How can I be more authentic? A common request across all parts of life but brought up this week by one of my leadership clients. I gave him some really simple advice that can be summed up in four words….
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When we’re debating what it is that makes an economy sustainable, we forget that the value is less in what we create, and what system we have for living in society, and more in the creative capacity that underpins everything we do. Value that, and we will be nurturing an infinitely renewable source of value, rather than the form in which that value shapes itself on any given day.
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The self and others: relationships at work. What is this ‘thing’ we are calling a relationship and, if we want it to be ‘better’, what does that mean and where should we look, both for answers to deepen our understanding, and to play out the implications of what we might find.
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Everything we do has unintended consequences—it’s the way things work, our futures are all, as yet, unfolded. So, how then, do we measure what’s important, and how do we retain the humility to see our assumptions and biases? How do we evaluate complex choices with grace and compassion?
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We’re often attached to a solution for some reason other than what it does. We seek knowledge rather than understanding, we value expertise rather than wisdom, we envy the colour or style of a car, we follow fashions (even if that means playing the rebel). This is fine, and fun, but being able to question, to create space for reflection, to see beyond the shimmer is a life and leadership skill that will take you way further.
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No matter the circumstances we are always better prepared than we think because we have the infinite creative potential of being human on our side. And that's quite something!
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We all hang on to our own timescale, whether we realise it or not; that X should happen by Y, or there will be Z consequence. But how often do we challenge where these ideas come from and what would happen if we were to loosen our grip on them?
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How to be more productive: the biggest (counter-intuitive) lesson I learned this year that applies to productivity gains. This is for anyone who wants to be fitter and faster at work, at home, in the gym…
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What do you do when what you want isn’t on the table? When you have to make a decision—maybe you’re up against time—and it looks like there is something to be ‘figured-out’? How do we solve this? And what if the weight of the decisions is a signal to step back, to pause, and to take a different approach? I know enough to know decisions don’t get ‘figured out’ by me worrying over them. Click through to read more…
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How do we find satisfaction and fulfilment at work? We put a lot of effort and energy into finding the ‘right’ job, but what if there’s something else at play here? How do we find a job or a career that will fulfil us for life?
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We ask a lot of how-to questions in life and it’s easy to create systems around what we or other people did, to see patterns where there is only randomness. But is this how change happens? Or is there an easier way to make thing happen? Read on to find out…
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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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Are you someone who sees failure as a disaster, and tries to avoid it? Or are you someone who turns it into a positive, and calls it ‘learning’? How do we best learn from failure? And how can we turn ‘failure’ into an experience that we enjoy? An experience that affirms the very nature of life itself? Click through to read more…
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When you feel yourself veering towards controlling, what can you do? Here are two simple rules to help you, and those around you, be happier, more creative and more productive at home, at work, in all areas of life. Enjoy!
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It’s easy to assume that a little worrying is a good thing—that surely it makes us more conscious of results and focuses the mind on doing better? Well… maybe not. Maybe perfectionism in its extreme form—the mental comparison to our own imagined future performance is actually causing damage to us and diminishing our results.
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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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It can be hard to say ‘no’ when we think we need to be helpful, or we’re anticipating a negative response being played back to us. In my experience, though, there are only two reasons why this is the case. Find out what they are, and also find out how to make it easy to always say what you mean.
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How can we be more committed? We hear a lot about commitment, about ‘taking the shot’, and, of course, we can see the results of this. How does one person show up again and again even when they’re tired or it doesn’t look like results are happening? What’s going on here and how does it apply to you and me?
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What if we are innocently shackling ourselves when it comes to the biggest challenges in life. We don’t realise it, we think we’re helping, but really we’re holding ourselves back. How do we make it easier to climb those metaphorical mountains and perform at our absolute peak?
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“I’m so busy!” is a cry we often hear when we, or someone else, hasn’t done the thing we thought they were going to do. It’s easy to decry time as if it’s the enemy of getting things done, yet we still do stuff, just perhaps not those things we think we should be doing. What if there’s no such thing as ‘busy’? And what if knowing this will help us do more of the things we want and less of those we don’t?
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