When the soul sits in the centre
I've been wanting to play with Maslow's hierarchy of needs for ages, today I had the opportunity to begin a work in progress...
Taking stock to stop the burnout
Five key strategies to put in place when you’re feeling your energies stretched or the workload stressful. Strategies that will support you to elevate your super powers and become the awesome version of you, boost your personal leadership and operate from your ‘zone of brilliance’.
How to be authentically you
Often in coaching sessions, the hurdles to progress, the issues, the situations - all are part of a wider underlying need and desire - and right - to show up as our true self. To be authentic. But expectations in the workplace and in life influence how we show up, plus a social pressure to be anything but ourselves is everywhere we look. So how can this be achieved, what does it mean and what does it feel like?
The measurable and immeasurable impact of coaching
The thing that strikes me about coaching is it’s impact - it’s astonishing power to create transformation in people and situations.
Here are a few journeys that demonstrate how coaching conversations have measurable and immeasurable lasting impact - and how indeed the journey can be transformational.
Maintaining the inner calm…
When your schedule is back to back - and that’s not just ‘meetings’ but also the life admin in between - it’s hard to find time to yourself. But even though the ‘luxury’ of a day off seems so far away there are things that you can tweak in your day to maintain that inner calm.
Wellbeing - where is the compassion?
We generally have an uncomfortable relationship with self compassion - and with ourselves. We are socially formed not to take care of ourselves. But how can we improve our wellbeing without it? We want to grow, we strive to develop our habits and our behaviours, we wish to flourish at work - yet a true journey must take the inner work too - the introspection and acknowledging the less desirable parts of our beings as a whole picture - a whole self.
On Wellness and Well-doing…
How we’re seeing a rise in the commodification of wellbeing and how we can find joy and magic in the every day.
How resetting can help to stay true to our values, live with authenticity and accelerate professional growth and performance
How do we reset, stay true to our values and live and work with authenticity? Today's blog explores how cultivating a healthy personal leadership practice and working with a coach can be a fast track way to access unconscious thinking habits and behavioural patterns to accelerate professional growth and performance.
How to build resilience, deal with challenges and manage emotional capacity
I’ve had a number of challenges over the last few days that have left my emotional capacity in pieces. It’s not necessary to name them - some personal, some technical, some emotional.
When our capacity is challenged - how do we build resilience, deal with and prepare for this? What happens when we are not showing up as our brilliant selves and how can we get back there swiftly?
Why celebrating wins is crucial to success and why it's so hard to do
Celebrating our wins is a practice that is scientifically proven to accelerate success - so how do you do it and why don't we do it more?
Inspirations: easy self care for the festive season
Inspirations: easy self care for the festive season!
Here are 8 areas of self care with lots of ideas on how you can nurture your wellbeing during the festive season.
Christmas manifesto
I’ve been working with the idea of manifesto for many years, probably since the early days of art college in the 90s and use the idea with clients too. I also use it in my personal life and one area it has worked with great success is the Christmas season and holidays in general.
Dollops of gratitude
We know that a practice of gratitude has a positive effect on our wellbeing - there’s a tonne of scientific studies to evidence the effect. And having used myself as a Guinea pig to test the impact of gratitude a few years ago I was surprised at how my perspective changed and as a person I felt lighter and happier.
Living in existential angst. War vs comedy.
How do we exist in the day to day, grappling over the Small Things of life when there is global atrocity, war, climate crisis happening?
What does it feel like to perform at your best?
Performance for employees is measured by the bottom line, the company’s output. If a company is performing well profits are good.
But for employees performance can come in a variety of outfits and baggage. What does performance look like to you?
How to realign after giving all your capacity to work
I often see clients who are paying the consequences of giving work projects too much capacity. I am also prone to this so I know what it feels like first hand.
Here’s some ideas on how to reset and come back into alignment with who you are and where you want to be.
Flourishing under pressure at work and at home
How we lead affects both our professional and home life. How do we manage the considerable pressures of work during busy times, while still managing ‘life’ alongside it? How do we remain sane and keep on top of our self leadership? How do we prioritise work demands? And how do we flourish? 3 lessons and tools to keep you on track.