One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned in my professional and creative life is that no one will value my work and expertise unless I do. As a creative, I struggle, alongside many of my peers to see the commercial value in my work when the market is so quick to ask for it for […]
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It’s Valentine’s Day today and later this morning I’ll be doing a Valentine-themed reading in the RDS library. I’m really looking forward to that, but I’m not looking forward to beating my way through the thousands of ads encountered during the day that suggest the only way to express true love is though the purchase
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I’m currently beat into a book called Sapiens which strives to record the potted history of our particular branch of the genus Homo. It’s a fascinating read on many levels but as a coach I was particularly struck by Harari’s comments on how, since the Agricultural Revolution approximately 10,000 years ago, we’re often ending up
Tomorrow a new year begins. Hard to believe, isn’t it? (we say that every year, but it’s true every year!) Here’s a few tips to increase our chances of setting and achieving realistic goals for a happier and healthier self for the year ahead: Our brains are programmed to respond to positive commands. For example,
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Can you beat conversations that begin with – I read something amazing the other day. In my experience, what typically follows is some piece of information or knowledge that’s capable of blowing our tiny minds and expanding our worldview. As the poet Louis MacNeice beautifully put it in his poem Snow – ..World is crazier and more
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It’s alright for that ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu to go on and on about ‘When nothing is done, nothing is left undone’ or that Steven Covey bloke to talk about taking time out of our busy schedule to ‘Sharpen the saw’ – they don’t have any idea of how busy we really are, and
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Three times in the last week, I’ve had conversations with people that have gone something like this: I can’t believe how sleepy I’m feeling these days. All I want to do is curl up with a duvet/chocolate/glass of wine/month’s viewing of Netflix. I yawn in agreement. For years I beat myself up about what I
On my regular very slow jog up the canal (even the ducks have been known to challenge me to a race, and you know how short their legs are!), I am often too busy chatting with my faithful companion Monkey Mind to notice my surroundings. This morning however, the rather creative rendering of the sign
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Over the years I’ve heard every version of this question. Once or many times it came out of my own mouth. The scariest thing about the question is we won’t know the answer until we do the work and put it out there. How do we find the courage to do that? Put
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