Tis the season of terrifying monsters. Have you ever left a task on your To Do list, perhaps even a mundane one? And because it’s a little unpleasant you’ve avoided it and left it there so long that o...
All work and no play makes anyone dull.
Alertness and attention-span have their limits. So what can we do to stay sharp and effective?
As a coach, my job is about helping people to achieve their vers...
‘What is your greatest weakness?’
A typical job interview ‘catch-you-out’ question. I was told the trick is to turn it on its head. My answer was that ‘I’m a bit of a perfectionist, I like to get thi...
Doing the school run the other day, the radio news reported a shooting and murder. My five-year-old son asked me, “Mummy, why would they do that?” Entirely too late to just lower the volume and preten...
Do you ever feel that your wheels aren’t turning smoothly? That your life is a little unbalanced? We can sometimes find that our day-to-day existence is biased heavily in one direction, while other ar...
Steps to Success:
There is always more than one way of looking at things.
Admittedly, sometimes it can be hard to get out of our own mindset, and either back down from or just let go of our position...
Are there some people you just find it hard to talk to? They might be perfectly nice people and, on paper, might be someone you think you’d get along with, but in person it feels awkward. You might de...
“To be prepared is half the victory,” said Spanish writer, Miguel De Cervantes of Don Quixote fame. A notion that certainly echoed in the aisles of the various hardware and grocery stores as flashligh...
Steps to Success: Back to School
It’s that wonderful time of year again, students of all ages heading back to school: the start of the academic year. I delight in this time, not only as a parent afte...
Have you ever had that tightness in your chest, cold dread in the pit of your stomach, inability to breathe, panic and paralysis setting in with the urge to escape and hide? I’m not describing a heart...
