What are the real priorities that our plans and where we are flexible reveal? And what does that say about how we really prioritise?
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?
If fear of failure is really a fear of being unprepared for failure, how can we better prepare ourselves for the inevitability of failure?
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 leading well is really about learning and behind learning is unconditional love?
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.
Reframing failure - how does how we see “failure” affect our ability to achieve success in the future?
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.
How do our current patterns compare to the patterns that are in service to what really matters to us? And how do we notice our patterns?
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.
How prepared are we for the success we really long for? And how much does that preparation shape how likely we are to reach the success we really long for?
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.
What is the impact of forcing something and what may be a way of doing it without forcing?
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.
What is the point in productivity? What if the answer depends on our relationship to productivity?
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.
What are the words behind our words and what is their impact on how we live and lead in the world?
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?
Have you tried turning it on and off again? What are the processes that best help us respond to challenges
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.
What if practising endings is a skill that helps us to make the space to be our best and start what really matters?
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?
What are we serving? What do we really want to be in service of?
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.
What would external circumstances force us to consider and change to be our best more, that we could do now without waiting for the world to tell us?
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?
When everything feels urgent and important what do you do?
8 questions to help navigate what to do when everything feels urgent and importnat
What am I ignoring because to acknowledge it means I will need to change something? And what does that say about how I navigate and create change?
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?
What only becomes possible when we see ourselves as something or someone?
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?
What is the smallest change that can positively shift everything for you?
This blog explores how we can shift from feeling stuck with tiny tweaks and small changes to routines and daily life that can create a sense of novelty which opens us up to more possibility.
What if missed opportunities are in fact opportunities we are still missing and still available to us, just in different forms?
So many conversations linger on the hindsight of missed opportunities. What if the opportunity isn’t missed if we do something about it now? This blog considers if missed opportunities are really a recurring pattern of missing opportunities and, if so, what is the underlying opportunity still available for us to seize?
What are we taking for granted and what is its impact on how we choose to live our lives?
This blog explores what we take for granted and in doing so what potential remains untapped as a result. What are the experiences, skills and strengths we take for granted when if we didn’t we could more fully be what we want to be? It asks what would remind us of the things we take for granted so we can appreciate and harness them more.
What is possible if we ask questions rather than set goals and follow ideas over answers?
How does a focus on answers and goals limit us? What if we focused more on questions and ideas? This blog explores what is possible when we hold specific outcomes and answers more lightly, opening ourselves to the possibility that the best answers are really just ideas that evolve and grow as we continue to explore questions that have no fixed nor finite answer.