I had a weird experience last night. At a meeting I noticed that the tension between myself and a really amazing colleague had dissolved. Whilst there had been no malintent, I think I had been little awed by her brilliance and had perhaps been prickly or defensive in return? So on quitting the venue last […]
It’s amazing how self-limiting we can become without even noticing. Humans are creatures of habit, and we can easily, especially in the dark months of the year, get into a rut of dong the same things over and over. We may not even be happy doing some of these familiar things over and over, but, […]
I attended a business finance course today….. I learned three things. Firstly I learned that when the trainer is unfamiliar with the intricacies of the course content, it can make it difficult to to decipher some of the information. It simply does not translate. Secondly I learned that for all the ‘models’ and ‘channels’ one […]
Is a question I get asked often when people notice a blog every week day. The first rule is show up. Nothing will get written if I don’t write. Some days I do not want to write. These days are usually the days I need to write and I learn most. The second rule is […]
Today I did a new thing. Today I did what was for me, a Big New Thing. I got up at 5.30am and I went out in the dark in order to pitch my business to a room full of strangers. This was right at the outer reaches of my learning edges for a multitude […]
When one of those absolutely beautiful, clear, cold, blue, winter days arrives…. If you can, drop everything. Walk away from the PC, shove your paperwork back into the pile it came out of, put your out of office auto reply & your voicemail on, wrap up warm and leave the building……. Really! do it! Even […]
As someone who was an introverted child, my dad still screws his face up occasionally and says the words ‘but you were such a strong little thing’. I can sense that we had a perhaps a few confrontations whilst I was small. Whilst this may have been a pain for my parents, once I have […]
We live in a culture that has very little respect for age. Bombarded as we are with images of nubile nymphs, it is really easy to forget that time, self knowledge and experience bring great information to our career development. Once we get into our 30s and 40s however, we begin to really make some […]
It is within the tensions or conflicts that we have not yet resolved that the most brilliant creative responses emerge….. The difficulty lies in sitting with it. Unresolved situations are uncomfortable. We do not know what will happen. We do know there will be some change and change is challenging. We can feel unsafe and […]
I don’t know if this applies to you, but I have had it pointed out to me (often actually!), that the professional commitments I make and the responsibilities i shoulder, and the expectations I have of myself sometimes do not honour my human needs. It is not clients or business partners that cop the brunt […]