What got you here, wont get you there but it will almost always help, so don’t forget that
How often do we consider the value of the experiences and skills we’ve acquired in getting us to where we are now, however irrelevant they may seem, as the starting point to getting us to where we want to be? This blog explores what we need to recognise what got us here to better enable us to get us to where want to be.
What are the rules we hold ourselves to, where did they come from and how are they serving us now?
What are the rules we follow? Where did they come from? How do they serve us? This blog explores rules, how they are essential for life and for living a life that allows us to be what we want. It explores what may be the rules that allow us to focus on what really matters to us and how aware are we of the rules we actually live our life by.
What if we're more creative than we think and what do we need to access it?
What does creativity mean? What is it to be creative? What if we’re more creative than we think and what we think being creative entails holds us back from being creative? This blog explores the idea of creativity and what we need to be able to more easily access our creativity.
Are we playing to expectations or to reality in the moment? What is our relationship to plans?
How do we respond when plans don’t go to plan? This blog explores our relationship to plans and planning, asking what their value is and what might be their limits and what the impact is if we stick to a plan when it isn’t working compared to when we trust our potential to respond to the moment.
What is the impact we’re having when we’re trying to make the impact we want to have?
This blog is all about impact. Whether it feels important to us or not we’re always having an impact. So it asks: What is the impact we’re having simply in how we live our lives? How does that compare to the impact we want to have? And what is the impact we have in trying to create the impact we want?
What if learning to learn is learning to lead authentically and effectively?
What is the link between learning and leading effectively? What gets in the way of learning and so leading authentically and with positive impact, that is making the decisions that bring more of what we want into our lives. This blog explores how our relationship to failure can impact our ability to learn and so our ability to lead authentically.
Metric meeting machines or meaningfully motivated maneuverers? Is how we’re measuring what we want to achieve, setting ourselves up for success or failure?
How do we measure what we’re hoping to achieve and how we’re progressing? What is the impact of these metrics? This blog explores how we can become focusing on meeting the metrics rather than what motivated the metrics and considers how knowing what success really is can help us harness metrics to not only get closer to what we want but to better understand what success means and looks like for us.
What could feelings of inadequacy be telling us?
What if inadequacy can be a guide to a more compassionate relationship with ourself or help us recognise when we want to be more of us than we may currently be. This blog explores what feelings of inadequacy may be telling us, when those feelings are fair or a reflection of expectations we hold about us and how we may want to navigate the discomfort of feeling inadequate.
How can we stop playing small and what if playing big was simply to make the most of every moment?
What is the impact of playing small? What do we and the world miss out on by not fully embracing our strengths and the opportunities of life? This blog explores how we can play big, embrace all our strengths, by simply focusing on making the most of each moment, and in doing so overcome the fear of playing big.
How can we more easily take responsibility for our gifts, and what if doing so is a celebration of those gifts?
This blog explores what can get in the way of us accepting and taking responsibility for our gifts. It considers what small things we could do to practise those gifts and in doing so to take responsibility for them. For what if to use our gifts is to celebrate them and us and that alone will grow them?
What if it is always everything and nothing?
Often things, be there events, projects, interactions or plans, can feel like everything. Everything rests on them. What about the things that feel like nothing? And what if these things are both everything and nothing? This blog explores how considering things as both everything and nothing can help us create a distance from them that enables us to prepare and respond how we really want.
What really is good enough to us and how do we live by it?
It can be easy to see the value of good enough but harder to accept or follow it. Sometimes good enough doesn’t feel like good enough. This blog explores what the value of good enough is and how perspective and clarity on what good enough really is can help us benefit from a good enough approach.
What if we may never get there? Finding certainty in the uncertain
If we knew we may not get to where we want to, whether that be an achievement or outcome, what would we do differently? This blog explores how our approach can impact if we ever feel we have what we want to have in life and how, in considering we may never get to where we want to, how we may focus on what matters more in the present as we pursue where we want to get to.
What is the impact of when and how we see difficulty?
How often do you consider the difficulty of something? What may the benefit be of being clear on the level of difficulty to you? This blog explores the value of knowing the difficulty of something to us and in accepting that how it can help us in working towards what matters to us.
In life, who is in the driving seat, us or our expectations?
We have expectations all the time, but what happens when things don’t go according to expectation? And how often do we act based on expectation rather than what we want? This blog explores our relationship to expectations, what it may reveal about our relationship to us and asks how we may be more aware of our expectations.
If life isn’t a performance how can the idea of performance be useful in how we live and lead?
This blog explores how we can use the concepts of performances to support us in our lives. It asks what preparation, rest and reviewing among other ideas would look like in living and leading as we want and, given that life is not a performance, asks what the limitations of the idea of performance are.
If honesty is a vulnerable practise that helps us lead the life we want, what do we need to cultivate that practise?
Sometimes it honesty doesn’t feel great, it can be vulnerable and uncomfortable, asking us to confront a difficult or uncertain reality. This blog explores how we can cultivate a practise of honesty, and how it can equip us with the clearer picture we need to live the life we really want.
What are the moments in life, big and small, that remind us we’re capable beyond our wildest expectations?
How often do we limit ourselves because we don’t think we quite have what we need to accomplish a goal to have the belief disproved when we’re thrown a challenge. This blog asks how often in meeting daily challenges do we take our capabilities for granted and considers what it would be like if we knew we were almost always more capable than we possibly knew.
In being busy doing what are we busy being?
Being busy often feels like a fact of life. However, what is behind our busyness and how does what we’re busy with compare to what we want to be busy with? This blog explores the idea of being busy, when it may be in service of us and when it may be a way of avoiding being busy with what really matters to us.
What are all the daily little beginnings and endings we experience and what does being more aware of them mean for how we approach what really matters?
We often hear or think that we’re not good with endings or bad at starting things. In reality we start and end innumerable things everyday. This blog explores what the impact is of being more aware of those small daily beginnings and endings has on how we can approach beginning and responding to endings that really matter to us.