It is all too easy to compare your inside with other people’s outside and come off much the worse for doing so. Because you live inside yourself, you see all the vulnerabilities and fears and flaws. We are also not best equipped to see our own skills and talents somehow. When we look at other’s […]
When you are clear of your core purpose in your career, when you know why you are doing what you are doing, then business will generate itself. As someone who is ‘active’ I always assumed that I would need to ‘make marketing happen’. What I am seeing is almost the opposite. Because when an […]
In work environments and working relationships the tensions can build at times of crisis. When change is fostered upon us, or, perhaps even more subtly, when a transition begins to take place beneath the surface, old protocols cease to work. When the old way of being or working become redundant there will be a time […]
Where we work has a profound influence on how we feel about what we do. This in turn affects how we feel about ourselves and our lives. All the careers-guidance I have ever received has focused on the ‘what’ of what I wish to do. Rarely has the question ‘where would you like to do […]
.Where our focus lies is where the energy sits is what we give power to. Therefore this is what comes true…. What we think, we say, what we say, we make manifest…… I am not talking about ignoring real safeguarding for vulnerable clients here or avoiding doing a risk assessment on a project. This is not […]
It doesn’t matter how bright you are or how very astute your ideas, if you do not share them then they have no value. This is a bold statement, but, hundreds of thousands of words, in an unpublished book, are silent. The best entrepreneurial notion, left trapped inside a brain, will have no impact whatsoever […]
Did anyone mention that we as individuals get to choose our own professional identity definition? Did anyone explain that to you whilst you were choosing your ‘options’ at senior school? Nope, nor me! “Professional identity is defined as one’s professional self-concept based on attributes, beliefs, values, motives, and experiences” (Ibarra, 1999; Schein, 1978). I didn’t know […]
We all deserve to do nourishing work. This work nourishes me as much as it nourishes my clients. Together, we ‘still’ time in order to ensure it is all lining right up and that my client is really listening to themselves and what their past is telling them. Autonomy, mastery and purpose hold so much […]
I failed at something today. I don’t much like failing. And to be honest I’m pretty ungraceful when I do. I’m not yet even in that place where I can identify the good bit that came out of it….. but…… As I have failed before, I know that I will live. As I have failed […]
The Comfort Zone is the beginning of the change cycle. However the comfort zone is not as comfortable as it actually sounds. You’ve heard the phrase: “Familiarity breeds contempt”? Well this is the area we are in when we choose to make change. We are in a place we know very well. We are in […]