En famille is perhaps the most challenging context to bring a new self to. To reflect rather than react. Old buttons. Ingrained ways of assuming and acting. Not toxic just non-serving. Important to pause, as with a client, check internally, check contextually, check the individual in front of of me….. Not ‘mum’ or ‘step-brother’, but […]
Sounds ‘sacred’ but for the purposes of this blog lies much more in the realms of the profane. When we give, be it gifts on a birthday, or time to a colleague or assistance to a stranger, we generally receive in return. That grin of gratitude, or the sigh of relief or the moment shared […]
:In very hot shop, a carton of apple juice in my hand, running between nursery and provision of supervision, I discovered I had no wallet. Not the end of the world, but, not arriving home with that aforementioned juice would have had consequences further than the realisation of my daft ness in my inability to […]
I have been reminded in the last few days just how important people are to me…. Whilst it ounds obvious, it is easy to forget just how much we need each other as we career chaotically through our busy every day lives, and that we cannot easily do this alone. A Colleague with a cancer […]
It’s easy to notice the irritations of our lives. The small problems that seemingly will not be solved. There’s the colleague who is leaving that piece of work undone, again! there’s child who stubbornly refuses to meet expectations. There is the husband who appears to maliciously (like he has the time to plot against me!), […]
The world is a much nicer place if we can hold it gently and with gratitude. It is also SO much easier for us to do our best for our careers, our families and our Colleagues when we come from a place of appreciation. This was brought to my attention only today, when a distressed […]
It’s very easy for it all to be So Serious. &, what I am discovering about business, is that the more open and dis-armed I am, the more fun business development becomes. I am meeting wise and talented people who have learnt not to take themselves or this journey too seriously. I do not mean […]
Every emotion, every connection, every experience and every moment passes.The only thing we can be certain of is change. This however is not easy to remember when we are in the midst of turmoil. I caught myself only this morning, watching as I wound myself into a frenzy, and I had to find a way […]
Sometimes it is not that we are ‘wrong’, nor that criticism recurred is unwarranted either, but perhaps it stings a little because we are already vulnerable? Ever had a colleague feedback on your work and whilst your head knows it us valid, and whilst in your core you know it is useful, your heart hurts […]
Is a phrase frequently hurled at me by my husband and not only do I resent him for it, simultaneously I also know that he is right! Firstly as a coach, supervisor, business owner, mother, and all the other hats I wear, much of my world is organised using this device…. And because it is […]