Business Book Club: Atomic Habits

I've set myself a goal to blog about the books I read. I will extract wisdom from the best business and personal development books I've read and share it with you.

This time around, I’m reading “Atomic Habits” by James Clear

I've set myself a goal to blog about the books I read. I will extract wisdom from the best business and personal development books I've read and share it with you.This time around, I’m reading “Happiness by Design” by Paul Dolan.

In "Happiness by Design," author Paul Dolan, Professor of Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics, offers a refreshing take on achieving happiness……

With things being quieter due to people being on holiday and fewer client meetings, I had the perfect opportunity to work on my business. But here's the twist: the very quiet that offered me time also took away the stimulus I needed to be productive.

Discover the power of making a tit of yourself. Discover my breakthrough realisation and why putting ourselves in a position of certain failure can help us succeed faster.

Dive into our review of "Be a Free Range Human" by Marianne Cantwell. Discover key insights, resources, and engage in discussions about escaping the 9-5 and crafting a passion-filled life.

Many professionals hesitate to ask bold questions, fearing rejection. Yet, a young man's audacious move to email his CEO for advice resulted in swift, invaluable insights. This story highlights the potential rewards of daring to ask for what you want.

I got asked a great question by a coachee the other day.

Is it better to fully plan your business then start, or should I just get started?

How many online connections do you have and how many do you actually keep in contact with?

In the 1990s, British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, suggested that there is a limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships.

Do you find yourself walking the same routes for your fresh air every day?

Are you finding that you are walking them on autopilot?

Perhaps they are not proving to be as relaxing as they used to be because your mind starts to wander?

There is a reason for this.

Whether 2020 saw your business booming or if you heard nothing but tumbleweed, it's fair to say it was uncertain, changeable and hard to predict. In this blog, I’ll share why you should reflect on this year (even if you don't feel like it), how to extract some good from it and how to use it to prepare for an equally uncertain 2021

As a coach, I am not supposed to encourage people to aim low, but I believe there is real value to adjusting your expectations downwards sometimes. Often, it is not what we have or what we have achieved that troubles us, but what we achieved in relation to our expectations.

Imagine doing an entire day of work just to take 6 pictures. I don't mean an entire day of work to get 6 perfect pictures. I mean, taking the whole day to get 6 low-resolution pictures.

”I love that my clients tell me about their love lives”

This came from a coaching client of mine who says she doesn't like to promote herself. Yet she is never short of work due to word of mouth recommendations. So how does someone who doesn't like self-promotion get referrals? And how are her clients love lives relevant?

We can all get on a bit of a downer sometimes. That’s only natural and it happens to everyone from time to time. The important thing though, is how we explain how we explain those down times to ourselves. This is the difference between having a bad day and sliding in a bad week or month. There are three thoughts we tell ourselves about these moments that will make any bad time worse. The good news is that knowing this, and doing something about it, can lift you out of funk pretty quickly too.

Improve any relationship with just three words. No, not “I love you” but “Just Like Me”. In this blog I explain how these three words can make a huge difference.

10 tips, slightly different viewpoints on how to set resolutions or goals for the New Year.

It's the time of year when people tend to set some new year's resolutions, so I thought I'd share some top tips about how to set better new New Year's resolutions and set goals that you're more likely to stick to throughout 2019.

Have you ever got caught up in someone else’s drama and found yourself thinking “How on earth did I get sucked into this?”. If you have then chances are that you have been drawn into a drama triangle.

I got geekily excited when I saw this being used to describe the conflict between characters in the BBC drama The Cry recently, although it occurred to me that many viewers might not understand why the main character Joanna was being asked about a triangle by a psychologist. Here I explain what that triangle is all about.

Working from home means freedom from office life, but it also means being responsible for keeping yourself productive.

I’ve experimented with many different ways of tackling this problem over the years, with some successes, so here I share some techniques I’ve tried for keeping focused when working solo, along with my rating for how effective they are.

Do you really know your strengths? In the past, my work has shaped which skills I focus on and recently I've been wondering which are the things I've become skilled in because I've had to be and which are the ones I've focused on because they truly energise me. To help me find out, I completed a profiling tool called Strengthscope, and put time in for some coaching. I was really hoping it might give me some clues. Here I share what I discovered and a copy of the report I received.

It took less than 5 minutes for my tweet to be rubbished by a male associate of mine. My idea wasn’t perfect but it obviously had merit, so why point out small and irrelevant downsides when the overall suggestion was helpful? Why had this guy been so mean about it?  A few days later I listened to a fantastic podcast about the linguistic rituals men and women use in the workplace. It made me think. Perhaps my Twitter friend hadn't been so mean after all!