Perspectives
Finding Your Inner Resolve
When faced with unexpected obstacles, how do you resolve them? This is a question I have been pondering these past few weeks, as a seemingly never ending number of obstacles have presented themselves for me to address, handle or overcome. It really has tested my inner resolve! I have found that the resultant outcomes of…
Read MoreReshaping Leadership For ‘These Times’
A Different Filter Whilst other media across the globe have acknowledged the Prime Minister for how she has so admirably handled the massacre in Christchurch, Jacinda Ardern’s response is representative of a key leadership quality – ‘humility’. Ardern has downplayed her own role in the nation’s grieving and in an interview, stated: “I don’t think…
Read MoreThe Gift – Ideal vs Reality
“Personal Development is not a race to the finish line. It is the journey of our lives—the way we come to see and re-see ourselves and the world around us.” It is how we live the journey of our lives that colours our response to many situations and events. Some we value and appreciate, and…
Read MoreKnowing What Is Important
The Christmas and New Year holidays are over. 2019 is underway. In the Asia Pacific region and indeed globally, others are currently celebrating the Lunar New Year – a time of ‘reconnecting’ with family and friends, completing the old year of the Mountain Dog, and welcoming in the year of the ‘Monastic’ Pig! The New…
Read MoreConnection to Nature
Stop, Step off, Reflect, Reconnect and Reset. End of Year Festivities, Christmas and New Year holidays and the ‘long’ summer holidays for those of us in the southern hemisphere are upon us. It is a time of ‘busy-ness’ before the ‘stop’, unwind and then the rewind. Take a moment to read each of these words.…
Read MoreThe Courage to “Be”
Sometimes it takes a trigger to make us pivot Last month, The Invictus Games were held “Down Under” for the first time – in Sydney. The Games are the brainchild of Prince Harry, or “Harry”, as he is more familiarly known – fpr the Invictus generation, and were initiated with the help of some key…
Read MoreDon’t walk (on) the plank – walk on the string
The times we are living in are exquisite. They are challenging. They are risky. They demand daring, boldness, authenticity, honesty, and truth. A leader said this to one of his direct reports during a 3-way conversation we were having as part of the completion of a six-month coaching engagement. We were discussing the next steps…
Read MoreEMBEDDING NEW PATTERNS – how do you get from inclination to action?
In last month’s post I spoke of patterns which, as we know, are so easy to accumulate and often so difficult to remove. So how do we embed NEW patterns? It is important to identify the three parts of the patterns: 1) right actions 2) right intentions 3) right thoughts Managing the ‘self-talk’ is often…
Read MorePatterns and how we can identify and manage them
Patterns are so easy to accumulate and often so difficult to eliminate. We frequently get caught in stories, many times not our own, but if we are not diligent they can become our own – taking them on and absorbing them unconsciously. Patterns are everywhere we look: – in the environment that surrounds us –…
Read MoreAre you ready to Pivot?
‘In times of great change, the learners will inherit the Earth while those attached to old certainties will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.’ Eric Hoffer. Being ready to ‘pivot’ requires a different mindset, a different resolve even. It is a choice between old and new story. As…
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