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.
What if leading is really about giving us the things to be more of us?
What if empowering leadership starts with empowering ourselves? This blog asks what do we need to empower ourselves in life, to take leadership in life and to be fully us, and in doing so how can we empower others to take leadership in their life.
Being and becoming - how are we being what we want to become and becoming what we want to be?
We are always becoming something and we are always being something. This blog explores how conscious are we of what we want to become and what we are being and asks how we can both be and become what we want now and in the future.
What if ‘I wish I was like…’ was a reminder that we are all amazing, resourceful human beings?
What if when we wished we were more like x or y we used that comparison as a reminder that people are remarkable and resourceful and that we too are? This blog looks at reframing comparison and the importance of a positive perspective in a more complete picture to make decisions with.
What if we focused on just showing up?
Showing up is the first step to the things we want in life. Showing up is easier said than done. This blog explores what gets in the way of showing up and asks what the world would be like if we all just showed up more.
In each moment, what are the 3 words that will navigate us?
If we had three words that were both our destination and our way what would they be? Inspired by the idea of what3words, this blog offers a way of finding 3 words to help us navigate and locate ourselves in our lives, to bring more of what we want into everyday.
When we want more of something in our lives, sometimes the simplest way is all we need to get going?
Sometimes what we think we need gets in the way of us doing what we want. This blog explores how we can have more of what we want in life by focusing on starting with the simplest version of what we want.