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.
How are we being the standard we want in our lives?
We here a lot about standards and upholding them, often in the context of calling out what isn’t in keeping with that standard. But how clear are we on what the standard we want looks like? This blog offers some prompts to think about what is the standard we want to maintain in our lives, what that looks like and how in creating that we may be able to create more of what we want in the world.
How can we do our best work if we don’t know what we need to do it?
While we often aim to do or be our best, how often do we step back to understand what doing our best work looks like and what we need to do that? This blog explores the benefits of understanding what we need to do our best work and offers questions to create that understanding so we can enable us to do more of our best work
I’ll get to that but I’m procrastinating first. What if procrastination is part of the process?
Procrastination is often seen as a negative, something that shows we’re not good at doing important things or things we want. That perspective in itself can only make procrastination worse. This blog explores what it would be like to reframe procrastination as part of the process of starting and asks what impact our relationship to procrastinating has on us doing what we really want to do.
Navigating the discomfort of positive change: what are the new patterns and how can we welcome them in?
Even positive change we want to experience can be met with resistance and discomfort. This blog explores how we can welcome in the positive changes we want in our lives through habits and understanding the old patterns we a slowly replacing.
What if we really knew our strengths and what would it be to apply that to our whole life?
We often hear ‘play to your strengths’, but how well do we know our strengths? If we do know our strengths, what would it be like to apply them to our whole lives rather than specific contexts? This blog offers questions to better know our strengths and considers the benefit of knowing and owning these strengths.
What helps us maintain the clarity we need to live the life we want?
However helpful clarity can often feel elusive. What if clarity is always there and it is a case of returning to that clarity? This blog explores how we can find clarity and asks what are the practices we can implement to help us return to that clarity?
What is our relationship to us? Reframing reframing navigate setbacks.
Reframing is a valuable tool to navigate setbacks, but it is easier said than done. This blog explores how our relationship to us shapes how we may respond and reframe setbacks and asks what can we do to cultivate the relationship with ourselves we need to live the life we want.