Last week I wrote about the 10 things good leaders should know. If you missed it, click here.A question I often get asked is whether leadership skills can be learned.Some people believe that you either have it or you don’t.I believe that leadership is a way of...
When I say imposter syndrome, what comes up for you? What are your thoughts and feelings on this topic? Do you get a feeling of recognition in the pit of your stomach? Or perhaps it’s more curiosity – What does it mean? How does it show up? Imposter syndrome can...
Why do we let challenges cloud our successes? Why do we overlook the really hard work it takes (and lots of hard times) to reach a successful endpoint? And how can we overcome our feelings of failure and stuckness so we can move into action towards the next goal? In...
As we approach the new year and even a couple of weeks into it, we tend to have the desire to plan, start fresh, and set goals. The truth is that we can set goals anytime we want. There’s really nothing that says we have to wait for 1 January to do that and yet, the...
Here’s a bonus leadership inspiration for today – 50+1! because my list isn’t complete without saying something about gratitude. Being in a daily state of gratitude has been shown to lift our mood, help us manage our challenges and hold an optimistic...
You know that voice in your head that speaks to you and often sows seeds of self-doubt? We all have it. Our unique inner critic that exclaims “idiot” (or something similar) when we make a mistake. The one that says, “You’re not good enough” when you’re already low on...
You can change your thinking to create better results. Is it possible to change our results just by changing our thinking? The short answer is yes! Here’s the long answer… (and there’s an even longer one which I’m happy to send you, see below):...
There’s a story I love about a man who wanted to know the difference between heaven and hell. He was shown two versions of a banquet, one in heaven and one in hell. In hell, he saw people sitting at a big, round table with a large pot of delicious, steaming soup...
Data privacy, love and loss -You may ask, what have these 3 things got to do with each other? They’re 3 elements that bring together Dan Frechtling’s powerful story. When his wife was ill with stage 4 cancer, the statistics said she’d live for 4 months (she actually...