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Stop Telling Yourself Old Stories
Welcome to another Wednesday Wisdom, Friend. Every week, I share with you what I'm thinking about life, work, and leadership. This week we're talking...
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Find your purpose: upgrade your inner google
GET YOUR FREE PLAY THE LONG GAME PACK Get perspective It feels like our experiences are factual because they’re tangible. If you can see, smell, hear...
End like you mean to continue
Welcome to another Wednesday Wisdom. Every week, I share with you what I'm thinking about life, work, and leadership. This week we're talking about...
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Obsessions: the perfect way to avoid things
I'm kind of intense, once I get *into* something. This time last year, I got into houseplants. It started with 6, and just a few weeks later, I had...
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The 5 most important (untaught) leadership skills
The world of work is different As the nature of work changes, new technology is introduced, and social norms evolve, we need different skills from...
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Are you flexible?
Do you know that saying that courage isn't an absence of fear; it's feeling fear and doing it anyway? I had a dose of that this week. A couple of...
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Are you flexible?
You know that saying that courage isn't an absence of fear, it's feeling fear and doing it anyway? I had a dose of that this week. I had a couple of...
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Treat yourself how you treat others
FREE GET YOUR SH*T TOGETHER WORKBOOK One of the nicest things about lockdown was the feeling that you could relax a little. Be yourself. Let a few...
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How to Be Kinder: A Learner's Perspective
I'm not always a very kind person. Not because I'm not good or generous, or because I don't care about others, but because my natural style is pretty...
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Do, then decide
What are you tangled up in knots about right now? I bet you've got a decision weighing on you. Whether it's a job offer, a location change, a...
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Could covid-19 change relationships forever?
When I receive grateful emails and messages from readers and fans, I sometimes feel uneasy. I received one such email last week, which went as far as...
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Could COVID-19 change relationships forever?
When I receive grateful emails and messages from readers and fans, I sometimes feel uneasy. I received one such email last week, which went as far as...
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Embrace meh: 6 surprising benefits of feeling like shit
Feeling like sh*t, or 'FLS' is one of the most common elements of the human experience. I dare you to find someone who’s got through a week without...
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Embrace meh: 6 surprising benefits of feeling like shit
Feeling like sh*t, or 'FLS', is one of the most common elements of the human experience. I dare you to find someone who’s got through a week without...
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Leading through change: the power of language
“Words create worlds” - JONATHAN FRANZEN Two years ago, I conducted a personal experiment after reading James Clear's Atomic Habits. To be more...
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Intangible assets: create business value that lasts
I was listening to the radio this morning when a soundbite caught my attention - a business expert talking about "intangible assets." I've been using...
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8 ways to kill stress for good
We’ve been on a stress rollercoaster the last couple of years, haven’t we? We had all that lovely acute stress in COVID, where we smashed into panic...
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Why are you like this?: How strengths overused become weaknesses
Why am I like this?!" is a bit of a catchphrase in my house. Usually, I’m bemoaning something I’ve stuffed up. Either I’ve messed up my admin, worked...
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Why are you like this? Tricky questions that need asking
"Why am I like this?!" is a bit of a catchphrase in my house. Usually, I’m bemoaning something I’ve stuffed up. Either I’ve messed up my admin,...
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Five skills for leading strategic conversations
Leadership used to be a pretty straightforward affair. The boss knew all the things and told all the people who worked for them what to do.
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How to identify, set, and defend your boundaries
It's hard to set boundaries. We don't want to let people down or look bad. But when we refuse to draw a line in the sand about what we will and won't...
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Angry people
I woke up on Sunday morning full of Christmas spirit. Oh wait, no, I didn't. I woke up on Sunday morning full of indignation, which I channelled into...
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Get angry, it's great
I woke up on Sunday morning full of Christmas spirit. Oh wait, no, I didn't. I woke up on Sunday morning full of indignation, which I channelled into...