The power of our minds is probably beyond anything we can imagine. As Henry Ford famously said ‘whether you think you can, or think you can’t, you are right’. So it seems that our mindset is very important. Much of my work as a career coach involves enabling individuals, and indeed organisations, to choose a […]
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 […]
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’. […]
One of the points up for consideration at a meeting this week was ‘are you hanging out with the right people?’. I suspect that last time that question was asked of me I may well have been in my late teens, it may well is a been posed by my parents, and I may well […]
The difference between career ambition and career manifestation is time. As I arrived at a seminar today, late, entering by falling down a step that I was rushing down became I was late, it struck me that in that past, rather than be late, I might never have shown up at all. Due to low […]
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 […]
Whilst there is no such thing as a bad client, there are such things as personality mismatches or clients who perhaps not yet ready to dive headlong into the issue that needs addressing. Or there are clients with whom the relationship is in its early ‘forming’ stage and the boundaries and challenge zones are just […]
Today I did a new thing. Today I did what was for me, a Big New Thing. I got up at 5.30am and I went out in the dark in order to pitch my business to a room full of strangers. This was right at the outer reaches of my learning edges for a multitude […]
As someone who was an introverted child, my dad still screws his face up occasionally and says the words ‘but you were such a strong little thing’. I can sense that we had a perhaps a few confrontations whilst I was small. Whilst this may have been a pain for my parents, once I have […]
We live in a culture that has very little respect for age. Bombarded as we are with images of nubile nymphs, it is really easy to forget that time, self knowledge and experience bring great information to our career development. Once we get into our 30s and 40s however, we begin to really make some […]