What do you know of your limits – emotional, physical, mental and spiritual? What is the necessary amount of space you need to function at your best and not collapse into a gibbering stressed heap or explode into a crazy raging person? How are you protecting that space with good boundaries? We learn much from…
To encourage takes courage
These past week have brought several unexpected encouragements from often unexpected quarters or at unexpected times. None of them were sought, they just popped out at me in passing, as if to say: Hey, you’re doing OK and I love who you are becoming.” Equally, I have had the opportunity to encourage or have affirming…
Inspire the dream
What was your dream when you were little? Maybe to be an astronaut, or a professional footballer or a film star. Perhaps something more pragmatic – my cousin always said when he was young that he wanted to be a lollipop man because you didn’t start work till you were 65. So funny. It is…
What could life coaching do for you?
If you knew you couldn’t fail, what would you do? What is important to you about that? Imagine that you had just 20 seconds of insane courage (more on that here), and decided to take action – before fear, or negativity, or self-doubt kicked in – what would you do? These are questions that are…
On being kind – kindness matters
Last week I was musing on the importance of taking time each day to pause and reflect. This is useful time – time to be still, to reflect on how we are and therefore what we might need. To acknowledge what we are thankful for, to notice where we have been present that day to…
Why honesty is the best policy
I heard a fantastic sketch by Bill Bailey recently. Made MB and me properly laugh out loud, but also made me think wryly about the nature of us Brits when it comes to speaking of our feelings. Bill Bailey’s sketch was about us Brits answering the question: How are you? With Not too bad…” …regardless…
Trying out our way to happiness
What new things have you been trying out recently? As we meander our way through 10 keys for happier living, as outlined by the Action for Happiness folk, we come this week to Trying Out. It seems fitting indeed that this idea of trying out new things – be they skills, ventures, hobbies, opportunities, places…
Who matters to you most?
Who matters to you most? And how has that changed over the past year? Perhaps a better question is – how has the way you relate to those that matter to you most changed? In this past week we have been surrounded by statistics of death and loss due to Covid-19. Each of these statistics…
Courage to choose hope
Hope. What a word to be using just now. After long months of incremental losses, disappointment and joy-sucking restrictions, there is a general feeling of weariness and heaviness around. This week we can have courage to choose hope because a new word is filtering into our news and consciousness – not pandemic, nor lockdown,…
Courage to HALT before a bad decision
How impetuous a person are you? How often do you find yourself making an impulsive decision that you later go on to regret? What if before you acted, you were able to HALT? An enticing offer presents itself that you know objectively that you would like to refuse. It might be an extra cake rather…