Can You Hold Out For Long Enough?

Sometimes, if you just hold out for long enough, you might just catch your prey! I did today! To learn more of career coaching with Rebrcca Click Here

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Effective Ways to do Your TO-DO list

Prioritise? How can that be done???? Theirs this and tar and the other to do ….. It is enough to open the door to a mild panic attack….. Stop! Breathe…… List it all, divi it up into ‘Now’, later, and ‘when the rest is done’ If need be use Stephen Covey’s Time Management Grid: Stephen […]

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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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Remember to Step Out.

When things are stressful and work deadlines loom, it is really easy to be so very focused on the project and only the project. When immersed in the intricacies of the tiny details, the risk is that bigger picture ceases to exist. With our heads down, driving the project forwards, we can neglect to attend […]

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Professional Priorities

 There is nothing like an emergency to help you establish your priorities. Whether the trigger is physical, emotional, financial, is often an irrelevance. They all stimulate exactly the same chemical in our brains, adrenaline. This is the fight or flight drug. You’ll have heard of it. One of the effects it can have in our […]

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Make Hay Whilst the Sun Shines….

Whilst I make every effort to ensure that my blog and my practise are professional and protected by the appropriate codes of practise, protocols and contracts, I find there is one exception. When the sun shines, as brightly as it is now, in this glorious Indian summer we have been blessed with, everything administrative can […]

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Evidence Gathering:

What if we believed we could choose our mindset? It is possible to look at just about any situation, or any individual, in a multitude of different ways. Then we evidence-gather to ‘prove’ this to ourselves.  Sometimes it is preferable to feel ‘safe’ and ‘right’, even if we neither like the conclusion we reach, and […]

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Rebecca Hartnell, Career Coach, Bristol

The Power is in the Pause

We do not hear ourselves, or our own needs and desires, for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons is practical. Most of us are very busy, juggling work and home and family and friends and community and it seems there is little time to set aside for ourselves. On a deeper level however […]

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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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