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Stepping on Toes

Sometimes it’s as crazy to do nothing as it is do something. Either way, avoiding crazy is a great strategy for avoiding life. Many of my most fun memories have me roar in laughter at the crazy times.
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The Bullshit of Intuition

What we want in life often shows up without looking anything like we thought it would, and might show up after a series of clues that we’ve refused to embrace. Then, the nudges from the universe get stronger, sometimes kicking our butts big time until we really see what’s on offer, even putting us in places we’d never thought to go until we see what already is here.
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Walking to Avoid

You’re walking downtown, earphones in, podcast or music in full swing, and you’re running a little late. Across the other side of the street you see someone you know. But it’s not someone you particularly like or enjoy spending time with. You’re just too different in how you see the world, you just don’t have any kind of deep connection with them. So you pretend you’ve not seen them, keep your eyes straight ahead and carry on walking.
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Being You

Whenever anyone tells you “You need to be more this way…” they are always directing you away from your own wisdom and your true self. Be it in a mastermind, a sisterhood circle, a one-on-one coaching relationship, prescription only ever takes you away from your own inner guidance, wisdom and love.
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Love Me, Love You

Self-love is never about disregarding everyone or someone else. The act of loving yourself can never include having no regard for another’s feelings as a result of your actions.
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Pacman

Do you remember Pacman? That little creature that you directed around the screen to collect pills? Of course, those pills weren't real, they were just coloured dots on the screen. And then, of course, (spoiler alert!) Pacman wasn’t real either.
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A New Chance

Don’t give second chances. They’re so loaded with the past.

Not even another chance. That carries, too, the weight of previous chances past and missed.
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All Flaws Are Imagined

The heart need never forgive, since it never condemns.
There are no flaws to forgive.
All of your humanness is an expression of you
Yet your expression is not you
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Unfiltered

“What’s it like to be you when you’re not trying to be somebody?”

One of my favourite questions.
And that ‘somebody’ is often the image we have created of ourselves; a belief we need to behave in a certain way in certain circumstances.
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Living an Honest Life

I wake this morning wondering what it might be like to really live an honest life. That’s not to say I deliberately lie, but in noticing discrepancies in stories others tell I also notice my own often unconscious fiction.

There’s so much of this around.
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You Can't Postpone Now

On my walk yesterday, as I passed a cafe, I stopped and paused to watch from a distance, two children, I guess about aged 5 or so, with, presumably, their father, eating ice cream.

They were captivated by it.
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Between Never & Always

When I tell myself I never do something I am always imposing a limit on myself. Just as I am when I tell myself ‘always.’

Similarly, when I tell myself something always happens or never happens in life, I am repeating a limiting mantra of my belief about how life seems to me.
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Surrendering to Change

How often do we strive for some kind of stability in life?

I’ll bet the top two desires of stability are a stable relationship and a stable job or income.
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Sometimes

Sometimes I want to feel the summer breeze on my cheeks and ears, taste the jasmine in the air, feel fresh cool grass under the soles of my feet, and meditate under a tree with the warm sun on my face.
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My Promise

“I promise to only speak to the person I see. That might not be the person you think I should see.”

I share this promise the first time I have a conversation with someone. It’s often not until much later that they really get what I mean.
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You Are an Emotional Bakery

I’ll put my hat into the ring and say I don’t believe we carry any emotions, or need to release them like some pent-up animal that needs to be set free into the wild.
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The Illusion of Complexity

I'm realising the more I understand and am in touch with love, the less I like complexities. I'm tempted to say the less well I deal with complexities, but that's not true. A big part of coaching is exploring through perceived complexities to discover simple truths. Often the truth of love. I’m pretty good at that.
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We’re Never Not Creating

Most of us interested in human behaviour or psychology will have come across the concept that we create our own reality. Delving a little deeper into this we can see that whatever is going on in the physical world around us, it is indeed us that is creating our experience of that world through the principle of thought.
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Love Everyone

When my Dad said those words that would play on my mind for many years, “You are no son of mine,” click, hang up… those words and the subsequent multiple refusals to talk to me, I used those to feel so damn abandoned and so angry. Not just with him. With my wife-to-be for being part of the petty argument that led to him making that stand.
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Life's Biggest Distraction - Me

My life is full of many distractions. I’m the biggest one.

There’s so much on offer that I can consider about myself, not least that very popular question in coaching circles, “Who do you need to be?”
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Ready is a Mirage

I speak to a lot of people that are not ready. Very few of us ever are. It can take some people an inordinate amount of time to ‘get ready’, a realisation I’ve had many times whilst living with a partner.
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Fonz's Watermelon

I read somewhere that when someone jumps off a building, if it’s high enough, their body disintegrates as it hits the ground in much the same way as if it were a watermelon.
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There's No Script for Love

So much of what we see in the personal development arena concentrates solely at the level of behaviour, and in some quarters scripting that behaviour to give a measured response in a given situation. One area where this is rife is in relationship work, where scripts are often offered on how you should talk to your partner to help him or her understand what you want or help you connect deeply.
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How selfish of me to not ask for help…

When I choose to not ask for help I am identifying with my own self-image of separation.

The sole function of the ego is to maintain an identity of a separate self, and hence ego sees asking for help as failure to maintain that separateness. The ego simply sees asking for help as failure…
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Love is the Energy of Creation

Me: “Have you ever felt I wanted you to change?"
Client: “Nopes, not in any way, shape or form. No, no, absolutely not! Not ever!"
Me: “And yet you have…"
Client: “Yes! But you haven’t been concerned about any outcome."
Me: “I love you irrespective of anything that happens in our conversations. Irrespective of any outcome. Irrespective of anything."
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I am a Lover

In 2014, at my first Robert Holden coaching workshop in San Diego, Robert invited us all to rewrite a new version of our business card, and to really consider what it was we did, outside of all the usual labels and ways of describing jobs, roles and careers. We were handed blank business cards onto which to write our new job title, and these were then all put into his infamous hat.
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The Irrelevance of Fear

If only you knew how irrelevant fear could be...

We’re all motivated by many different things, yet similar in our natural desire to move towards pleasure or avoid pain. In this profession fear is often talked about as a motivator, a compass, a sign.
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Mastering the Illusion

I talk with many people who understand the thought-feeling nature of the human experience, many of whom are very quick to dismiss much of their feelings because they see the transient nature of thought and therefore understand that whatever they may be feeling now will pass, just as all thoughts pass when we allow them. They get it! They see that we always return to our natural state of love and wellbeing if we allow it.
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Answering the Call for Love

If we consider all behaviours as either an expression of love or a call for love, for all acts of fear our invitation is always ‘How will we answer the call for love?’
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For Paris

I thought I had no words. I guess personally and individually, I didn't. I listened to love. This is what I heard:
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Giggle More

Personally I’m not drawn to coaches and other people who never look like they are actually happy. I’m not drawn to what looks like a constant struggle, a constant battle, a constant challenge for improvement. Video after video talking about overcoming, pushing through, do, do do. I’m not drawn to the straight faces and the seriousness of it all. I often feel exhausted just watching them.
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Your Bold Ego

Being bold, just like having confidence, is a red herring! There’s a plethora of stories that proliferate the illusion that these are necessary attributes for success, and many of these stories are extremely compelling. Almost every day I see something from a fellow coach or someone in the personal development profession suggesting ways we should and could become more bold, more courageous, more confident.
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Broken Hearts

What if your heart can not be broken? What if your heart is an immutable force of love that has no judgment, only acceptance?

If this is true, something else must be going on in those times when we feel ‘heartbroken.’
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