Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

How to Face a Challenge:

Firstly, prepare. I cannot emphasise this aspect more. If you are an anxious-avoidant personality then MAKE yourself face the oncoming challenge. Be it an interview, a exam counting towards your CPD or putting a business start-up proposal to the bank, prepare!  In this digital age it is easy to discover the answers that you will […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Please Learn To Take a Compliment

 It is very British to be unable to accept a compliment with any kind of grace. It is also very British to be unable to value our own skills for ourselves. We are in a bizarre catch 22 situation of not being able to hear how good we are because we don’t allow ourselves to […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

You Have the Permission……

Often coaching work involves a ‘permission giving’ role. Usually clients know, deep down, exactly what they wish to do. Once we have excavated to discover what you want and need, then, I can enable you to enable yourself to do that thing….. So today I give you the permission to do just what you need […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

All Work and No Play…..

There is always something to be done. If it’s not a the business calling, it’s the four year old, if it’s not the finances spreading themselves over every surface, when I finally sit down on the sofa all I can see is the secondary glazing that needs beginning …. Stop! I honestly believe that it […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

People Regret What They Didn’t Do, Not What They Did!

With a sleep deprived night, & a lack of knowledge of where you’re going, & of the technicalities involved in a website build? Can you make it to that meeting? Yes you can! Feel the fear and do it anyway has a lot to say for it, but, the caveat is that you act upon it! […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Honouring the Introvert.

So what happens when an introvert (ref MBTI or Eric Berne’s The Process Model), has no ‘Me-Time’? The fall out will inevitably result in stress symptoms. The longer the enforced extroversion, the more acute will be the response. There are over 50s igns of stress (Stress index questionnaire), crossing the landscapes of emotional, psychological, physical and […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Short term pain?

Yep! The title gives it away. I spent a whole day on my email marketing campaign. I’ve never done this before because I have never needed to as recommendations are word of mouth in this game … But I thought I might benefit in some way if I did what others seem to be doing….. […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Is This Transition or Change?

What is transition and why is it different from change? Change is the thing that happens on the outside. Change is moving house, it is travelling abroad, change is securing a new job….. Change is visible, external and usually measurable. Transition however is the bit that happens on the inside that leads up to the choice […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

If You’ve Had a Tough Week…..

Remember, sometimes we need to hit a rock-bottom before we choose to change …. Is it time? To learn more of working with Rebecca click here: The Daemon Career Coach 

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Do You Believe the Sky is the Limit? 

One step (or indeed jump!), at a time, the sky really is the limit for all of us. The problem is that we ourselves cannot see it. Those around us can see our beauty and our talents and our skills and our potential and our brilliance…..  Yet we view ourselves through distorted lenses. Our self beliefs […]

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