Achieving Your Potential Coaching
Navigating life's complexities more skilfully
I love the line from this great article by Justin Wise "it is no use screaming at a seed to make it grow faster". I find it hard to remember when things are tough or when I'm learning a new skill or increasing self awareness. How much more enjoyable would my life be if I …
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There are many books on how to bring forth your best self in your cv. There are many books on how to bring forth your best self in your life. In coaching I'm interested in what can be done to help people have both - a good life at work and outside - bringing the …
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State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, http://floridamemory.com/items/show/67060 Development can be too dull and worthy. Dull and worthy doesn't get done - our lives are just too busy. New opportunities and possibilities remain unexplored. What if we took our development just as seriously - but saw it as playtime? Time to explore, try things, do tests? …
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So much is written about change and yet still so many projects could be handled better - with better results for employees and the business. These infographics from @torbenrick via Top 7 change management infographics are worth a quick review if you are planning or even mid-change project. Alternatively, drop me an email to see how …
"If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”—Michelangelo What a great quote. An antidote to the idea that organisations and individuals can suddenly change, learn and implement new skills or habits. When trying to change a habit or take on a new …
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This is a beautifully accessible, uplifting, motivational book to help us access our inner potential. There are some great exercises and quotes, some stand out ones for me: Margaret Mead ‘Don’t think that a small group of awakened people cannot change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has’ “Then it was as …
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This lovely article from Justin Wise of Third Space Coaching reminds us to stop and think when we are angry and work out what is really going on and what we want to do next. @Justinadamwise #coaching #leadership
Lovely thought – something often explored in coaching.
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the most common obstacles regarding our intentions and its manifestation is the belief that the object or situation desired is out of our possibilities. That for whatever reason is just not possible to reach such outcome out of our current position.
And to some extent this is true. There is no way we could manifest a given intention or wanting if our current belief is aligned with hopelessness or with any other negative emotional state.
At first sight might seems like the chicken and the egg dilemma: I have to acknowledge the feasibility of a possibility in order for it to actually become possible, but I am unable to acknowledge the likelihood of the possible future events until I see physical evidence of it.
But the true…
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Leaders need to look after themselves as well as their teams to deliver in the long term. I sneaked in an early morning walk. #coaching # Richmond
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