When Change Knocks at Your Door: How to Respond to Job Loss and Uncertainty A while back, I recorded a short video about retrenchment and how to navigate uncertain times. Rewatching it recently, I realised just how relevant it still is—especially now, as many industries continue to shift, restructure, [Read more…]
What Kind of Leader Do You Think You Are? And How Self-Beliefs Are Holding You Back
“You’re definitely a morning person,” someone told me recently. Funny enough, on the same day, another person insisted I was not a morning person at all. So, which is it? The truth is—it doesn’t really matter. Some days I choose to rise early; other days I love a good lie-in. [Read more…]
Work-life balance is a Myth!
Aiming to have a static balance: Everything perfectly in its place, doing things the same way every week, month or year. Everything perfectly planned out is setting yourself up to be frustrated. As soon as everything gets all straightened out, something will happen to upset the apple cart. If you have kids, the apple cart gets upset twice as often, with even more upheaval than ever before!
Sacrifice vs selfishness
“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.” ~ Napoleon Hill When you get clear on what you want, you become prepared to sacrifice other things to get what you want. Daily we make choices based on our priorities, whether we do this [Read more…]
Chooseday – The Power of a Decision
Speaking to a friend yesterday, I asked him what did he do to get his business from the $8 to the $15 million dollar turnover mark (he has since increased to over $20 million). There were two things he did but first he said that he had to make the [Read more…]
Are you dumbing yourself down?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You [Read more…]
Keep Watering Your Bamboo Tree
This remarkable tree is different from most trees in that it doesn’t grow in the usual fashion. While most trees grow steadily over a period of years, the Chinese bamboo tree doesn’t break through the ground for the first four years. Then, in the fifth year, an amazing thing happens – the tree begins to grow at an astonishing rate. In fact, in a period of just five weeks, a Chinese bamboo tree can grow to a height of 90 feet.
Thrive – from burnout to brilliance
As a leadership coach, I see leaders trying to push on when they really need a break to get refreshed. Do you ever wonder if there is more to life than what you are experiencing now? Have you felt busy, busy, busy? There seems to be some sort of status attached [Read more…]
Finally broken through
Chooseday Message – Achievements
Imagine you have a torch that doesn’t seem to be working properly. Do you simply throw it out? No, you would either recharge the batteries or put new ones in. You don’t judge how well something works when the batteries are totally flat. Recharge those batteries and then evaluate how [Read more…]
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