Managing managers: what’s the one key difference between being a great manager of people who manage tasks and a great leader of people who manage other people? How can you make a smooth transition and where should you put your energy and time when you want to develop your own leadership skills? Follow this advice and you can throw out the manuals and leadership courses…
Read MoreAs we head towards a deadline that no-one seems prepared for, I’ve become curious about the reactions of my friends and family. What if the world isn’t as bleak as it sometimes look? And what if we have more agency than we think?
Read MoreEven 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…
Read MoreIt’s amazing how the things that occur to us to do are the things that need to be done, and those that don’t, well don’t need to be done! Don’t believe me…
Read MoreThere’s a gulf of difference between things that appear ‘hard’ to me, and things that are ‘easy’, mindless almost, that get done without me noticing. What makes it so and how can we make it all ‘easy’?
Read MoreMost of us get that intentionality = good and inflexibility = bad. Or at least that’s the way it looks. But what if that wasn’t the way it worked when it comes to achieving the big things in life?
Read MoreThere’s a brilliant scene in the latest Johnny English movie that reflected a reality deeper than the one portrayed in the film. Are we living in a real world, or a virtual reality world?? And how to know the difference?
Read MoreMostly we go about our lives and everything’s fine. And then, sometimes, we have days, or longer, when we feel like we’ve lost the motivation to do the things we normally enjoy. Here’s such a day… or three!
Read MoreI used to hate that phrase ‘we have all the answers we need’ because if I had the answers, why, then, was I asking! The phrase, though, means something different to me now. Something infinitely more beautiful.
Read MoreI 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…
Read MoreI was at my son’s university halls of residence last week and I noticed this… which gave me an idea to save 5-10 unproductive hours in a week. Or maybe even in a day!
Read MoreWhat 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?
Read MoreAt 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.
Read MoreWhat do you do when you feel unappreciated or taken for granted or ignored? Here is a simple solution that will help you step aside from feeling attached, and also stops you simply walking away. And, perhaps, helps you get back to the love and respect we all crave.
Read MoreJudgement, we’ve all experienced it, and how can we not? We look, and we compare, it’s natural. But then we judge ourselves for judging (seriously!) Read on if you want to see something new about that… it might just change your life.
Read MoreWhat does it take to live life happy? It takes seeing where problems are coming from and going upstream—dissolving them before they turn into something toxic. Let’s see how…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreEver had that feeling, or seen it in someone else, when it feels like they’re a car, revving too hard but not going anywhere? We can all do that in life, which is exhausting (and unproductive!). Here’s how to…
Read MoreVera came to me with a big problem about her colleague and a project they were both working on. Here’s how it looked to her, and here’s where I found a solution in a different place…
Read MoreThere 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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