How to discover your ‘Why?’ – Through storytelling in forest…?
Why? why? why? …“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery Why do you do what you do? I think this is probably the most important question […]
How to communicate anything in 7 steps
A Communication Process I have found this process, which I have adapted from Marshall Goldberg’s, Non-Violient Communication – also known as the Clear Communication or Collaborative Communication model – an essential and valuable tool for resolving conflict and being able to communicate when it’s easier not to! It is a remarkable process and I urge […]
What two boxing bouts in the Army taught me about resilience
I didn’t have a very long or illustrious boxing ‘career’ – in fact it lasted just two bouts – but I remember it well. Whilst attending The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst – where the British Army trains it’s officers – we were introduced to ‘milling:’ 60 seconds of non-stop ‘controlled aggression’ against your opponent, with […]
Why breakdowns are essential to success
Often when we are in breakdown, we look at successful people and wonder how they did it. The truth is, many successful people took a long time to get there, and not without their fair share of failure along the way. Consider the following examples: Henry Ford’s early businesses failed and left him broke five […]
Why, “What about me?” is a rotten question
Photo by Liv Bruce on Unsplash Don’t we so often get so stuck, absorbed and over-interested in ourselves? What we want, what our purpose is, how we can make money, what’s my legacy? What about asking a different question? What if we were to ask, ‘What does the world want from us?” Or, “what were we put on […]
One swallow doesn’t make a summer
Photo by Mike Kotsch on Unsplash In a conversation with a client recently, I used a phrase: one swallow doesn’t make a summer. I was unsure whether or not to use it, as I thought he might experience it as demeaning, or patronising; or that I was just throwing out a quote or a cliché. That was until […]
Why Courage is the most important virtue of all
What about me? I don’t care about you. I find it incredible to think that one day I will die. When I start talks with, “ok, so we all going to die,” the audience invariably looks stunned. But it’s true, isn’t it? Yet our inner critic – what I call, “The Whining Dream Killer,” thinks […]