On a recent marketing course that I attended, I was handed a simple questionnaire to establish what ‘drove’ me in business. Was it to be the very biggest business of my kind? Was it to earn as much money as I could? Or, as one of the options suggested: was it because I was ‘workaholic’, […]
Decision making can be difficult. I don’t know if this applies to you, but I identified a long time ago that whilst my gut was telling me one thing, my head was usually telling me the opposite. Being fairly intelligent and well educated is rarely any asset in this situation because then not only was […]
Whether it’s at work, play or home, we can all feel cross sometimes. I don’t know about you but it’s when I have felt cross about an issue repeatedly that I sometimes need to be really clear about true consequences to the others involved. It might be a domestic disagreement, or an ethical dilemma, but […]
Isn’t it nice to feel secure enough to tell another human you admire them? I have been taking my own advice and learning to recognise that the brilliances I see in others may just be an echo of some of my own skills…… Having benefited from some excellent coaching myself at the close of […]
Multiple demands are made of us, everyday, in a multitude of ways. Things to be done for work rest and play, for ourselves and for employees and for family and friends. Things to mend, proposals to be written, records to be kept and minutes to transcribe…. & on it goes. I have a confession to […]
There are days where we lose self-belief and things seem hard and we can feel ‘less than’ The people who surround us….. From this place in ourselves we can recognise the strengths in others but only the vulnerabilities in ourselves. These can be dark days. Perhaps it helps at these times to hold on to […]
Is what I find myself saying in support of the small boy as he walks up to the door to school. I notice that this is not how I communicate with myself. Listening to the monologue of my inside-voice I was re-startled at the persistent criticism I have begun sending recently in my own direction, […]
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, […]
In moments of rage and despair it is too easy to forget that there was a time of enjoyment before this ‘present’, or indeed that there shall be anything beyond it. I am living proof, as indeed are you, that there is life after hurt. I believe it is a Buddhist belief that the measure […]