Goals, whether individual goals or team goals, should challenge you not so you do more things but that you become a better person in the process. Goals also need to be clear rather than generic and you should be able to articulate the meaning behind the goal. Why do you want to achieve it? How […]

I think we often make excuses or don’t take action because of assumptions we’re carrying which haven’t been tested. Can you test your assumptions? Is there any specific things you want to change and your assumptions have become beliefs and they’re holding you back? Have you ever challenged them? Questioned them? It normally looks like […]

I love solving problems. Sometimes I even have answers and solutions that can solve problems for clients, friends and family and it feels great knowing stuff and being able to share it. Often though we can misfire and solve a similar but potentially different problem. Or we can solve the problem with our solution that […]

I said this recently to a colleague and thought a useful reframe to share after blue Monday this week. Typically new year starts with renewed attention on who we are, what we’re not doing well and where we could improve. Blue Monday is typically a day in January when people have tried new actions, failed […]

Improving decision making is an area I’ve been paying attention to over the last few months. I heard on a podcast recently with Shane Parrish (Farnam Street) a quick summary to help you in your decision making: What are the variables? How do the variables interact? How am I fooling myself in this situation? There […]

On a call recently with one of my friends, we were discussing how people can experience the same thing, yet react to it totally differently. We can only control how we respond to events, I don’t think we have much power to control everything that happens to us. We can’t stop the rain, but we […]