What are you worth? I don’t mean in terms of net worth. I mean fundamentally. How much value do you place in yourself and your capacity to create opportunity and possibility for those in your care (your partner, your family, your team and your organisation)? What is your relationship to investing in yourself and your […]

All through our lives we’ve been told to try, right? I know I’ve said this many times to my own kids, friends, clients and even to myself as well-intentioned motivation to open a window where it seems the door was closed to new possibility. When the ‘But I can’t/Don’t know how!’ protest arises in the […]

A few days ago, someone thanked me for some nice words I had written to them in an email. Given the person was French, a language which collapses the words nice and kind into one translation, I nearly let it pass. Nearly. Nice, is a word that raises my concern and sets off my alarm bells. Here’s why: […]

The annoying truth about thoughts is that they think you, and not the other way around. Read that again. However well-educated and highly up the ladder you may be, your mind still has one over you. It will always revert to unconscious habit, bias and keeping you safely boxed in to ensure your survival. Which […]