The Tipping Point.

I am noticing as a Coach how I can become affected by the impatience of my clients. In this turn can trigger my own impatience with my own business progress. This is an unwelcome piece of parallel process and frankly a hinderance to my own professional development and that of my coachee’s if I even […]

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Career Acclimatisation

As the seasons change I have been noticing how differently people respond to the evolving weather patterns. How well, or indeed badly we adjust to the new temperatures can be indicative of our professional agility too. I got caught out for a whole week by Autumn. It having been warm in the early evening, I […]

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Career Authenticity 

There really IS enough space for all of us to be just what we want to be. The more clients I work with and professionals I learn with, the more self-evident it becomes that if you wish for success, you need to be authentic. Even If you say the right words, in the right way, […]

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Alchemy of Coaching

These words from Oriah’s “the invitation” always resonate with me: “I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it or fix it.” http://www.oriahmountaindreamer.com/ And this is the basis for all healing. It is within the moment following important words being spoken, that […]

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Choosing Career Change:

I am not one to engage happily with the consumer-society we have created. It is possible to hoard however without spending any cash at all. Are you holding onto clothes that, even if you did return to a size ten, you probably wouldn’t wear now anyhow? You may have outgrown them in your persona too. […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Agility

Few professionals would admit that sneaking off for a snooze mid afternoon constitutes ‘agility’. Call it a ‘power nap’ however and you’re in a different realm. When one is early to rise AND late to usher the last client out through the door, you have to make the most of opportunities as they present themselves. […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

The Secret to Surviving Mid Week Blues

We are cyclical beings we humans. We have biorhythms & social commitment rhythms, sleep rhythms and Luna ones too. The mid week blues, our social rhythms, can make Wednesday a challenge. Whether we entered our week fresh or frazzled from our weekend endeavours, by mid week, the excitement has worn off. The project might not […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

Responding to a ‘Let Down’

I am intrigued observing my reaction to a cancelled meeting. Not only did it have business potential, but I also wished to see the colleague concerned as we have much to catch up on. There’s a series of emotions that surface in response to this kind of event. What I am enjoying is that the process […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

2 Ways to Choose a Career

As a career coach I have seen two ways of choosing a career. One is more successful than the other. The first is to do as you’re told, it is to choose the options you were advised to do at school. To choose the degree your family felt would be good for you. It is […]

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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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