Asking For Help is Human. When I was small I was sure that being a grownup meant that I would have all the answers. Now, from the perspective of my fifth decade, I know this to be a very erroneous expectation! I think between the ages of 16 & 26 years I pretended I knew […]
In business as in life, I find my best survival tool is my sense of humour! When I have sent the very client who is extremely particular about things being done correctly, a corrupted document, in a manner that seems almost impossible to do deliberately, after apologising, I had to laugh….. After arriving at the […]
On a recent marketing course that I attended, I was handed a simple questionnaire to establish what ‘drove’ me in business. Was it to be the very biggest business of my kind? Was it to earn as much money as I could? Or, as one of the options suggested: was it because I was ‘workaholic’, […]
Decision making can be difficult. I don’t know if this applies to you, but I identified a long time ago that whilst my gut was telling me one thing, my head was usually telling me the opposite. Being fairly intelligent and well educated is rarely any asset in this situation because then not only was […]
If your personal or professional situation has become unbearable or untenable, it seems important to risk saying your truth. There are kind ways of saying it, but it does still need be said. To remain in situations that do not agree with us, whether it challenges us ethically, or emotionally, or if something else in […]
Whether it’s at work, play or home, we can all feel cross sometimes. I don’t know about you but it’s when I have felt cross about an issue repeatedly that I sometimes need to be really clear about true consequences to the others involved. It might be a domestic disagreement, or an ethical dilemma, but […]
Isn’t it nice to feel secure enough to tell another human you admire them? I have been taking my own advice and learning to recognise that the brilliances I see in others may just be an echo of some of my own skills…… Having benefited from some excellent coaching myself at the close of […]
Multiple demands are made of us, everyday, in a multitude of ways. Things to be done for work rest and play, for ourselves and for employees and for family and friends. Things to mend, proposals to be written, records to be kept and minutes to transcribe…. & on it goes. I have a confession to […]
There are days where we lose self-belief and things seem hard and we can feel ‘less than’ The people who surround us….. From this place in ourselves we can recognise the strengths in others but only the vulnerabilities in ourselves. These can be dark days. Perhaps it helps at these times to hold on to […]
Is what I find myself saying in support of the small boy as he walks up to the door to school. I notice that this is not how I communicate with myself. Listening to the monologue of my inside-voice I was re-startled at the persistent criticism I have begun sending recently in my own direction, […]