We all have our inner demons – the things we are afraid of. My girlie scream at the sight of a sizeable spider in the bath is the stuff of family legend – but nothing scares me more than heights. I used to listen to Wayne Dyer cassette tapes in the 90’s, suggesting that heights
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Today I’ll be working with a former client who has asked me back in (after a break of some years) to work on a business and personal vision for his future. There is no problem to solve here apart from a very full book, a waiting list for treatment and a bursting calendar of clinical,
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We identify the hamster wheel as a metaphor for work that has taken control of our lives. Running for the sake of running. Running faster and faster but, ultimately, going nowhere. Get up, go to work, come home, go to bed, get up – repeat. One of the reasons I get hired to facilitate monthly
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Here’s a personal coaching exercise for you, the benefit of which can be to improve your confidence. I propose a time and motion study of your last 7 days. Calculate how much time you spent in each of the follow states: Hibernate – good quality sleep Hyper-activate – aerobic exercise Activate – doing that thing
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Part 1 I’ve listened to 4 dental practice owners cry in the last 4 weeks – 2 female, 2 male. All they had in common was that they owned a dental practice that wasn’t performing to expectations (one of them wasn’t a dentist but an owner). Crying tears of frustration, exhaustion and fear. My job
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Nicola Cairncross and Judith Morgan co-host a weekly Podcast called Own It! Your Business AND Your Life. After nearly a year and a half they found they wanted to dig a bit deeper and really get behind the rather cheesy and, quite frankly, rather unbelievable popular dream of the laptop lifestyle. They’ve interviewed people who either
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