How do we get to optimal creativity? How do we encourage innovation? Turns out we can learn a lot from puppies!
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Can we truly let go of our past? Be free of the chokehold those, sometimes negative, memories have on us? And how would we live if each day was a fresh start? If remembering was not the same as re-living?
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What if we didn’t set ourselves up for an imagined future with so many expectations about how it was going to turn out. Big and small, here are some of the questions I’ve asked myself recently…
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It’s easy to find ourselves slipping into judgement, to find someone’s behaviour strange because it doesn’t match our own. But what exists beyond the judgment? Can we see something more loveable?
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I joined a gym last month for the first time in, oh, let’s just say quite a few years! Here’s what’s been interesting about the experience and what it means for creating (and sticking with) good habits.
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Even when we think we should be happy, we don’t always feel it. Here’s how that happened to me when I thought about how to be happy, and what I saw as a result…
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There’s an analogy in the coaching world that we’re always course-correcting that sounds very plausible. But is it true? And what if we’re can’t get ‘off-track’ because there’s no track to begin with… Curious?
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If trying to manage money is like trying to catch water with a sieve, what they are our best strategies and tactics? Or should we be looking at the money question entirely differently?
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When you’re looking for more clarity in life, those are the moments when it seems most out of reach. In this free audio series, I answer my readers’ most burning questions about how to get more clarity in life and at work. I hope you enjoy…
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I seem to have a lot of ideas and I sometimes wonder how I know which idea I want to capture in words (for writing), or in some other form, and which to let go. As I was musing, I was suddenly taken back to a Mozambique campfire and the fireflies…
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There’s a prevailing philosophy that having less stuff will lead to a simpler life, and a simpler life equates to more peace of mind. Hmm. That’s the way it looks, and the way many of us think it works. But what if there’s a huge piece we’re forgetting?
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How can we make life easy? Or at least easier? My friend was excited about the app he’d found to solve his latest problem, “I hate it ,” he said, talking about the complexity of his life, “it’s so hard!” But what if ‘easy’ doesn’t come from the app he chooses or the amount of time he spends doing tasks he loves or hates? What if an easier life comes from somewhere else entirely? Read on and let’s find out…
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Marking 100 years of the first UK votes for women, this piece explores freedom, the kind of freedom most of my clients are looking for, freedom to do the things they want and feel the way they want to feel. What’s stopping them? And what could be stopping you?
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At the beginning of the year I ran a seminar called ‘Plan Your Year’. It was hugely popular and here’s a summary of what we did so that you can join in too—no matter the time of year!
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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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Money, and what we think about money—our money stories—can drain a lot of mental energy. Energy we could be using doing less thinking and more doing. In this article we dive into what meaning you’re making and how to see beyond your stories…
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What if success wasn’t something in the future but something in the present? Sure, this doesn’t sound like a new concept but what if this question could crack open the whole idea of success for you?
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Resilience goes hand in hand with phrases like ‘bulletproof’ and protecting ourselves, like we have to build an emotional kevlar suit for life, or find ‘bulletproof leadership’ in a work context. But what if there’s an easier way to experience resilience without having to 'do' anything or suit up like a soldier?
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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 got asked this question recently, “with so much uncertainty in the world and in our lives, is it possible to live peacefully, with joy and hope, and also to do things that are useful to the world?” Read on to see my answer…
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