An interesting theme I’ve seen in therapy this week is the pattern of “doing good for others” at one’s own expense. We all do it from time to time, but many people do it all the time! It goes a bit like: “I have to go to the party because if I...
After experiencing my first root canal last week, I can still safely say that looking for a job is my least favourite thing to do. In fact one of my dearest hopes is to never have to apply for a job again. I don’t like writing applications, but even worse, I hate job...
How we think about ourselves and our experiences impacts on our personal growth. It needs some thinking about. Thinking about thinking…yes it’s a bit circular, but we can’t really get out of this catch-22, so let’s have a go. In Part Two of my...
How do you define self confidence? Is it a feeling you have sometimes (or wish you had)? How do you know when you are confident and when you aren’t? Defining self confidence is a complex thing, because well, confidence is a complex thing. We tend to simplify it into...
Not many people like to admit that sometimes, in some situations, they may be a teeny bit powerful. Power’s got a bad rap in our culture, we equate being powerful with being a monster so we shrink away from the concept completely. But this aversion does no one any...
I’m so glad this book exists. In a sea of leadership books based on shallow definitions of power, Power A User’s Guide dives refreshingly deep: author Julie Diamond KNOWS about power. Over the past few years, the discourse surrounding leadership has finally come...
I’ve been thinking about procrastination for a couple of years now (a little bit ironic that it’s taken me this long to write about it I know). I’ve come across the theory that procrastination is sometimes intuition about right timing. That if you keep putting...
Personal Power would have to be one of my most favourite topics; it’s complex, nuanced, and paradoxical; and once you see through the lens of power, life is never the same. To celebrate the new edition of my Little Book of Power, I’m sharing a neat...
