Pivotting with new information

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...

Roll the Dice

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....

Schooldays

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....

But luckily

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...

Whether the weather

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...

Sympathy or Empathy

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...

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