Jane came to see me about having tough conversations at work. She was avoiding them with one of her team and she knew that she could no longer stick her head in the sand. She needed help. We talked about transforming tough conversations with empathy. Let me start with this: there are three things I … 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
What new relationship would you like to have with failure? I have been having a few conversations about failure recently with my daughters. One of them in particular takes failure hard. This week I went into her room to find bits of screwed-up paper all over the floor. She was sobbing whilst drawing a shape … Read more
How is playing small serving you? This is a question that came up for me in a morning journaling session recently. It got me thinking about how I play small. Turns out, it was harder to reflect on than I thought, forcing me to admit some hard truths to myself. But, let’s start at the … Read more
I downloaded the Calm app this week. In the past, I’ve used Headspace, which I love but one of the things about Calm that intrigued me was the little daily wisdom snippets. Today’s was on cognitive load. I’d never really heard of cognitive load, although when Jay Shetty started talking about it I realised it’s … Read more