Twelve years in the corporate world. Looking back, in some ways it was like being a cocoon. Or, perhaps oddly, a womb, of sorts. And so being borne into the self-employed world in 2016 was a shock. I felt about as ready for it as a new born in the National Maternity Hospital is for […]
6 Whatsapp notifications; ‘I’ve got to go into town’; 14 unread e-mails; ‘The washing is nearly done’; 19 Instagram stories; ‘I’m tired’ ———————————————————————- There is world of competition for your attention. And it is that very thing, attention, that you need to take you into your high quality, focus and productivity zone. In the book, […]
‘You haven’t done enough prep for this.’ ‘What happens if you don’t say the right thing?’ ‘Are you really qualified to do be doing this work?’ ‘They sound like they know more than me.’ ‘I don’t think I can do this.’ These are some of the statements of doubt that have at times gripped me […]
It’s worth pausing for moment, I offer. Just to take a moment to acknowledge how fantastically well we’ve done to be here. To get to this point from March 2020. Outstanding. Because it’s been tough. It is tough. No question. Well actually, here’s one: What would you say have been the toughest parts of the […]
Two of my favourite ‘self-help’ books focus on the now. Now is the Time by Sister Stan and The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. The essence of both is that all we ever have is now, this present moment. And what we do with the here and now defines the quality of our existence. […]
My brother-in-law put fellow Scot Gerry Cinnamon on my radar before Christmas. His one-man band music is so catchy (he should be on the Inspo 2020 soundtrack really). I saw a live show of his on Youtube last week. His one song Discoland caught the eye (in an ideal world he’d drop the unneeded reference […]
Inspo is about inspiring people. Last week’s post was about inspiring you to create your own ‘20/20 Vision’. At this time of year, there is a lot of inspiration being offered to you. You’re probably reading words and phrases like ‘new you’, ‘transformation’, ‘big change’ etc. with regularity. Today’s post is an attempt to inspire […]
Do you ever wonder what your ideal career path looks like? There’s clues to the answer in your own home. The home is made by parents, the place where they provide for their kids. The goal of parents is to do everything to give their kids the best possible upbringing. My folks worked incredibly hard […]
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” George Eliot I believe that learning to thrive is learning to explore; both by ourselves and with others. I like to look at thriving through three lenses: the lens of you, the lens of others and the context lens. I believe that we can […]
Why being lost in thought is not lost time…. Much of the writing around work and achievement comes with inbuilt assumptions about the kind of work that we value. In particular, it’s assumed that the work produces some form of measurable output – and the more of it the better. So, we read about how […]