Working with clients to enable them to achieve their career goals, I am reminded just how impatient we humans can be…. Encouraged by a buy-it-now-fix-it-quick society, (and I include myself in this whole heartedly!), we can lose heart very easily. Once we have chosen a purpose or mission, we quit when we don’t land on […]
In blazing offices and centrally heated homes it is easy to forget we need the essential vitamins provided by real sunlight and fresh air. In our synthesised environments we easily lose touch with the rhythms and cycles of the year. Whilst in our bodies we may know we needs a good dose of vitamin D, […]
Trusting that in the spaces, whilst it feels dark and winter-esque and full or dormancy, tiny tendrils of new ideas and plots and desires are reaching tentatively outwards. Later they will extend out into the world. In the meantime’s, let them secretly grow and whisper your encouragement. Wait for them to ‘become’. To learn more […]
I had a plant I was very fond of. I’d had it for eons. I went abroad and in my absence, it withered & dried. I felt that all the effort I’d put into growing that foliage had been wasted. Grief for an old friend was attached to this plant so it was a double […]
it wasn’t until I was in my early 30’s the I began to recognise that to be envious has a purpose. As a child I had held the message that ‘envy was a sin’ and I am not even from a religious background. This message permeates all layers of our society & culture. It thus […]
Be it procrastination or the sheer overwhelming number of tasks in a day, sometimes it is difficult to know where to begin. A blank canvas, a relocation, a blog to write on the run, it’s usually fear that prevents humans from getting it done. We can worry and plan and stress and resist for as […]
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 […]
I am intrigued observing my reaction to a cancelled meeting. Not only did it have business potential, but I also wished to see the colleague concerned as we have much to catch up on. There’s a series of emotions that surface in response to this kind of event. What I am enjoying is that the process […]
I published an article recently in the hope of stimulating some professional debate. When they say ‘be careful what you ask for? You might just receive’ they mean it! I was the recipient of what felt at the time like quite a cutting response from an esteemed colleague. I took a deep breath, took no […]