Achieving Your Potential Coaching
Navigating life's complexities more skilfully
This wonderful piece from @thisissethsblog String too short to be saved | Seth's Blog had me chortling, admittedly in a slightly uncomfortable fashion... What 'small bumps in the road' was I holding onto as an indicator of my value? What small rejections? I love (and regularly talk to my coachees) about how we can hold onto …
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This is an interesting article that I offer to those of us who regularly wrestle with our inner critic. While I don't think we can silence the critical voice, we can certainly boost 'other voices' and pay much less attention to its messages. https://hbr.org/2016/12/silence-the-critical-voices-in-your-head
Musings inspired by my twice daily wanders around Richmond Park
One of the things I find saddest when working with coaching clients or delivering leadership development is both how hard we are on ourselves when we don't immediately become deeply competent at something and how little work we put into becoming competent! As Seth Godin says - its like riding a bike - "You learn …
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One of the hardest parts of personal growth is building the muscle of self-reflection. At the start it feels like one of the hardest habits to build and perhaps even a little self-indulgent. Yet, as this article 'Why You Should Make Time for Self-Reflection (Even If You Hate Doing it' shows people who reflected for …
Love this snippet from @thisissethsblog! I'm going to try to get clearer about my #mission. You? http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/03/lazy-but-talented.html
Have you got back into work after the Christmas break and feeling you wanted a change? During the break did you you rediscover yourself under the layers of stress and exhaustion? Did you dream of the new job, change in responsibility, improved work relationships? But if only it was as easy as day dreaming - rather …
Are you aware of procrastinating? What is your favourite method? Social media? TV? Tidying? Eating? One of my clients has noticed that he would sometimes rather file his emails than get to the challenging task he is meant to be doing. I view this as good news! He has something to can watch out for …
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I've been delivering a leadership programme with a global company for the last 18 months and loving it! One area that continue to fascinate me is how the leaders work so hard to build global teams - and how much complexity that entails. Whilst I've been focussing on helping them to develop skills as Leaders …
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