I was telling my coach that I felt like I was constantly running on a hamster wheel. Always rushing from one thing to the next, and never seeming to have enough time to slow down and enjoy life. She told me to slow down. I thought I was (I wasn’t) and I didn’t know how … Read more
In the final of this mini-series, I wanted to talk about the idea of being too much and how it stops us from shining brightly. My own experience of shining brightly was full of self-made barriers that came from a feeling of being too much. I remember a colleague once saying to me ‘you’re always … Read more
Last week I wrote about showing up Vs showing off and there was so much more I wanted to write that I thought I might write a mini-series instead. This week I want to talk about the power and fear of being seen. In a world filled with constant distractions and virtual interactions, the longing … Read more
My inner voice whispered “You are not showing off, you are showing up” and it stopped me in my tracks. I had been giving myself a hard time for doing my ‘usual’ in an online workshop. So I usually volunteer my thoughts/ask questions/go first etc but sometimes, I worry that I am taking someone else’s … Read more
How is your story serving you? By which I mean the story that you are telling yourself, in this case, the one about your career. We all tell ourselves stories. The ones where we are rescued, the ones where we rescue someone else; the ones with the happy ending and of course, the ones without … Read more