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Isn't it easy and, to a point, natural to take things for granted? I call them the 'little big things'.   The things like walking, jumping up out of your seat, reading, speaking, sleeping, going to the loo.  All the things that function for us if...

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."  ~ Brene Brown Well goodness me.  Do you do that?  Are you conscious of how you talk to yourself either aloud or silently? I can catch myself telling myself how silly I am or how I've 'done it...

"When I argue with reality I lose, but only 100% of the time..."  This quote from Byron Katie the author, speaker and healer spoke to me when I first heard it on so many levels. The point she was making is we can waste so much time and effort and get so bent out...

Well, some people tell me "that's it Kay, I've made up my mind and there's no changing it" which always makes an alarm bell go off for me. Now I'm not suggesting it's best to be flip/flopping with a decision you've made - no, that's exhausting and annoying for...

One of my go-to phrases when wrestling with a tough decision is this. "What's the worst that can happen AND how will I handle that?" The key to this is the second part.  We can easily catastrophise things and, particularly we as women do. "Oh my what if that...

There's a phrase "Everyday's a school day" which I love with its implication that every day is an opportunity to learn something, to develop. I said this once to a client who said along the lines "Oh my goodness, I certainly hope not.  I hated school, just hated...

You know when you hear something and it just makes sense?  Makes you stop in your tracks (or in my case, stop the Podcast I was listening to) and write it down. Well, the phrase "But luckily" was just such a phrase. I was listening to Diary of a CEO, a...

I'm very good at dishing it out.  "There's what you plan and then there's what happens" is one of my go-to phrases I use when supporting a client with her various career pivots and pirouettes. That whole "be flexible" and "expect the unexpected" sense of...

You might be wondering why the text below is all in bold ?   Well, it's because I asked the Artificial Intelligence App, ChatGPT"What's the difference between empathy and sympathy?"  and the response came back in Bold.   I wanted to cut/paste and show...

Janet had known for a while that she was being made redundant.  Her team would be restructured and her role would, effectively, be disappearing. We both know she's not alone in this situation and it's all too common now to be completely 'poleaxed' if and when it...