In the first of this five-step series on ‘leadership in the new normal’, we look at what it means to feel grounded and what this thing called ‘normal’ really is anyway.
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What can we learn from looking at the outward way of being of people we admire in the world? People who are ‘making an impact’ we might say, and people we are looking at as role-models and champions. Perhaps the learning is more simple than it looks?
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Are we seeking feedback to nourish our soul or to stroke our ego? OK that might be a leading question, but what feedback really matters and how do we access the deeper space?
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What does elephant-spotting and busy-ness have in common? When we’re all about action, action, action, what is it we’re really looking for and how do we know when we’ve found it?
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At the heart of being successful is a paradox. It’s a paradox that the most successful people I know have solved, although they may not be aware of it. And it’s the paradox that keeps those of us who are feeling frustrated about our success fro achieving everything we want.
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A popular self-help rallying cry “if you believe it you can achieve it!”. But where has that led us other than to hard work and more hard work? Let’s take a look whether it’s true and what else we could believe in instead…
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When we give to others, when we share our riches with those less well-off, what are we really giving? Is it about the money? Yes, to a degree, but perhaps there’s also another way to look at this so that we can all make a larger difference in everyday ways…
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What is fear? Fear of success, fear of failure? and how can we dissipate it in a way that allows us to move freely into our future?
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So much of our lives are transactional—we turn up at work for a wage, we pay for retail goods and services. We know what we’re getting. But what if we could turn these everyday interactions into something a little bit more magical? What could happen then?
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There are two parts to finding more focus—the feeling of being focused, and the completion of stuff. We often think the first leads to the second, or the second leads to the first! But what if they’re actually de-coupled from each other?
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Three days discussing solving world poverty and the UN Sustainable Development Goals with the great and good. Here’s what I took away…
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‘How to maximise the contribution of philanthropy to achieving global sustainable development’ Wow, big title, important discussions. Here’s how we can bring it into everyday actions…
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We set ourselves impossible targets and then we beat ourselves up for not meeting them. Huh. No wonder we’re exhausted! But how to apply a new way of thinking in your life…
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So often we do X because we think we’re more likely to get what we want (let’s call that Y). But why do we do that? And what happens when we strip away some of those stories?
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Ellen told me all the reasons she didn’t want to live in London. And all of them sounded plausible! But what if we can lift our restrictions so that it doesn’t matter where we live, but we don’t have to be limited by things that don’t exist.
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It’s so common for clients and friends to come to us with questions that look like they have a real answer, and it’s easy for us to give it. But what if we’re doing more of a disservice than we know? What else can we do when someone is asking for advice (works for us too!)
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I saw Simon Sinek speak about the millenials’ question—those lazy good-for-nothing young people. His argument was compelling. Until it wasn’t…
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Trying to decide what’s in the future and running scenarios and then managing our actions (and those of others) to try to achieve them is exhausting! When we see THIS, we can let go of all of that and sink into the beautiful fabric of life itself…
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In conversation with a client who was feeling demotivated about her to-do list, we broke down the distinction between inspiration and motivation and how to keep ourselves in the flow.
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I walked past this sign on my way to a meeting and it got me thinking… why is self-worth considered better than self-doubt, and what really is the difference between them?
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