I know it’s hotter than ever right now, but try, if you can, to think back to the winter.  Six months ago you may have been sitting at your desk, or…

I recently enjoyed a couple of hours with a local photographer, a gift from my Step-mum to share with my Dad. We headed up the Northumberland coast t…

My friend Robert, who lives in Lincolnshire and with whom I correspond via email, is a keen vegetable gardener in his small back garden. Amongst all…

‘The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.’ Eleano…

If talking hypothetically about making a big decision summons a sense of anxiety for you, then please know that you are not alone. Although some peop…

What's your childhood experience of taking criticism? Think back - do any of these sound like situations you were criticised in? Shouted at for b…

Many of the issues that clients bring to me under the umbrella of ‘leadership’ or ‘career’ challenges are not really so much career-related issues or…

Are you tired of the same problems coming back in your life? Obstacles you though you’d dealt with haunting you again? Do you find yourself making th…

Traditionally, when there are difficult decisions to be made - whether focusing on your career, business or life in general - the recommended approac…

"What got us here won't get us through the next stretch of the journey." So said leading author, Marshall Goldsmith, a conclusion that has never bee…

Confidence and assertiveness, influence and fulfilment arise from being your best self! The person you strive to be every day - learning, growing, im…

You can picture the scene; you made yourself a promise that you wouldn’t do/say that again. And yet, there it is again, that behaviour or thought pat…