Reflecting on Life: A Heartfelt Eulogy Turned Reminder – Insights from a Business Coach
I wrote this and put it on LinkedIn and Insta on 13th December 2022. My dad died on 26th March 2023, almost 10 months ago.
I sat down to write my dad's eulogy…
He’s not even dead.
Isn’t it strange that the most profound words we will ever speak about someone will likely be after they can’t hear them?
Is Coaching the New Love Drug?
On a scientific level, through regular coaching sessions, your brain receives a healthy cocktail of dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin. During work, however, most of the time, our systems are flooded with stress, anxiety, adrenaline and cortisol. Action-based tasks drive us, and we forget or neglect the hormones required for things such as good decision-making, team building, trust and performance, confidence and happiness.
Depression or a Dark Night of the Soul?
A Dark Night of the Soul can look like Depression!
A Dark Night of the Soul is the progressive ‘emptying out’ of the ego. It is not a walk in the park!
The Best Way to deal with Inner Conflict
Understanding Parts has been a game-changer for me and my business coaching clients. But what is Parts Work?
Challenges — Essential for our Evolution
Nobody wants an easy life, not really. Because that's not where the reward is.
Yet facing the confusion and uncertainty of a challenge in work can be isolating, it can be stressful and it can keep us busy.
We can get distracted and caught up in the grip of it all and become lost and stuck.
The Best Way To Understand Your Strengths (And Weaknesses) Is To Work With A Coach
The thing about strengths is that they can be hard to get a grasp on. Having been an entrepreneur for a while now you probably have a sense of what your strengths are but can you really get your hands around them and leverage them?
Feel the fear and 5-Rhythms anyway.
Have you ever had the experience of dancing wildly? Where you are completely lost but also totally found in your own body, and in the music and the scene…
Psychological efficiency
Forming Habits is not about efficiency!
Initially, it’s the opposite.
Forming a habit is inefficient.
Efficiency comes later.
The things you learn from your coaches
Do you know how to tie your shoes?
I thought I did…
When I found out I didn’t, it turned my world upside down…
If you’ve lost your Motivation… this’ll help
From time to time I hear this –almost un-permissible– phrase from my friends and clients:
“I’ve lost my motivation”
...or Drive ...or Passion
Therapy, should I..?
Covid has forced us all to spend more time with our partners, family, kids or just alone with ourselves and this has led to a greater awareness of just how out-of-balance our inner world (and outer world) can be.
These days I’m quite open about the amount of therapy I’ve had.
How to get high-quality sleep. zzZ
You need to wind down before sleep, here’s how I do that… it works!
How to BEcome more Emotionally Intelligent right now
How do you really feel?
“Fine” won’t cut it…
Here’s how to un-stick the destructive (or creative) power from within and become more emotionally intelligent at the same time. It’s deceptively simple…
How does Coaching commence? And. What is Contracting?
Coaching could be perceived as an informal intervention. At times it can look and feel like you’re just having a chat. Contracting is the formal discussion that precedes a coaching programme.