This blog explores the coaching process of contracting and asks what the value is of creating a contract with ourselves. It outlines a process of explicitly defining and revisiting what success is for us, how we may achieve it and, regardless of the outcomes, what do we need to commit to in order to be at peace.

This blog explores how we balance considering the conditions with playing our game. That is how do we follow a direction and adapt to the conditions around us so they can help us or not get in the way? It asks what we need to be able to continue to keep the constantly changing conditions in mind. 

This blog explores how clarifying what the worst case can be, really knowing what it is, its likelihood and what we want to do when faced with it can help us step into the unknown, go for daunting opportunities and make difficult decisions.

What if what we want is really a bi-product of being clear on what we want to commit to and making that commitment real? This blog explores how we can uncover what we really want to commit to and in doing so create more of what we want in our lives. 

This blog explores how our plans and where we are flexible reflects what we may be prioritising. It also asks what may be behind us not prioritising what really matters? What are we avoiding and what would help us face that avoidance? 

This blog explores how we can practice failing and responding to failure so we can not only act despite the fear of failure but see failure as a necessary part of learning, growing and achieving

What if to lead well is founded on learning and to really learn requires unconditional love. This blog, uses the idea of unconditional positive regard as a starting point for how we can practice and develop the unconditional love that underpins us leading at our best and for what matters most to us.

What does “failure” mean to us and how does that serve us in working towards what really matters to us? This blog, inspired by the story of a coffee entrepreneur, explores how we see failure and how we can reframe failure to support us to achieve and do what matters most to us. 

This blog explores the patterns we follow in our lives and what their impact is on us. It considers how we can spot these patterns and develop the skill of pattern spotting to ensure we create and follow the patterns most in service of what really matters to us. 

What if our readiness for success can make us succeeding in what really matters more likely? This blog explores how we can get in our own way of finding the success we long for. It asks what our relationship to success is and what we can do to create a relationship with us and success that serves us in finding that success. 

This blog explores the impact of forcing and what we need to do what matters without forcing it to happen. It explores why forcing may help us do things we are avoiding but in the long run may be less sustainable than other approaches. 

This blog explores productivity. What are we being productive for? It asks what is your relationship to productivity and what do you need to be present to your productivity, because from presence we can choose how we want to relate to something. 

This blog explores the words behind what we say, the behind-words. It asks what the impact is on us and others, what does it make possible and less possible. If we could more consciously create the world we most want to be part of, what would the behind-words be that all of our words carry? 

This blog is inspired by all the times I wish I had tried turning it off and on again rather than spending hours frantically stuck in trying to find a fix for something. It explores what an equivalent process for us could look like, when it could be most useful and how it can help us return to a challenge, which may no longer even feel like a challenge, with fresh eyes. 

This blog explores endings as a skill and how it can prepare us for endings we cannot control. It asks what we need to practise endings, where we can practise them and what can we start when we can more skillfully create and navigate endings? 

This blog asks what we are serving in how we do what we do and how that compares to what we really want to serve. The blog asks what conditions we need to serve what really matters to us and how doing the same thing could be in service of totally different things. 

This blog considers the times life makes us reconsider how we are doing things and how that can often lead to us being our best more. As a result, this blog asks what could we do now that helps us be our best more, instead of waiting for the world to tell us to consider this area more? 

8 questions to help navigate what to do when everything feels urgent and importnat

This blog asks what is behind the thing we know which we are resisting doing anything about? Like an old outfit we have outgrown, what do we need to gently put it aside to welcome an outfit that better fits us now?

Who do we need to see ourselves as to become the person we want to be? This blog asks what if how we see ourselves is the first step to achieving what we want and becoming who we want to be? If so, who do we need to see ourselves as and how can we do that?