All the most successful entrepreneurs are risk-takers and change-makers. They build ideas into businesses, often against the advice of others. Entrepreneurs come up with ways to change people’s buying habits, holiday style and even mindsets. So when they are told that, to minimise the risk of infection by covid-19, they must stay at home, they […]
Next time you’re feeling taken-advantage of, ask yourself if you are helping others to value you, or making it more difficult. Have you set clear boundaries with your boss, your co-workers, your friends and your partner? Being cross, or offended, that people seem to take us for granted is often down to how little we […]
Our self-belief can be a fickle friend; showing up late on too many occasions to recount, leaving us unable to make even the most straight-forward decision without questioning and re-questioning ourselves.
How do you talk to yourself? In those conversations you have in your head, the ones you don’t share out-loud. The ones where you tell yourself what you’re capable of and how amazing you are. Or perhaps where you use the kind of language that keeps you small, filled with self-doubt and that is keeping […]
With our choice of language about the process, the goal itself and what we are working towards. It’s vital that we focus away from the past and the repeated behaviour that has become the habit we want to change,
Almost all of us will experience imposter syndrome at some time in our lives; whether it’s at school, socializing in large groups, speaking in front of our peers or doing the daily tasks of running a business partnership, it will strike at some point with a voice in our head telling us we don’t deserve […]
Imagine if you decided that, from today, you were giving that imposter in your head thirty days notice to move on, or be moved out. Imagine deciding that you were going to tell that imposter, the one that holds you back, talks you out of opportunities or change, and makes you doubt your proven abilities […]
I love Coaching and Mentoring and I have some fabulous clients who put real determination and effort into our work together. I love nothing more than when they say something to me in a session and then as they hear what they’re saying, they see the myths they have been telling themselves for the first […]
I remember the total sense of self-loathing, mixed with a sad if slightly sneery ‘I told you so’ that swirled round my head as the sleeve ripped as I pulled it over my head. I was stuck completely now, unable to pull the top off without ripping it the rest of the way down. I […]
When a client I was working with a few years ago told me he was finally ready to start writing the book he’d been talking about writing for almost 20 years, I suggested he make a Public Display of Accountability (PDA) to give him an incentive to stick with his commitment. I suggested that by […]