In a world where things are measured only in what we can see or indeed spend, it is very difficult to make the space to benefit from pausing. I am not talking here of the rigorousness of a mindfulness technique, whilst I know this is powerful, what I am bringing to the fore is the […]
A fellow coaching colleague and I met today to share our business experiences, for we are not only practitioners, but entrepreneurs both too. What I was noticing today is that despite our scenarios being entirely different, the common ground was that both of us have been engaging in repeating the same behaviour and expecting a […]
Why I do the work I do? I realise there are people in the world who are utterly incurious about other people. I know this because I am married to such an individual. My beloved has absolutely no interest in the motives of anyone. He doesn’t ask ‘why would they do that?’, he doesn’t want […]
Every time I work with a client, We work in a different way. Even if we are using a technique I have used many a time before, even on a subject that appears similar, The process we design together will be entirely unique. Working with a client today we noticed that we were not doing […]
It is all too easy to compare your inside with other people’s outside and come off much the worse for doing so. Because you live inside yourself, you see all the vulnerabilities and fears and flaws. We are also not best equipped to see our own skills and talents somehow. When we look at other’s […]
I had been invited to write some content for a fellow practitioner’s website. Monday I sat down and wrote the body of it. Then I set it aside for three days, firstly due to other commitments but also to let it settle. In the past I have perhaps been so keen to tick it off […]
As a coach I believe that outcomes are better for clients and their careers when we start right at the beginning. Engaging with rigorous exploration, building strong professional foundations, thoroughly, makes it possible to identify the core purpose of work for each person. This process works. I have had the privilege of seeing it over […]
There is a deep connection between our Career and Core Purpose and our wellbeing. When we do work that is too removed from our core purpose than we become saddened. There is often such a conflict between three things: The thing that we long to do. The thing will earn us enough money to keep the […]
When our professional plans do not go as we wished, there is a choice to be made. Whilst we may not be in charge of the change itself, we can choose how to respond to it. A client didn’t turn up for a coaching session today. Having not only been looking forward to working with her, […]
In work environments and working relationships the tensions can build at times of crisis. When change is fostered upon us, or, perhaps even more subtly, when a transition begins to take place beneath the surface, old protocols cease to work. When the old way of being or working become redundant there will be a time […]