Released on February 21th, 2020
There are some conversations that change your life.
One of mine happened while I was on a training course in 1999.
At the time, I was still working as a project manager, but I was ‘in transition’. I had a dream of becoming a coach, trainer and speaker, but it seemed a long way off.
One of the things almost everyone runs into sooner or later is feelings of ‘self-doubt’, often taking the form of a kind of ‘who am I to do this / say this etc’.
It often comes up shortly after someone gets fresh inspiration about a direction they’d like to move in or something they’d love to create.
Released on 24th January 2020
Question: Is it always wrong to give people advice?
(Or ‘the promise that’s like crack cocaine to our insecurities’)
I just learned a new word (with thanks to Justin Owings)…
“Verschlimmbesserung” – a noun, German – for when an attempted improvement ends up making things worse.
Released on 17th January 2020
One of the biggest areas of confusion I see when people start exploring principles-based coaching is the area of feelings.
Released on 03rd January 2020
Every year, I go through a simple process to ‘close’ the year gone by and to embrace the new year. This year I thought it might be fun to do it for the whole decade, but if that seems a bit much, you can just do this for the year.
Released on October 4th, 2019
I’ve decided to re-release an interview I did last year, where we’re going to be answering this question about subtractive psychology: are formless principles too ‘woo-woo’ for a corporate lawyer?
Here’s the back story.
Released on September 27th, 2019
Have you ever said, “I know it’s just my thinking, but…”?
This week’s FSOC is what I point people to when they say that, or when they ask me, “What the difference is between thoughts, thinking and the *principle* of Thought?”
Released on Septmeber 20th, 2019
This week’s FSOC is a replay of one of my most popular articles where we look at the essence of transformation.
Released on September 6th, 2020
A few weeks ago I did a set of coaching demos on a Zoom session joined by an audience of around 80 people. One of the demos was a very brief session with a client called Mary who got turned around in under 7 minutes. Mary was struggling with what she described as ‘impostor syndrome’.
Released on August 30th, 2019
This week’s article is around the whole domain of ‘career transition’. Huge numbers of people want to transition from their current work to something more fulfilling and on-purpose. But far fewer people have a clear sense of exactly how they’re going to make that move, and what it’s going to look like. What follows is a summary of the main approaches I’ve identified, but if you want a more in-depth look at them, here’s a link to a 12-minute video I made describing the 5 career transition strategies.