That’s what I learned today. Whether you’re angry, lonely, frightened, despairing, or exhausted, if it’s in service of your passion and your purpose, show up! You have no idea of the outcome, for this is not your responsibility. What we can be almost certain of is that nothing will shift if we don’t do our […]
it wasn’t until I was in my early 30’s the I began to recognise that to be envious has a purpose. As a child I had held the message that ‘envy was a sin’ and I am not even from a religious background. This message permeates all layers of our society & culture. It thus […]
……Is the Facebook status of a colleague of mine. I have to say that I concur. I never envisioned being my own boss, but I suppose it was inevitable given my intolerance of systems that do not work and my level of impatience. when I desire change I desire it now and only a small […]
I am unsure if this is a gender difference, although in Linda Babcock’s book “why women don’t ask’ I am certainly sure she would name it as such, but whilst I was swimming this morning I noticed an interesting shift in me. As a fairly proficient and certainly a keen swimmer, I realised that I […]
Whilst this sounds like one of those blindingly obvious statements, it is amazing just how often we do not do so. Often when making a plan for the future, we actually start from where we would like to be or indeed the plan was where we believe we should be. ‘Should’ is an important word […]
It might seem like an arse-backwards phrase but it strikes me increasingly, that whilst we might extend love or kindness and friendship to others, and they in return to us, we often behave in an opposite manner internally towards ourselves. Where we would treat clients with unconditional positive regard, we often judge ourselves hardest. Where […]
…….is not a phrase that is said too often. It is something that is usually viewed as an asset to any team or project. As a completer-finisher I (& those who know, love or work with me!), know only too well that there are downsides to this trait. Firstly, because I have no intention of […]
I never ‘got’ that word when I was small. Somehow when I heard it said of me I would understand somehow that I was ‘different’ from other people and inherent within that was a separateness. It seemed as if others stood together and I stood apart, alone? I only write of this now because I […]
Was my mother’s advice today on the phone, and, sometimes, I even listen to her….? The previous day had been an unmitigated disaster (& I shan’t bore you with the details of a 5 year olds birthday!), and today was busy being one of those days when, depleted, everything I touched turned to shite …… […]
The universe is arranged backwards in one fundamental aspect: The fact that you do not get the courage to do the thing you are scared of until AFTER you have done it, always has seemed like madness to me. But if we weren’t frightened to do something then the the word ‘courage’ would have no […]