OK, it’s a simple and almost silly question, but let’s frame it in a useful way. Imagine you have woken up on a Sunday morning, checked your lottery ticket and you are the only winner of this week’s jackpot – £4.3 million. To quote the presenters of the Lottery programme, “it’s a life changing amount”. … Read more
I know this isn’t terribly original, but it is very important! First a comparison: When we take a walk, and we don’t know the route – the walk out always feels slower and longer than the walk back. Of course it isn’t, it’s the same length. Because the route is unfamiliar and there are no … Read more
…. in case you need just a little more tempting to follow the link, here is a short poem from ‘Scrapes against the Soul’: Pictures on the wall were all taken with this new camera Living in a world where every second can be captured as a Perfect digital image. Still or moving images Everything … Read more
If you follow the link to the ‘free stuff‘ page, you will be now be able to download a free PDF booklet of ‘Scrapes against the Soul’, a booklet of poems which I produced last year. Coming soon – ‘November Suite’ – a booklet produced (not surprisingly) last November.
Here I am, sitting on a train travelling back from London on a Friday afternoon, writing direct to computer. I’m thinking about some of the things that have pre-occupied me this week. There is so much chaos around for me at the moment. As an antidote to all the upheaval I am meditating regularly. I … Read more
Well, the booklet ‘Scrapes against the Soul’ was completed towards the end of last year. I am just tidying up the manuscript so that I can share it as a pdf file for download. In the meantime, I thought it would be fun to convert the entire booklet into a wordle and post it here … Read more
The model which follows was developed in a coaching session with a client who was experiencing a process of massive change for the organisation that she was leading. At these times it is often difficult to see ‘the wood for the trees’. One can easily feel overwhelmed with the volume of work that needs … Read more
OK, so you have a crisis on your hands. And then that is followed with another crisis. You are really clear that the challenge for you above everything else is to find a way to avoid feeling sorry for yourself. Finding a way to ensure that you don’t start to look for as many things … Read more
So we all find it difficult at times to apply ourselves to the things that need doing, when there are lots of things that don’t need doing, but we want to do because they are fun! This morning I was supposed to be settling to the redrafting of the new book which I feel like … Read more
Over the coming weeks I will be posting excerpts from a new booklet which I am working on. Called ‘The Coaching 30’ it will be available as a pdf downloadable file with 30 sections, each giving a tip or suggestion which I use in my coaching practise. Some of these tips will be ideas which … Read more