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 […]
What have I learned today? That in order to feel satisfaction, you need to take risks. That if your dreams stay in your head, remaining unrealised, that if you do not challenge that fear that stops you, then you will never, ever know what could have been. A professional life of few regrets – that’s […]
Sometimes it is not possible to be on-top-of-it-all. However hard you work, however hours you put in, sometimes the number of projects or clients, in and out of the door, is way too swift a turnover for the ends to be all nearly tied up before bed. This is when it is essential to do […]
In my experience It’s easy to become very good at only seeing the negative in what has happened in our day. Firstly we are told that it is arrogant to boast. We are also taught that the way to solve a problem is to focus right in on it, give it our whole attention and […]
I have clients approaching me now, aged 29, saying “I’m nearly thirty” and I still don’t know what I want to do with my career. They have panic flitting across their faces. These individuals feel they are failing. I also have clients aged between 30 and fifty who are saying “There has to be more […]
When things go wrong we have a choice. We can choose to cry or we can choose to laugh. Of course this depends on the severity of the mishap. Nothing life threatening is very funny. But aside from that, most things can be put right or ruptures repaired. I absolutely adore it when I am […]
Once you have opened the door to personal and professional development, it is nigh on impossible to shut it again. If that sentence frightens you then I would, on one level, agree that it should. In reality however, any step into learning more about yourself and your world will only ever enrich your career. It […]
It doesn’t matter if it’s asking for help from my beloved to take the small boy to school because I have flu. Or if it’s asking for assistance in the editing of some of my research. Why would we not draw on the strengths of those who are more skilled than we are? I have […]
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 […]
As a coach supervisor, a very large portion of my job is to really understand the culture or context in which my coachee, or my supervisee and their client, live and work. When a client says they feel ‘angry’ about something, it is very unlikely that their ‘angry’ is exactly the same as my ‘angry’. […]