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What hat are we wearing and how do we get it to suit us? 

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.

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What are the things we can only know the value of when we share them?

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?

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What will the years tell us that the days will never know?

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?

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What if at the heart of leading is recognising we are all always just trying to figure it out?

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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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