As a leader, your people look to you for certainty even when you aren’t certain. The antidote isn’t always to be more certain – that’s a sure path to doing the wrong thing quicker. Instead it’s flexibility and being able to change your mind. Learning quickly, unlearning quicker. Noticing what’s working and doing more of […]

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Walking in nature with a client recently I noticed we had sped up our walking pace. It symbolises a lot of what’s going on around us. Everyone is speeding up. Rushing from one meeting to the other without going to the toilet in-between. No time to eat. No time to be human. We ignore our […]

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Let’s talk about loneliness. It’s too important to ignore. The statistics, and the feeling when you experience it, are worthy of our attention. “According to a survey conducted by the Mental Health Foundation, almost half of all people in the UK (45%) said they have felt lonely since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, while […]

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Boundaries and why it’s helpful to set them – a topic that comes up a lot in my coaching. Leading & managing others, interacting with people & your work can be demanding. Without boundaries around your time, energy & attention it will start to disrupt your work-life balance. Without boundaries, you might commit to helping […]

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Are you selling yourself on your limitations or your potential? I spend a lot of my time working with my 1:1 clients and supporting them in their leadership and mindset. I also give a lot of my time pro bono to connect with and support other coaches, psychologists, personal trainers and business owners to achieve […]

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One of the leaders I’m working with took a year before reaching out for help. The discomfort had to become painful enough to do something. As a leader, it’s difficult. It’s even more difficult to ask for help and support. The more senior you get, the more alone you become. You can’t ask people for […]

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If I needed to get control of my mindset ahead of an important presentation or high-pressure situation like an interview, there’s a counter-intuitive way to improve it and some tips you can use right away to get the benefit. To control your mindset, you must learn how to control your physiology. This is why my […]

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Approximately 5000 weeks. My friend Mary is 96 today. Turning 96, she’ll have lived for 5,009 weeks. We’re already in week 11 of 2023, there are 41 weeks left. We’re getting closer to dying everyday. This hit me hard the other day when I remembered it. We get caught up in stuff that is just […]

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Every time you repeat a story or belief about what’s possible for you, you are reinforcing containers to your potential. This image is how I tried to explain it to a coaching client recently. We fall in love with the safety, control and certainty that the cages or containers around us give us. For example, […]

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What’s the fly got to do with coaching? I use an image of a fly in presentations, last year I used it in front of roughly 250 personal trainers and gym owners in the audience with some amazing speakers from around the UK and Ireland on stage. I was MCing the 2 day conference and […]

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