Our first Grid retreat is a success
News from our first Grid retreat where we work on helping people construct healthy and deeply fulfilling lives that encourage their best expression.
How to move forward towards your goals when you feel blocked
Do you find it hard to complete things? It may be a DIY project you started or another creative endeavor that you were super excited about. It can even be something that needs doing like your business accounts or a project with an immovable deadline. We have all been there! Something needs to be finished…
Switchboard Operator: a practical exercise to repair self-defeating thoughts
Conscious or subconscious thought patterns Mental functions can be either conscious or subconscious. The conscious mind consists of thoughts you are easily aware of. They take place when you’re awake and choose to apply purposeful attention to what is happening and what you want. The subconscious mind consists of everything else such as habits, reflexes,…
Avoiding burnout: how to spot the danger signs of overwork
Burnout Context A few weeks ago I was on a call with one of my coaching clients – a leading academic – who was clearly unwell. Yet against the pressures of work responsibilities, demands of his team and colleagues, my suggestion that he considers taking a few days to recover was met with shock and…
How to improve your future outcomes: pay close attention to how you approach regret
Regrets. We are always told to live without them. Yet when every decision in life is bound to a specific context and time while our evaluations of them often enjoy far more freedom, having no regrets seems a tall order. You may be living the life you have always dreamed of and yet you may…
How I Befriended my Inner Critic and You Can Too
What is an Inner Critic? We all have an inner critic. Critics tend to: Get in the way of our aspirations and potential success. Evaluate us from the sidelines without doing any actual work! Judge us and our feelings, behaviours, and actions. Sometimes even judge our entire self as in, “You’re just all bad, worthless,…
Integrative stress management for mind, heart, body and spirit
The mind comes in a body and every body has a mind Integrative stress management starts from the fact that the mind is located within and connected to the physical body. Just as the mind has a body to experience life with, the body has a mind or felt sense to collect and register experiences.…
Facing and dealing with anxiety
I’ve been asked my by colleague and friend Kenneth Clifford to contribute to his blog and the Portsmouth counselling practice with a series of blogs on either neuroscience or anxiety. You can see I chose something far more practical. 4-5 people in my annual leadership programme of 40 candidates faces and struggles with anxiety in…
How to get more done in less time: 3 critical tips for entrepreneurs
So you decided to work for yourself instead of someone else. Working independently or creating your own business was supposed to give you freedom, chance to do things your way, and give you the financial freedom you deserve not to mention be fun! Entrepreneurship says Natalie MacNeil, contributor for Forbes magazine is especially an attractive…
Three practices to help make 2013 successful
As we enter January many of us will undoubtedly bump up against folks setting new year resolutions and those refusing to do so on various principles. So here are three insights that I have recently shared with a group of professional executive assistants. If you implement these practices, you will no doubt notice that your…