had it pointed out to me (often actually!), that the professional commitments I make and the responsibilities i shoulder, and the expectations I have of myself sometimes do not honour my human needs. It is not clients or business partners that cop the brunt […]
When you have a passion for something then it is authentic. When something is authentic people ‘get’ that authenticity. It doesn’t matter if you communicate by email or smoke signals, in person or by pigeon, the person on the receiving end of your communication will ‘get’ that you are real, genuinely excited by what you […]
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 […]
There is no such thing as perfection. There is no Perfect Mother, no perfect Boss, no perfect Practitioner, no Perfect family and no Perfect Christmas….. What there is in reality is a series of brilliant moments, joined by a lot of learning experiences….. Please go easy on yourself will you? It will alleviate any sting […]
As a result of some dull form filling. I’ve just been revisiting my diary of the past few years. Ive been noticing just how powerful the effect of my saying out-loud what my intention was and the effect that has had on my professional world. In 2013 I voiced I would like to start a […]
I don’t know about you but sometimes when I am given lots of facts about a problem or challenge I feel strongly about, it can trigger over-thinking. I want to meet the challenge. I want the answer right now, especially if it is something that I am fearful about. Be it a business pitch, a […]