You zag when others zig
You’re not just one thing. Not only a professional, or only a partner, or only a parent. Not only someone who works, or someone who runs, or someone who paints in their free time.
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Confidence: being comfortable with the uncomfortable
Confidence is being able to be with insecurity. Confidence doesn’t mean being perfect, it means being okay with imperfection.
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The inner critic is wrong
Byron Katie has a saying that I love : “Reality is always kinder than the stories we tell about it.” Never is this truer than when it comes to our own critical thoughts about ourselves.
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I choose to choose humanity and fight the dark forces
What do we most need when we feel insecure and hopeless? Confidence and trust. And when is it most difficult to have them? When we are insecure and hopeless.
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Growth results from challenging
Leaders and organisations need more “no people” not more “yes people”.
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How to overcome resistance to selling?
Selling is often seen as the act of forcing something undesirable onto someone who’s not desiring it. No wonder so many of us have so much resistance to it.
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Four ways to use a secret power you’ve forgotten you have
Smiling sends a powerful message not just to other people, but to our own brain. When we smile, our brain releases neuropeptides, including dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins, which can improve our mood and reduce stress.
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The power of keeping your word
One of the things most damaging to confidence is breaking our commitment. Whether we’ve given our word to others or ourselves, we are out of integrity when we go back on it, and we know that we are. We know that we’ve just lied to ourselves, and it doesn’t feel good. Not upholding our commitments impacts our confidence negatively often in ways we don’t fully appreciate.
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We can’t find safety in the domain that’s not creating its lack
One of the “lessons” so many of us learn as children is that we are not safe. My own formative introduction to that was through being locked out one evening. I’d been to visit the neighbours and I got home a few minutes later than I was supposed to.
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Making space for what is
So often when we navigate periods of deep change, grief or loss, we are so focused on getting to the other side that we forget the aspect of ourselves that’s grieving. The fear and pain that are an intrinsic part of transitions are so uncomfortable to be with
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