What a strange title for a blog! I went on holiday to Parga, on the Greek mainland, hoping to restore my work life balance and encountered sacrifice on an epic scale. This isn’t the stuff of relaxing holidays, is it? Nevertheless, the sacrifice I discovered in the tale of the women of Souli, was compelling [...]
Accountability -now there’s a word that sounds onerous, weighty and is feared and revered equally. It’s usually linked with organisational line management relationships or in religion, to the day of judgement, when facing our maker we are supposed to account for our sins and a judgement is made accordingly – eternal happiness or eternal fire [...]
Do you sometimes feel that it’s just you out there, a team of one trying hard to achieve all you wish to do, and oh, if only you could get a little help? Sometimes we get so stressed that we don’t see the support we’re actually getting from those who are already part of our [...]
It’s a rare thing to come across Paula Hemmings, a British photographer who happens to be a black woman. According to stereotypes, black British women don’t do photography. And that’s a function of stereotypes; they iron out complexity by simplifying yet distorting our expectations of certain groups, so that when we meet someone who defies [...]
Are you striving for something you really, really want – promotion, your own business, weight loss, quitting smoking? How’s it going? Are you dancing around with joy at your progress, your glittering prize clearly in sight? Or are you feeling dejected and as worn out as a pair of holey tights, stressed by the effort, [...]
It’s a joy living in London and no, not everyone would agree. Love it or hate it, you can’t deny the wealth of history the city offers. Not only does it have the power to thrill but it has the power to surprise too. One thing that often leads to surprises are the blue plaques [...]
What do you think when you see a panel of 14 male ‘Inspiring Achievers’ speaking at the 2011 ‘National Achievers Congress‘? Are you keen to learn more? Do you leave the page, bored? Or do you notice the glaring gap? Who’s been made redundant here? I noticed. And I mind! Not a woman in sight! [...]
When you meet women with fascinating lives that they seem to have fallen into rather than crafted how do you explain it? Born under a lucky star? Always being in the right place at the right time? To Alexandra Agboke, life coach and colour coach, the winning pathway she has travelled until now is due [...]
Being interviewed recently by Michelle Rumney, from ‘Room on the Edge‘, for my ‘Success Story’, was a fascinating experience in responding to powerful questions from a skilful questioner. The process reminded me of how effective life coaching, almost uniquely, is fed and watered by questions. Powerful questions are part of the foundation of life coaching [...]
What do you think ‘colour coaching’ means? A multi-coloured bus speeding up the motorway? A one-to-one on the delights of the rainbow? Or coaching on your skin colour? Well, it’s none of these. Colour coaching is simply a way of assessing you for your best colours – those that emphasise the beauty in your appearance, [...]