Category: clarity

How having a work uniform can make you a better leader

Research shows that making just one decision, reduces the glucose (or blood sugar) available in the brain to make the next decision. The brain doesn’t differentiate between how important the decision is – just that you’re depleting the supply of available energy. This means that by the time we have got to the point in our working day where we actually need to make an important decision, we’ve already used up some portion of our daily allocation.

Having one of “those”conversations

Of course, these are often the conversations that we put off because we think they will be difficult, awkward or uncomfortable. And so things don’t get said when they need to be said. Feelings fester. Positions become entrenched. What was a smaller issue becomes bigger. What was fixable becomes less so.

The Good Life Project – how does it work?

The very simple premise is that we all need three buckets to live a joyful, meaningful and satisfied life.
The buckets are vitality, connection and contribution. And from time to time, it is possible that the buckets evaporate their contents, or develop a leak. Or that they were never full in the first place.

Which hat are you wearing and how do you choose to show up?

But, if you can set aside 15 minutes now today to do the first part, and then 15 minutes later in the week, and then 15 minutes on the weekend; I guarantee you’ll find out some things about your life that will be illuminating and might set you on the path to less confusion, more clarity and more joy!

What does “Lean In” look like to you?

I am not discounting that this stuff can be difficult, but I think we make it more difficult that it needs to be. Just start. Anywhere. Movement begets movement. Progress begets progress. Growth begets growth.

But I have no choice in the matter

Long time readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of Seth Godin. He writes simply but powerfully about a range

What do you do when you just don’t know what to do?

It seems like almost every part of our lives has the capacity to bring up issues or questions or problems that are seemingly unresolvable.

How small arguments become big wars and what happens then

If there was one skill that I wish I could bestow on the general population, it would be to be able to speak one’s mind

2015 – the year that was

The thing I like about this time of year, aside from the Christmas traditions and spirit, is that it presses “pause” and then “reset” on

What’s our purpose?

This week I worked with a new client on crafting their “elevator” speech; the one liner that sums up the essense of who/what their organisation

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