Don't Be Your Own Biggest Obstacle: 9 Questions to Get Your Goals Back on Track
When working towards objectives, we should realistically expect to experience doubt, setbacks, unexpected wobbles, wrong turns. After all, if it were always plain sailing, then we’d all be achieving our goals quickly and easily. But we know that’s not always the case - at least until we learn some of the tools that facilitate the process for us. Here are 9 powerful questions I regularly share with my clients to get them back on track. Bonus points if you can come up with an actionable step for each one.
Stop Overthinking Past Interactions: Learn this Powerful Practice Instead
What many people don’t realize is that debriefing isn’t just for the military. It’s an essential step that can be applied to any situation where you want to perform at your best—whether it’s a job interview, a difficult conversation with a colleague, or even a tough chat with a friend or family member.
Slow Down and Rise Up: Why Getting the New Year Off to a Slow Start Is a Good Idea
Slowing down is highly underrated. Enthusiasm is great, but if you rush into all your new plans for 2025, chances are you’ll get tired very quickly, and you won’t implement them properly.
What Is a Discovery Session and How to Get the Most Out of One
Chemistry calls, also known as discovery sessions, clarity calls or exploration calls are short (usually free) consultations between a coach and a prospective client (coachee). Their main purpose is to give both parties an opportunity to assess whether they'd be a good match to work together. This is usually via information sharing, questions and answers, and sometimes even a spot of coaching on the call.
Feeling ‘Off’? 7 Questions that Will Always Help You Feel Better
I was explaining to my own coach that I'd recently had a day where I was feeling quite ‘off’ - kind of anxious, low energy, bad mood, fluttery heart, tight stomach. I was also telling him that although I had tried to think of one, I couldn't find any reason to be feeling like this. I wasn't particularly worried about anything. There was nothing negative or particular going on in my life at that time. And the next day I was feeling alright again.
Don’t Take It Personally; Do This Instead
Rejection is tough, and just like change, it is one of life’s inevitables. It happens at every stage of our growth, whether it’s rejection from the school choir or football team as children, rejection from a circle of peers as a teenager, or from a university, job, or relationship as an adult.
Everyone's Growth Journey Is Different
Are you currently experiencing a self-led transformation? Are you considering change? Or are you adapting to circumstances that are beyond your control and yet affecting you?
How are you leading yourself through it? Are you embracing it, resisting it, are you growing through it?
Everyone's growth journey is different, and rarely linear. We all go through stages, ups and downs, and sometimes around and around in vicious circles in life.
5 Lies You're Telling Yourself that Stop You from Getting Hired
There is a learning curve that goes with every new job. All teams and organisations do not behave identically. So, whether it's learning how to do things ‘their way’ or having to acquire a new skill, if you are confident you can do the job anyway and acquire the missing skills, then apply.
How to Ask Questions that Will Save You Time, Energy and Money - and Why We Don’t
Our frequently misplaced hesitation, fear, discomfort, laziness and assumptions are time, money, energy and opportunity wasters. You might not get a second chance. We all know what it feels like when the moment has passed. Speak now or forever hold your peace.
How Aligned Is Your Work with Your Values?
Knowing what our values are and how they would play out in the workplace is just as important as finding a role that suits our skills.
My Own Self-Leadership Story
The background to how I became a self-leadership coach, and my own self-leadership story.
Self-Leadership: The Difference Between Living Your Life and Leading Your Life
How many of us are settling for merely living our lives? The sad truth is, we can all do that without ever leaving the house. Life goes on regardless. However, everything changes when we make the decision to start leading our lives.
7 Steps to Starting Your Week Feeling Empowered
Imagine going to bed on a Sunday night feeling empowered, excited or at least calm about the week ahead, instead of dreading it. Rather than stumble into yet another week, cringing at the thought and falsely hoping for the best, why not take control? Set yourself up for a week of met potential and march into it, head and vibe high.
