Last week I talked about why mindfulness is so important in the workplace. Well, talk is cheap (and easy!), it's doing it that can be a challenge. Particularly when you...
My visit to the Centre for Hope
Last month, on a holiday to the USA, we were fortunate to visit the Centre for Hope. It was a surprisingly wonderful, inspiring visit. I wasn't expecting that because...
Mindfulness: 3 key reasons why you need it at work.
Check any social media platform on a Friday and inevitably there will be people posting about two days of "me time". I've come to realise that we need to grab that time...
Worrying about perfrection…
In my early twenties I attended a training course to improve my skills working as a corporate trainer. I loved my job. I enjoyed working with people, and presenting to...
Can’t help myself…bad habits!
Oh I wish these blogs had an audio option! You'd hear this title in a Billy Fields swagger. I loved that song back in the 80's, and now, as January comes to a close I...
I have a human barometer.
I'm very lucky. Some would say, however, I'm very unlucky. One of my closest friends lives in Sweden, far far away. We only get to share a cuppa together once a year or...
I looked at over 2 million people before I found myself.
It's lovely to be back from our summer holiday. I mean that in more ways than one. It's simply terrific to be home and back at my desk. We were grateful to have spent a...
Celebrating a good clause…
It has been a frantic week this week...I'm heading off on a Christmas holiday with my family, and for the first time ever we'll be experiencing a white Christmas...
the New days of the Old school yard…
There's one thing I would have in common with most school aged parents this week - attendance at an end of year school assembly. There are five children in total in our...
A rose by any other name?
I understand that to truly embrace life, I have to first embrace myself. I have to love myself. But how do you love yourself if you don't fully understand who you are?...
I’m not doing this alone…
At this time of the year we have an advent calendar strung up in our entrance hall. Each little bag holds something special inside, a yummy chocolate, a quote to think...
Quitting is fine, but what if you don’t want to?
We often joked that the first word our boys learnt in life was the word 'no'. As toddlers, they were in to everything! This simple little word morphs into so much more...