Achieving Your Potential Coaching
Navigating life's complexities more skilfully
Sometimes potential clients ask why people look for an Executive Coach. If I imagine flying above the current situation and hover above the many varied and different challenges we face it often comes down to the fact that clients want to find and take a different path. That might be a new way of managing …
Fractals in nature, Richmond Park 2019 I love/hate this piece 'The four of you' from @justinadamwise. The idea that when you are in conversation with just one other person, there are actually another two characters there. Uninvited characters.... As we talk to another, especially when the stakes are high or our resilience is low, we …
Unravel #2 by Andrea Benson The possibilities offered by the word unravelling continues to fascinate, as does this image from Andrea Benson. Unravelling is a chance for investigating. As we unravel we can start to see the stories that bind and blind. The stories that bind us to current ways of thinking, feeling and reacting. …
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Great read from Seth Godin today about our stories. As you might have noticed I'm really interested in what helps us make the changes we want to and what holds us back in the patterns that no longer help us. Many of us want to do things differently - speak up in meetings, respond differently …
Continue reading "Its the stories we tell ourselves that determine who we will become"
I've worked with many leaders over the last twenty years who want to talk about culture. I love it, but there is often an under-belly - a little bit, 'do as I say, not what I do'. The leader who wants their team to be more creative, yet doesn't manage how they respond to ideas …
Richmond Park 30 January 2019 The waning crescent moon hangs low in the morning sky as if balancing just above the frosty treetops. Its delicate light illuminates the landscape in all its glorious detail. Each blade of grass, each tussock, hinting at things yet to come. All this possibility is burnt away by the light …
Continue reading "Thoughts from the park: By the light of the moon"
I was with a client recently and at the same moment we both remembered this quote. We both recoiled as we remembered that we hold ourselves back sometimes, not living our dreams, playing slightly smaller to keep out of too much trouble. It acted as a good reminder to focus on what we really want …
Using nature to vaporise our old stories to start anew.
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
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