Good enough
Have you stopped to ask yourself recently when you will have reached the point where you will be satisfied with what you have achieved? I ask this because our society appears to be stuck in a state of relentless striving. We are encouraged to be dissatisfied with what we have, regardless of what that might […]
Taking control in a crisis
There is a lot of fear mongering going on at the moment. Crisis Clickbait. From Trump, to bushfires, to Iran, and now the coronavirus… the media is taking us down a slippery slope of fear all preying on our natural desire to protect ourselves. Because that’s the crux of it. As humans we are programmed […]
Why coaching works
I have been coaching teams and individuals for a long time now, and have had the opportunity to work with a range of fantastic clients. Over this time I’ve witnessed people experience big shifts in the way they are approaching their life and work. Many realised that they had their priorities wrong. Others shifted their […]
Avoid pointless meetings
How much time do you spend in meetings? Hours? Days? Weeks? Over a year the amount of time the average executive spends tucked away in meeting rooms is an astronomical one thousand one hundred and fifty (or about 23 hours a week). The trouble with meetings however, is that while they can give us the […]
Creating Atomic Habits
I read Atomic Habits by James Clear about 6 months ago and it’s a book that’s stuck with me. I often find myself referring to his ideas in coaching sessions, and checking back in on them myself. Clear’s argument is simple. Rather than going after big goals, we should instead be focused on making small, […]
Are emotions just data?
What is the point of having feelings? Obviously there has to be some reason behind emotions like joy and anger otherwise we would have evolved away from them over the last fifty millennia. We would be blank slates interacting numbly with the world around us. Unfazed, uninterested and unemotional. Instead we are full up with […]
Eisenhower and productivity
So what does Eisenhower have to do with being productive? Well apparently in addressing a the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches, former U.S. in 1954 the President stated “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.” (He was […]
How are you limiting yourself?
What is holding you back right now? Money? Opportunities? Education? Health? Family? Capability? There are many things that we can point to when we try to make sense of why we haven’t achieved what we want to. Some of us look outwards, pointing to people and situations. Others blame their own inadequacies – labelling themselves […]
Getting things into perspective
A question that comes up regularly in my executive coaching sessions is how to manage difficult or stressful situations. The reality is that while we all come up against challenges the impact they have on us generally has less to do with the situation than it does with how we deal with it. Consider those […]
Why am I so anxious?
Our ability to think is a defining part of being human, and is at the core of progress. Yet it is also at the root of our angst, stress and unhappiness.
