A peek behind the scenes of a client’s coaching experience
Published: Thu, 03/07/24
Let me tell you about a client I’ve been coaching. We’ll call him R. R and I have been working together since October. When we first spoke, R e…
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My work/life balance advice for Willy Wonka
Published: Wed, 03/06/24
Last week, the British press had a field day reporting on a Willy Wonka Chocolate E perience in Glasgow. “E perience” is probably the wrong word.
The no-brainer reasons I’m putting my price up
Published: Tue, 03/05/24
Yesterday I wrote about why I went back to the 9 to 5. And this leads me nicely onto an announcement I’m making today: I’m about to put up my price…
Why I went back to the 9 to 5
Published: Mon, 03/04/24
For those not in the know: After two years of gainful unemployment, I returned to my old banking job at Lloyds Bank on the 31st October last year.
The greene light to be yourself
Published: Fri, 03/01/24
In 1949, New Statesman ran a quirky challenge. The magazine asked its readers to write a couple of paragraphs parodying the style of any novelist with…
Why “How do I find…?” might be the wrong question
Published: Thu, 02/29/24
There’s a question I often get asked on my coaching calls. It takes a similar form. Usually “How do I find…?” or “How can I be…?” For instance: How do…
Rules of living vs rules of life
Published: Wed, 02/28/24
Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be (Wayne Dyer) For much of my 20s, it looked…
The Coaching Playground
Published: Tue, 02/27/24
A couple of weeks ago, Lauren and I flicked on Apple TV and settled down on the sofa with a bo of After Eights to watch the movie Greyhound. For those…
What sports betters can teach us about decision-making
Published: Mon, 02/26/24
In the 1970s, a famous study took place on horse race betting by a psychology professor called Paul Slovic. Slovic got together a bunch of…
How to get out of your head
Published: Fri, 02/23/24
One piece of advice I often see warbled and shrilled by the personal development dimfluencers? “Try to get out of your head” These words drive me…