Improv

“No but” – you can hearing it coming and you know it’s going to wind you up. We’ve been told to try to avoid “No but” as the first words someone hears from us and yes, like a bad penny, it turns up time and again…...

The Natural Shift

Just because something was lovely, worked well for you, felt right, felt a fit…doesn’t mean to say it always will. “Errr, yes – of course Kay” of course it doesn’t.  Things change around us, we change, the focus, the...

GSI

Oh my goodness, if ever there was some advice to share with you it’s this. Get Someone In (GSI) Rather than try to know everything, do everything, sort everything – GSI. When i reflect on the 19 years of all the different strands of creating and running my...

Daring Yourself

I’ve always been a good planner… don’t know where the planning gene came from exactly but I do know this.  I like to get as much done in advance, understood in advance, communicated in advance of an event/experience/commitment as possible. So...

Contain it

Instead of the perfunctory “Hi, how are you?” question (which drives me nuts and I do my best to avoid answering) I always recommend containing the question by just asking “Hi, how are you today?” It’s such a different energy.  You...

Buying Time

I very rarely answer a question if I don’t want to.  Not straight out of the gate. There’s a thought that says if you’re asked a question you should answer it but my thinking is different. If I’m asked a question and I want to answer it, I...

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