The only thing that is certain in this life is uncertainty. Not knowing where you stand or what’s going to happen next or what will become of us is a really horrible feeling. Feeling all at sea and untethered makes…
There’s a great quote from Desmond Tutu about how we need to stop pulling people out of the river and how we need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in. Over the last few weeks, it has…
After a year’s gap, Rachel and I finally went on our annual retreat to the Isles of Scilly last week and it was a truly awesome trip. We saw all the weather – got soaked in the rain, bathed in…
We talk about setting goals a LOT. It’s a good thing – it gives us something to aim for, a target for our efforts, motivation to achieve it. The danger is that that is all we do. Talk about it.…
Sabine Schmitz was a woman who embodied the very essence of operating at 80% Awesome. She was a racing driver of the highest calibre, held in great respect by drivers, owners, fans and public. You may be aware of her…
I have a complex, nay, a compulsion, to be superwoman. There, I said it. I’ve known this for some time and people tell me frequently which simply endorses my drive to be that superwoman creature. There are many times when…
Some people seem to spend their lives lurching from one crisis to another where something is always happening “to” them. Some people seem to glide calmly through life without crisis featuring in their day to day landscape. Given that the…
The announcements on Monday about coming out of lockdown are heartening. It feels like there is a light at the end of the tunnel, that we have hope of returning to social activity, and that we can begin what will…
It’s strange this lockdown thing. This time feels much harder to cope with, more serious, more impactful. Less motivation, less sunshine, less confidence both in myself and the world around me. This means that I am prone to overreact, to…
Do you ever look at that person and think “Blimey, they have got their shit together; they’re on top of everything; they know exactly what they are doing”? Well the reality is that it’s a myth. It’s a show. Nobody…