Is a phrase frequently hurled at me by my husband and not only do I resent him for it, simultaneously I also know that he is right! Firstly as a coach, supervisor, business owner, mother, and all the other hats I wear, much of my world is organised using this device…. And because it is […]
…. once you know it’s purpose. Never did I imagine I would want to know anything about coding a website. I feel I wear quite enough different ‘hats’ during every single day. I assumed I would farm this chunk of work out to an expert and have them do it on my behalf. And once […]
In business, as in life, never, ever, underestimate kindness. Genuine concern, and it really cannot be pretend, for another’s welfare, is what makes business a pleasure. They do say ‘it’s not what you know but who….’ Whilst this is simplistic and can seem callous, what I now realise is that alone, without each other, without […]
You know you have a good mentor when….They pick right up on the bits of your business plan that you know you have been avoiding. It may make you flinch when the words are said…. But the flip-side is that you know, that ‘they’ know! This is essential in the building of the trust that […]
There is a notion that an individual needs to hit rock-bottom in order to reinvent themselves but I beg to differ. From my own experiences, and, those shared by people I have known & worked with, the evidence seems to suggest something different. Firstly hitting rock bottom seems less about reinvention of the self and more […]
Sometimes, even with the best will in the world, its difficult to avoid feeling angry….There is injustice in the world. There are behaviours towards ourselves and others that we would much rather not see. Sometimes a mix of tiredness, with misunderstanding or even mal intent can trigger a time bomb in us.And?! By which I […]
Sometimes ‘it’ just isn’t working. Be it the job, the relationship or the career path, sometimes we’ve just got to dig it up, turn it over in our hands and consider how it might sit, look, or work differently…… It ain’t easy, sometimes it ain’t pretty, but, if the work is done early enough, a […]
With our western-style, cerebral-centred education here in the UK, many of us have lost touch with our intuition. It’s not that we don’t hear it…… And sometimes our intuition really is ‘shouting’, it is that we have learned to override it. We use our heads, our logic and our thinking, in order to ignore what we are […]