This blog, inspired by Wade Davis’ work on Mallory’s attempts to summit Everest, explores what can be lost if we focus only on an outcome and what it means to balance ambition with a right attempt at achieving the summits we seek in life. 

What do we need to help us navigate our lives and get us to where we want? The world is full of navigation metaphors and analogies, but how clear our we on our own maps for navigating our world and our life. What is on our map, where is still to explore? This blog reflects on what we need to help us more consciously navigate our world and our lives.

What if we are always leading and it is more a question of how, when and where we want to lead? This blog explores all the assumptions we make about leading and asks what does it mean to lead in all contexts rather than seeing leading as determined by the roles we have or don’t have in life.

This blog asks what the impact of finding something to be deleted would be for us. What would we miss? What would we be grateful for? What would we be inspired to finish knowing it could be deleted? In exploring this it asks what do we want to choose to let go of, what do we want to appreciate more and what do we want to finish rather than see deleted?

This blog explores what the realities of being human are and what they mean for how we live and lead. If we are fallible and finite and also capable beyond our wildest expectations what does that mean for how we are and what we focus on?

What are the different roles we play and what does it look like to play them to our strengths? This blog, using the analogy of wearing multiple hats explores what hats we are wearing, what hats do we want to wear and what it looks like to wear those hats in a way that best suits us.

What is the gift we may not know until we share our work? Be that an idea, a thought or a project we’re working on, this blog explores how it may only be in the act of sharing it that we realise the gift it is, for us or for others. Therefore, this blog asks, if we knew that only in sharing our work may we realise the gift it is, what would we share?

When we are working to make something work what are we focusing on, the process, the outcome or both? This blog explores what the impact is of our approach to making things work and how that may effect whether they ever really work for us.

This blog explores how we see things can impact how we respond to them. In understanding how we see things it asks what are the small practices we can create that allow us to respond to things more in accordance with our values and with what matters to us?

What do we try and control at the expense of what we can actually control? This blog explores what we are resisting in controlling things we cannot and what the impact would be if we take responsibility for what we can and cannot control.

This blogs asks what can we only know in years to come? In asking this we consider what that means for how we approach our days, aware that the years may tell us we haven’t got to where want to be, and if that is the case, what do we hope the years will tells us regardless of whether we get to where we want to be?

What would be different if we recognised we are always figuring things out? How would we lead and live if we knew we are always figuring things out? This blog explores the possible impact of seeing ourselves and everyone else as always figuring out and navigating life, rather than assuming we’ll ever have a definitive answer or that they do and we don’t. And in recognising we are always figuring it out what may we feel more able to do or try?

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.