Hello to you, my lovely reader. As ever, with the advent of the summer months, I am taking a small pause from blogging. Today, it is hot and sunny in Glasgow, and everyone who can be outside, is. I realise that things may be very different tomorrow, but for now, my sense is that no…
Learning to take my own medicine.
How good are you at taking your own medicine? One of the curious quirks of being a life coach is how often I reflect back on client sessions and see lessons for myself that I need to pay attention to. Similarly, my blog musings generally are inspired by my current thinking or reading on some…
Do you suffer from ‘hardening of the oughteries’?
Now there is a phrase that made me stop and do a mental double-take: ‘hardening of the oughteries‘. I first heard the term when it was used by a client in relation to herself. We are familiar with what happens in our blood vessels when they fur up from a poor diet, and we end…
Are you looking for a Christian Life Coach?
Are you looking for a Christian Life Coach? Perhaps you are doing a wee trawl around the ol’ internet looking for you-are-not-quite-sure-what but you know that life is not the way you want it to be. You identify perhaps that you are not living at peace within yourself. A lack of self-worth and self-acceptance rears…
How to live in the present in this season
How do we learn to live in the present, in this season? With all the uncertainty and instability in our world? And as Christmas rapidly approaches? One of the death bed regrets I have been musing on is regretting not making more of each moment that we live in. Do you crave the quiet enjoyment…
An attitude of gratitude
Have you read or seen Pollyanna? Or heard of the Pollyanna Principle? And what has this to do with cultivating an attitude of gratitude? Gratitude is a Good Thing. We know this, and there is masses of evidence to show the psychological and physiological benefits of gratitude. For instance, gratitude reduces stress and anxiety, improves…
Become what you already are
Become what you already are. A bishop used this phrase on the radio this week, and it has stayed with me. We are more than half way through the year now, and the summer season, whatever that means to you, is here. For me, that means less time writing and shorter musings. The year is…
Don’t look back in regret
How are you living today to minimise your end-of-life regrets? What do you most want to NOT regret at the end of your life, and how is that affecting your choices today? To not look back in regret? These past few weeks have seen me musing on common death bed regrets, and the implications of…
The Importance of Being Present in a Digital Age
When was the last time you bumped into someone on the pavement because you were both walking along looking at your phones? The need to raise the importance of being present in a digital age is such a 21st century phenomenon. But it IS important because it is another oft-cited deathbed regret: I wish I…
I wish I had taken more chances.
I wish I had taken more chances. Do you every feel like that? How does it feel to imagine getting to the end of your life and looking back at lost opportunities – the ‘what if’s, the fizzled out dreams? Not a very cheery place to start this week, I know. Sorry. But this stuff…