Why core values are important & how to find yours

Do you ever just feel like something is missing? You’re not fulfilled, you’re restless… just not feeling like YOU? Often this is when you’re not living your personal, or core, values.

One simple way to protect your time & energy.

What makes someone else happy isn’t necessarily going to make you happy! So how can you check in with what makes YOU happy, not them; that is to say, don’t assume that you want to be a copywriter because you see someone else loving that job.

Have you found your Word of the Year yet?

A Word of the Year is quite simply a focus point for you, for your coming year. It is there to support you, or challenge you, in the months ahead. You might also think of it as an Energy of the Year.

3 introvert-friendly ways to boost self-confidence

Have you got that core strength? I mean that deep, deep knowledge that, whatever you say, whoever hears you (or doesn’t), you’re totally ok.

Why ‘strategy’ used to scare me, and how trees helped…

Self-belief is easily dented if you let it be; here’s my invitation… if you find yourself feeling less-than because you’re not sure what people are talking about, or you’re in one of those conversations where you feel it’s about to go wrong, call a time-out and check in with word-meanings

This is what I do when I think I can’t do it.

At the start of lockdown, I was unclear on my direction and trembled in front of a room of people. Suddenly I see how it’s possible to take small steps forward.

Who are you right how? and how to use Covey’s ‘roles & goals’ to check in.

I first came across ‘roles & goals’ whilst reading Stephen R. Covey’s 7 Habits book many years ago; applying it at the time to the very discrete areas of ‘work’ and ‘home’ – it’s been a lightbulb moment to realise how much this simple technique can support me now that work and home are inextricably linked…

Change is the only constant…

It can be exhausting to keep up with our own emotions, let alone add in comparing with the ‘progress’ of others as we adjust and making judgements as to ‘how we’re doing’, alongside nurturing your business, adjusting to a new role (or lack of clear role) and possibly home-schooling too.