Articles & Resources

Clarity Sometimes Comes When You’re Not Looking

There is often a lot of talk within the coaching world around clarity, especially when comes to finding a career you want to move into. But sometimes, clarity comes when you least expect it and when you're not looking. It has taken me to get to nearly 53 to be clear...

Are You Following the Career You Intended or Did You Fall Into It?

In one of her excellent podcast episodes, Kimberly B Cummings highlights "meaningful career moves do not happen without intention." I couldn't agree with this more. When thinking about my first career, the only intention I had was to find a job. I wasn't even thinking...

Make the Right Next Choice in Your Career

Changing careers at any stage in your life can feel daunting, especially if you are doing it during your midlife years, but it doesn't need to be. There is a tendency to think if you are unhappy in your current career then the only choice you have is to leave...

50 in 2020 and my 20:20 Goal Challenge

The turn of the new year is often a time for many people to make New Year's Resolutions aka as New Year's Delusions or New Year False Promises, for others it is a time to reflect on the year that has just past and to look forward to the year ahead. For me, I'll be...

Why is it Easy to Invest in Others but not in Yourself?

Has anyone every asked you to lend them some money, allow them to crash at yours for a few nights, asked you to play taxi for them etc? Have you ever said no to them? The chances are you haven't or don't as often as you would like to. The thing is we often invest more...

Who’s on Your Island with You?

I often talk about the importance of having a support network, of ditching the toxic people in your life. I understand that this might be difficult to do and if they are family members, it might be impossible to do but you can choose how much time you spend with them...

Reflections on the 30-Day Blog Challenge

Hard to believe but the end of the challenge is here, today's is blog number 30!!! Looking back, I was naive when I set the 30-Day Blog Challenge; I didn't appreciate how all-consuming it would become or just how hard it would be to write something that had to be...

Are you Following Your Dreams?

It has taken many years and a lot of time doing what is popularly called "personal development" work to get where I am today. Along the way I feel I have grown as a person. I have made changes, not just been in my career, but the things I have learnt during that time...

7 Steps to Create Balance in Your Life

It is very easy to feel overwhelmed in life, not having a moment to yourself, not doing the things you love and spending too much time working, doing long hours in the office and then more at home. Creating balance within your life is about making conscious choices...

Standing Out in a Crowded World

One of the challenges when starting out your own business, creating a new venture, being seen within at work for the effort you put in or if you're looking for a new partner is how to put yourself out there. In doing so you leave yourself open to criticism or...
Be SMART with Your Goal Setting

Be SMART with Your Goal Setting

When it comes to setting your goals there are several key points to be mindful of if you are wanting a successful outcome. Goals are part of our day to day living from small to big, we set them throughout our entire lives. Think of your goals in different...

Is Your Career Meeting Your Expectations?

Is Your Career Meeting Your Expectations?

We often have certain expectations about jobs or careers. Sometimes this involves stereotypes, generalised information based upon limited knowledge and not grounded in reality. Other times, they come from when you feel like you have a vocation, that strong...

Be Responsible for Your Life

Be Responsible for Your Life

Be responsible for your life… that might seem like an obvious statement, I mean after all who else is going to be responsible for it. So, let's talk about responsibility…how are you living your life right now? We often imagine we have a line we will not...

5 Stumbling Blocks to Change

5 Stumbling Blocks to Change

If you read yesterday's blog in which I was talking about beliefs and those which limit us, in today's blog I continue along a similar theme, looking more at what's potentially going on behind those beliefs which hold us back from living the life we want....

What’s Your Reality?

What’s Your Reality?

In this moment think about all the beliefs you hold; what you believe about yourself, of those around you and the wider world. Consider how those beliefs influence how you think, feel and behave. Beliefs are our current thinking, judgements and evaluations...

The One Thing About Passion

The One Thing About Passion

Several years ago, I was in the audience of the motivational speaker, Hilary Wilson, where she challenged us to ask ourselves regarding work, "What am I doing when I feel most alive?" At the time I was considering the direction of my career, and to me, this...