I am a planner. I assemble my clothes for the next day, the night before. I have a destination in mind for my business. I always finely plan my coaching sessions…… And interestingly enough I frequently find I’ve been thrown a curve ball. Where I planned an outfit for a sunny day, there’s a downpour, […]
Asking For Help is Human. When I was small I was sure that being a grownup meant that I would have all the answers. Now, from the perspective of my fifth decade, I know this to be a very erroneous expectation! I think between the ages of 16 & 26 years I pretended I knew […]
In business as in life, I find my best survival tool is my sense of humour! When I have sent the very client who is extremely particular about things being done correctly, a corrupted document, in a manner that seems almost impossible to do deliberately, after apologising, I had to laugh….. After arriving at the […]
If your personal or professional situation has become unbearable or untenable, it seems important to risk saying your truth. There are kind ways of saying it, but it does still need be said. To remain in situations that do not agree with us, whether it challenges us ethically, or emotionally, or if something else in […]
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 […]