Let me encourage you as we approach Christmas to choose joy. It is the time of year when Christmas Carols are sung around the world. Quite a few of them talk about joy. “Joy to the world,†is one that comes to mind. The interesting thing about joy is that
It doesn’t seem like 5 minutes since the last Christmas. Christmas is a great time of year to get together with family and friends. It’s time for the office party. Yet it is can also be a time of increased stress and disagreement. Is all disagreement negative? I don’t believe
Could 2023 be your best year in business to date? How are you thinking about 2023? As you approach the new year are you excited, apprehensive, optimistic, maybe terrified? I attended a workshop last week on business growth. Their view is it’s a great time to be in business. Inflation
Have you ever suffered from a sense of being overwhelmed? This has been my recent experience and in doing something about it I am laying out for you a route out of your own overwhelm. What threatens to overwhelm is different for all of you. It could be the size
Today I thought I would draw the curtain back a little on how coaches work with you to succeed as a business owner, leader, or just in life. People get into running a business for all sorts of reasons. Perhaps one of your reasons was sovereignty over your time. But
At the beginning of this year, we determined to push the button on a house move realising that this would mean wrestling with change as a result. What we didn’t know at the time was how elongated the change would be. Although we moved out at the end of April
Last weekend the UK switched to Daylight Savings Time. The clocks went back one hour. In other words, we got to do the hour over again. Granted most of us were asleep and so didn’t notice. But it got me wondering, ‘What if you had the opportunity to do something
The leadership that has been on display from successive Prime Ministers have been salutary lessons in the art of how not to lead. My reflection on what has happened, particularly in Liz Truss’s case is that she failed to remember the first rule of leadership which is that great leaders
Have you ever had the thought how far can I go when thinking about your life? When our children were a lot younger, one of the questions they would ask, almost as soon as we pulled off our driveway, was ‘are we nearly there yet?’ The question implies that there
Hope is a choice. There is plenty of bad news around at the moment. Whether it is the war in the Ukraine, the energy crisis, or the ramping up of inflation. The question in my mind is ‘what is my response to this going to be?’ I cannot do much