Pick up a newspaper or listen to the radio and you will hear people bemoaning or having an issue with something from immigrants taking British jobs, kids getting crappy eduction, CEOs being overpaid, the environment getting ruined faster than we can say – pass me another cold Diet Coke and so on and so on.…
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This is what I wondered last night arriving home from a lovely weekend at the sea, excited about all the ideas that fresh sea air and breeze and a company of wonderful friends generated in my head for things I’d like to do and create. Fresh in my mind were a number of recent conversations…
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Here’s my recipe for completing work. These steps helped me stay focused on the task and get the writing done. I share this with you as I think it can be used for completion of many tasks especially the final bits that seem to take ages and when many of us can lose steam.
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Effective relationships are key to personal productivity. Last week I have started a course with Arbinger Institute entitled Anatomy of Peace. I have read and studied Arbinger materials for a couple of years now and really enjoy using the concepts in leadership programmes and 1:1 coaching work so it was with huge excitement that I…
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There are times when no matter what one says, the words just can’t describe the intended message. Rather than write, I’d like to share with you this beautiful composition of song and music by Angelo Badalamenti used in the movie The city of the lost children and La fille sur le pont. To me, it…
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I have borrowed the title from David Hockney’s new exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, fantastic stuff! But the phrase has a lot to do with coaching as well and helping our clients find new ways of looking to generate options. It’s probably one of the best features of a great coach: inspiring new…
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I have just touched base with 29 people from the accelerated talent program I run. Many of them returned fired up and some, after working hard for seven months, felt they were in serious need of steam injection…If you’re either in overdrive or lacking the energy and/or motivation to start the year productively, you might…
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We live in a world telling us to find bliss and fulfilment. London Time Out this week ran a cover in black and white entitled ‘How to change your life’. Now common! If you really needed to change your life, I seriously hope you’d be on some therapist’s sofa questioning all your life’s choices up…
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Every year for the last fifteen, I sit down and write New Year resolutions in a form of goals. I keep them pretty specific but certainly not rigid. For example, to write a book was on my list for the last five years at least. What this meant was that in each year I took…
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Apparently the above is true! Is it the weather? Is it post Christmas holiday longings to free time instead of realities of life and obligations? Is it the overwhelming feeling of the goals we set ourselves? Maybe it’s the faces of other people looking more rested than us? Or us hearing about great presents others…
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