Today I’m writing about a topic close to my heart, in fact close to everyone’s heart. I’m talking about love. Recently I’ve been learning to love myself (and truly love myself for who I am right now, not an idealistic version of myself). I’ve found through this process that it’s having two amazing unexpected outcomes. […]
For a while now I’ve been really interested in learning more about getting into a state of ‘flow’. The term flow is used to describe a peak state of consciousness where we’re in the moment and things seem to just ‘flow’. Sometimes it’s referred to as being ‘in the zone’. Sometimes things will seem to […]
A couple of weeks ago I facilitated a leadership course for a group of 15 public library leaders. I’ve been facilitating leadership courses for a few years now, so in some senses this is nothing new for me. This time, however, it felt different. Mostly this was a mindset change, and I was amazed at […]
I’m starting this post sitting in a fabulous cafe/restaurant in Marple after an inspiring morning of Street Wisdom with Claire Bradshaw (if you’re not familiar, I previously wrote about Street Wisdom). Today’s experience was a little different in that there is more open space where we met so we explored green space more than city […]
Recently I received some excellent coaching that resulted in a shift in my thinking, and helped me make progress on an area I had been struggling with but wasn’t sure why. It’s caused me to rethink things in a number of different areas and I thought I’d share it in case it might be valuable […]
We’ve come to the end of February, a month commonly associated with love. I’ve been working through Fearne Cotton’s Happy Journal which took love as its focus for the month and has encouraged me to reflect on love in all sorts of different ways. I also completed a challenge for Mind (the mental health charity) […]
Recently I’ve been coaching a number of people who have at certain stages identified the fact that there is a certain message they need to remind themselves of on a regular basis. Some people call this a mantra (though to some this phrase makes them cringe so I won’t be using it in this post!). […]
My focus for this year is to be courageous – you can read more about this in my blog post on choosing a word for the year. In 2017, I did some really exciting things, and I could have done more exciting things if I had been more courageous. I’m now focusing my energy on doing things […]
Last week I had a coaching call that was particularly important to me. I really wanted it to be a success – even moreso than usual. Afterwards, I was reflecting on the conversation. On many levels, it could have been classed as a failure. Here are just some of the reasons it could be considered […]
As we come to the end of the year, I’ve been reflecting back on my favourite things from 2017. I record my favourite moments in my bullet journal every month, but I thought it might be interesting to share some of my favourites from the year. Watching This year I’ve absolutely loved two TV shows […]