There’s nothing quite like making a mess of something to motivate us into taking action. I may have mentioned that I ‘failed’ at something yesterday… And as my husband has rightly pointed out, I am “not used to being told ‘no’” and I’m not too comfortable with it either! But, the reality is, we will […]
What have I learned today? That in order to feel satisfaction, you need to take risks. That if your dreams stay in your head, remaining unrealised, that if you do not challenge that fear that stops you, then you will never, ever know what could have been. A professional life of few regrets – that’s […]
Sometimes it is not possible to be on-top-of-it-all. However hard you work, however hours you put in, sometimes the number of projects or clients, in and out of the door, is way too swift a turnover for the ends to be all nearly tied up before bed. This is when it is essential to do […]
In my experience It’s easy to become very good at only seeing the negative in what has happened in our day. Firstly we are told that it is arrogant to boast. We are also taught that the way to solve a problem is to focus right in on it, give it our whole attention and […]
I have clients approaching me now, aged 29, saying “I’m nearly thirty” and I still don’t know what I want to do with my career. They have panic flitting across their faces. These individuals feel they are failing. I also have clients aged between 30 and fifty who are saying “There has to be more […]
Once you have opened the door to personal and professional development, it is nigh on impossible to shut it again. If that sentence frightens you then I would, on one level, agree that it should. In reality however, any step into learning more about yourself and your world will only ever enrich your career. It […]
As a coach supervisor, a very large portion of my job is to really understand the culture or context in which my coachee, or my supervisee and their client, live and work. When a client says they feel ‘angry’ about something, it is very unlikely that their ‘angry’ is exactly the same as my ‘angry’. […]
Of course one of the major reasons we work is to earn money. Money however is never the whole story. Whether you call it work, employment, a career path or volunteering, they all bring many other benefits that contribute to our wellbeing as humans. Firstly there is a sense of ‘belonging’ and all humans have […]
I was taught that ‘I want doesn’t get’ when I was small…. But, I am discovering in adulthood, that this isn’t necessarily true. Ok, we do need a bit of a shift in manners perhaps, add a ‘please’ and who knows what might happen. The essence of both ‘wanting’ and indeed of ‘asking’ are just […]
How often do we say this to children, and yet shred ourselves as we try and get things absolutely perfect? Perhaps we can apply the parenting principle to our professional world too? Winnicott says that the gap between the ‘perfect’ mother and the real one is the child’s opportunity to grow. If we do everything […]