In case you are in need of a gift idea for those tricky relatives, Dick Van Dyke – the American actor best known for Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang – recently published ‘100 Rules for Living to 100: An Optimist’s Guide to [...] Read more

So I just learned the most-read blog post on my website this year was the one about being enough. I find that fascinating and telling. Because if there’s one theme I see over and over again in coaching sessions with extremely [...] Read more

As some of you may have seen on LinkedIn, I went to hear Jacinda Ardern speak at the Royal Albert Hall this week. A few nights later, over dinner, I was recounting the experience when someone across the table sneered, “It [...] Read more

Over the past few weeks, there’s been one universal theme in almost every coaching session: overwhelm. It’s not surprising for this time of year but let’s be clear about what’s really happening. When our brain feels overwhelmed, it’s rarely the [...] Read more

A reminder from Ernest Hemingway today: There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.

You may have heard the idea that there are two types of people when it comes to stacking the dishwasher:  The Swedish Architect; and The Wild Racoon.  Obviously, whatever our preferred method, it reveals a truth about us. The dishwasher [...] Read more

A friend sent me a brilliant old clip of Jim Carrey in 2016 about to present a golden globe. He had been introduced on stage as the two-time golden globe winning actor. Jokingly, he said what he really dreamt of [...] Read more

Have you ever embarrassed yourself or felt completely mortified? I sometimes marvel at how public my most embarrassing moments have been. I suspect that falling off the stage at my drama school graduation was probably peak cringe but that was [...] Read more

So I am currently obsessing over Simon Squibb’s book: ‘What’s your dream?’ I love how he applies the ‘non playable character’ in gaming to the ways in which many of us believe we are trapped, stuck or powerless in our [...] Read more

When a client comes to coaching, they are usually wanting something different in their life. Within my coaching toolkit, one coaching tool is ‘The Challenge’. The idea is to challenge a client so far as to render them speechless, at least [...] Read more