Don’t follow your dreams
WTF? A coach, writing an article entitled “Don’t follow your dreams?” What next, a nutritionist telling you to eat processed food? The coaching world is absolutely choc-a-bloc with articles and courses on how to smash your goals, make your dreams come true and change your world. All of them look so enticing! I mean, to…
Not all coaching is created equal.
The path into using a coach goes a little bit like this: You feel that something is missing. You feel that something isn’t quite right. You feel that in some way your life, or your business or your job needs to be, in some way, better. Or perhaps you think you need a partner, or…
The Business Illusion
Question – What have you ever experienced outside of awareness? Answer – Nothing. We live in a world of apparent form and realness. Assuming things to be fixed and finite in time and space. When on closer investigation it turns out that the only way any of this can exist is through our ‘knowing’ of…
Chasing Perfection (or ‘good enough’)
How much time do we spend chasing being perfect, getting things spot on, being ‘good enough’? Even the most slapdash amongst us have certain standards that we think we need to meet! Whether it’s time spent on the tasks themselves, or just the mental effort of thinking about how things ‘should’ be, and worrying about…
Dealing with hostility, grudges and conflict in Business
Unfortunately, it pretty common for (at least mild) situations of hostility and conflict to rise within business. This may be between colleagues, or at times with customers, competitors and suppliers. These types of situations can also arise within personal situations, between friends, families, partners, sports teams and so on. It’s one of the areas that…
Your are not your thoughts: Business
What does knowing that you are not your thoughts mean to business professionals? Clients and people who attend my seminars get taught an understanding which shows them they they are not their thoughts. They are the ever present awareness that comes before thought, and regardless of what thought may be telling then, whatever situation they…
Why can’t we all stick to schedules?
You know that bit of you that doesn’t like being told what to do? I know it well, it’s a part of the reason I’m self-employed. Well do you think that part of you likes being told what to do by YOU anymore than it likes being told what to do by anyone else? Could…
Alex’s story – running a business in an off mindset
Alex is a business person. Alex is also a human being. As such, Alex is subject to the same fluctuation in thoughts and feelings as you and me. Alex’s story is an interesting and very familiar one. See if you can identify with Alex’s experience, and whether what Alex learnt could be usual for you…
Who is the “I” that feels stressed in business…?
It’s an unusual question to ask, but follow with it, if you’re game… When we think about stress, we usually attach how we are feeling to some kind of circumstance that affects the business. Maybe difficult market conditions, one of your colleagues, a really tight deadline, a cashflow that is quite stretched. It appears to…
5 benefits ISO 14001 Brings to Businesses
Business ethics are important to me, so here is a guest post on ISO 14001 As a coach who works with businesses, I am always keen to share thoughts on how working ethically and in an environmentally conscious way can bring huge benefits within the business. I’m as passionate about this as I am about…