Everyone has tasks they put off. Those ‘impossible’ or ‘uncomfortable’ small things you know you should get round to but can’t quite face just now. So, here’s a simple way to overcome your anxiety-related procrastination… #Scaryhour Here’s how it works: Ring fence an hour each day – set your timer
Let go of people who aren’t ready to love you. The words below from Sir Anthony Hopkins are particularly powerful. On reading them, I was reminded of a conversation over a year ago between myself and my own coach, Bruce. During our chat about general ‘busyness’, it became apparent that
Following on from my article in December about ‘How to say ‘no’ without feeling guilty’ – I wanted to share this article and five brilliant pointers by Michael Hyatt and Co reiterating why saying ‘no’ is so important. In short, you make your ‘yes’ more valuable by setting your default
In just five minutes, Patty McCord, the iconic former chief talent officer at Netflix, shares the key insights that led her to toss the handbook out the window. It’s inspiring and absolutely spot on. Well worth a watch. I particularly like the lesson about being “great companies to be from”.
In general, we all struggle at times to say no. Saying ‘no’ to our family, ‘no’ to our friends, ‘no’ to our boss, clients or even just those people who are persistent or borderline pushy can be challenging, but inevitably, if we’re saying ‘yes’ when we really want to say
Every now and then I feel compelled to include some content in the etc Playbook that is less work, more life (you can argue the two are one and the same but you get what I mean) and this staggeringly strong and simple idea from the clever and lovely people
Eventually, in virtually every spiritual and religious tradition, you’ll encounter the same advice when it comes to time: that we’re better off confining our attentions to the present moment than struggling to manipulate what’s coming next. “Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter’s place”
People don’t argue with rules. Decisions are hard and there’s a reason people do things to limit the decisions they make each day. They wear the same clothes, have the same thing for breakfast, drink the same type of coffee, and so on. After a long day of work, making
Recently, during a growth planning workshop, a client team challenged me to re-engineer my well-proven approach to thinking about business worth. They wanted to attribute a value to “doing good” in their planning. They wanted to find a way to quantify kindness. [Spoiler: we haven’t succeeded yet – but we
I sometimes wonder about sharing articles like this because at first glance it appears to have nothing to do with business (and might also seem a little ‘heard it all before’). But as a coach, I know that learning how to be your most authentic self transforms not just your
