Fear. Why does it evoke such feelings and keep us rooted to the spot in situations when we know that we should do something, yet we don’t because we convince ourselves that we can’t? I know fear is a big thing for me. It has held me back many times,
I am sure there are times when you get to a point where your enthusiasm is lower, your energy is sub-optimal, and focus and concentration require greater and greater effort to stay at normal levels. This is the point at which you know that you need to take a break,
If you were to take the word initiative and ponder on what it means to you as a trait in yourself and in others and how important you consider it to be in relation to whatever you have created or achieved in your life, how high would you rate it?
I have been doing an online course recently called Inspiring Leadership Through Emotional Intelligence. As part of the homework, participants were asked to talk about their own experience of good and bad leaders, and what in our opinion made great leaders. This was my submission which received some good feedback,
I listen to a lot of podcasts on all kinds of different topics and invariably, one of the stock questions asked is, “What advice would you give to your 18-year-old self?” I know where the question comes from but to be honest, I am not sure that I would have
I had a great conversation with a friend recently over a coffee, where we chatted about some issues that were holding his business back. When we got down to discussing strategies that he could employ to address the matters in hand, he uttered the words that I have heard a
From time to time, you come across a piece of advice that really impacts on one’s thinking and has the potential to shift the outlook of anyone who is challenged by self-doubt, when faced with a difficult situation or an exciting opportunity. Over the past week I have been listening
I saw an interesting quote from Tony Robbins recently. He said, “Make a decision today that can immediately change or improve the quality of your life.” It reminded me of some recent conversations in which the people concerned felt stuck or trapped in difficult situations either in their businesses or
I recently found an old photograph from 2000 of me with my then business partner, from the Sunday Business Post. Apart from the fact that I was about 25 lbs lighter and the grey that has now fully engulfed my head was only starting to show in, it reminded me
There are times in our lives when we wish that we could start it all again – the business, the project, the year, the deal, the relationship, the habit (perhaps not), or even the career. When you reach that stage, it is most likely down to exhaustion, frustration, the sense