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As I listened to this women tell me (and herself) how "I've got to get this right' and "this has just got to work out" and "if it's not now then I'll have missed my chance" I asked her this question. "Has it ever occurred to you how tough you are to yourself?" She...

I can remember the exact moment – the fork in the road if you will – when I knew I had to do something.  Something else.   Working as I had in London for over 20 years for one of top global insurance brokers, I’d progressed from being an...

When you dare yourself to do something (you do that don't you?!) how do you do it? It occurred to me that as we get older (and not always wiser I might add) we tend to be less daring.   Less willing to put ourselves out there.  Less willing to say "Yes"...

"It's never too late" is a phrase we hear ourselves say to others all the time.   People will tell us about something they want to do, place they want to go and how they're hesitating or feeling it's too late...and we will encourage them with that phrase... But...

"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die." Oh my goodness, what an emotive quote that is.   Attributed to Buddha and one which rings true on so many levels for so many of us.  It certainly does for me. I also think...

For nearly 3 weeks we've been having our front drive reconfigured.  At one stage we had a 'moat' as a lot of soil around a rose bed was dug out. Noisy, dusty, dirty and longer-than-quoted.  Heyho.   We stayed in the 'messy middle' part for longer than...

After a break of nearly 12 months off I went again!  One of my positive intentions for 2023 is to pick up speaking French again and to reconnect with a tutor - and scratch my brain for vocabulary lurking in there from the 1990s when I lived in Paris....

There's a well-known saying "as one door closes another one opens" and it's true, just not always obviously nor on the same day. As I decided mid-year last year that it was time to change things up in my life, create more space, work more mindfully and...

We're often being told to "stop living in the past" and to "forget it, it's gone" or such advice.   The intention is positive of course.  We can't change what's happened and we can't undo or unsay what's been done or said. We can however learn from it. ...

One of my mentoring group members told our gathered group something which has us spitting feathers!  Metaphorically speaking but you get the idea.   Annoyed.  Outraged.  Infuriated.  A couple of us swore. Jane, let's call her, had deputised...