My Take on Role Models
Whether it’s in your work or career or in the way you live your life you probably have role models who have shaped your behaviours. This may be conscious or at a subconscious level. These role models might be positive ones or people from whom you’ve taken lessons on ‘how not to do it’. Conversely, […] Read More...
Stop being an ‘Ass’! are your assumptions getting in the way of your goals?
How does the saying go? To ASSUME is to make an ASS out of U and ME!….put that way, why would anyone want to live their life based on assumptions? Yet it’s what many of us do a lot of the time… I’ve recently been reading Time to Think by Nancy Kline. In her coaching […] Read More...
7 Steps to making your CV work for you
A great CV enables someone to understand your strengths, talents and experience in an easily accessible way to enable them to decide whether you are a good match for the role and their company. Simple? Then why do so many people get it wrong? Here are some tips to get yours up to scratch. 1.Make […] Read More...
Beliefs – are yours empowering you or holding you back?
Beliefs are the stories we tell ourselves that build up our version of ‘reality’. They inform the decisions we take and the way we live our lives and underpin our self esteem and confidence. Some are helpful and some can be destructive – as Henry Ford highlighted in his quote: “If you think you can […] Read More...
Values – What do you stand for?
Our values underpin the way we live our lives, the decisions we take, the friends we feel most aligned with and the work environments we feel happiest in. Values are the standards and moral principles we live our lives by – what we find important and care about. They define who we are and what […] Read More...
What do you want to BE, DO and HAVE? Achieve your goals…
…if you know what you want out of your personal and business life then you are much more likely to notice and seize the opportunities for moving forward. Here’s an exercise to prompt your thinking – best done over a few days so find a way that suits you of capturing some thoughts on everything that you would […] Read More...
Rejuvenate your Resolutions – Set some Goals instead
Many of us start a New Year by making ‘resolutions’ to change some element of our life. Unfortunately, many fall by the wayside for a number of reasons – see if any of these ring a bell: Your heart wasn’t in it because it was someone else’s idea It was unrealistic given the obstacles you […] Read More...
Get the Habit – Habit 2 – Begin with the End in Mind
The second in a series of articles based on the chapters of Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”. What do you really want out of life? If we think back for a moment to Habit 1 (Be Proactive) – we get out what we put in; life is not something that happens […] Read More...
Create a Vision Board
The second of Stephen Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” is titled ‘Begin with the End in Mind’. In this he asks us to visualise being a fly on a wall at our own funeral, listening to what people are saying about us. A rather morbid concept with a positive intention – he wants […] Read More...