How can we do our best work if we don’t know what we need to do it?
While we often aim to do or be our best, how often do we step back to understand what doing our best work looks like and what we need to do that? This blog explores the benefits of understanding what we need to do our best work and offers questions to create that understanding so we can enable us to do more of our best work
I’ll get to that but I’m procrastinating first. What if procrastination is part of the process?
Procrastination is often seen as a negative, something that shows we’re not good at doing important things or things we want. That perspective in itself can only make procrastination worse. This blog explores what it would be like to reframe procrastination as part of the process of starting and asks what impact our relationship to procrastinating has on us doing what we really want to do.
Navigating the discomfort of positive change: what are the new patterns and how can we welcome them in?
Even positive change we want to experience can be met with resistance and discomfort. This blog explores how we can welcome in the positive changes we want in our lives through habits and understanding the old patterns we a slowly replacing.
What if we really knew our strengths and what would it be to apply that to our whole life?
We often hear ‘play to your strengths’, but how well do we know our strengths? If we do know our strengths, what would it be like to apply them to our whole lives rather than specific contexts? This blog offers questions to better know our strengths and considers the benefit of knowing and owning these strengths.
What helps us maintain the clarity we need to live the life we want?
However helpful clarity can often feel elusive. What if clarity is always there and it is a case of returning to that clarity? This blog explores how we can find clarity and asks what are the practices we can implement to help us return to that clarity?
What is our relationship to us? Reframing reframing navigate setbacks.
Reframing is a valuable tool to navigate setbacks, but it is easier said than done. This blog explores how our relationship to us shapes how we may respond and reframe setbacks and asks what can we do to cultivate the relationship with ourselves we need to live the life we want.
What if leading is really about giving us the things to be more of us?
What if empowering leadership starts with empowering ourselves? This blog asks what do we need to empower ourselves in life, to take leadership in life and to be fully us, and in doing so how can we empower others to take leadership in their life.
Being and becoming - how are we being what we want to become and becoming what we want to be?
We are always becoming something and we are always being something. This blog explores how conscious are we of what we want to become and what we are being and asks how we can both be and become what we want now and in the future.
What if ‘I wish I was like…’ was a reminder that we are all amazing, resourceful human beings?
What if when we wished we were more like x or y we used that comparison as a reminder that people are remarkable and resourceful and that we too are? This blog looks at reframing comparison and the importance of a positive perspective in a more complete picture to make decisions with.
What if we focused on just showing up?
Showing up is the first step to the things we want in life. Showing up is easier said than done. This blog explores what gets in the way of showing up and asks what the world would be like if we all just showed up more.
In each moment, what are the 3 words that will navigate us?
If we had three words that were both our destination and our way what would they be? Inspired by the idea of what3words, this blog offers a way of finding 3 words to help us navigate and locate ourselves in our lives, to bring more of what we want into everyday.
When we want more of something in our lives, sometimes the simplest way is all we need to get going?
Sometimes what we think we need gets in the way of us doing what we want. This blog explores how we can have more of what we want in life by focusing on starting with the simplest version of what we want.
Our ideas are seeds, it is up to us to cultivate them.
So many of our ideas are discarded. Often we find reasons to discard them whether it be time or fears, regardless of whether we really want to explore that idea. This blog reframes ideas about seeds to help us more consciously choose what ideas we want to cultivate based on knowing what they need to grow and how we want them to be. In reframing ideas as seeds we are reminded that it is up to us to choose the seeds we want to plant as much as it is the ones we discard.
What if the answer is not the outcome, the outcome is only the product of the journey we follow?
We often convince ourselves that things will be better in the future. When I’ve done this, when I’ve achieved that. Yet, when we get there, the answer we’re looking for isn’t there. This blog explores how we can find the answer as much in the pursuit of something we want as in attaining it. We explore how we can reframe the journey to ensure that, regardless of the outcome, the process is just as valuable as what we sought all along.
What can my Year 7 art lesson teach me about finding perspective to focus on what matters on a daily basis?
Perspective helps us refocus on what matters. The problem with perspective is it an be hard to find. When we think about drawing perspective we can see way we can create perspective day to day and ensure we are focusing on what is important to us. This blog explores how we can create the conditions for perspective, to focus on what really matters for us.
How can our relationship to time contribute to the life we want to live?
How we spend our time and how we feel about time - our relationship with time - can highlight how we live our lives compared to how we want our lives to be. This blog explores how we can use this awareness to reframe our relationship to time to choose how we want it to be and how we want to give our time to be who we want to be and live the lives we want to live.
What can movie quicksand tell us about getting unstuck?
So often when we’re stuck we get even more stuck trying to get unstuck. Like those scenes in the movies when a character is stuck in quicksand and only sinks deeper as they struggle to get out, our approach to feeling stuck in life can often be the same. However, just like in the movies, the approach to getting unstuck can also be similar. This blog explores an alternative approach for when we’re stuck, one that means however stuck we are we don’t miss out nor neglect the rest of life.
A wonderful life isn’t just from things going our way
Our plans and goals - what we want - so often blur our approach to achieving the what. While plans are important and the New year is an opportunity to reset and refresh our direction, in exploring one of the most well known Christmas films, this blog looks at the importance of how we approach life alongside working towards and getting what we want. In fact regardless of the outcome, the how can often be the thing that matters most.
The empowering practice of cultivating awareness
Awareness, provides a clarity in what can otherwise feel like chaos. With that awareness we are empowered to respond to the moment rather than react. This blog explores how we can develop our awareness and how cultivating a practice of acceptance, finding perspective and living self-compassionately can contributes to a more consistent awareness, an awareness that empowers us in the moment.
‘It’s not you, it’s me’. How the less obvious relationships in our life can have the biggest impact.
Often the relationships we’re least conscious of can most shape how we live our life. This blog poses questions to explore what our relationship is to ourselves, to work, and to the life we want to live to highlight how clarifying what relationships we want in these areas can help us clarify and move towards the life we want.