Success and Leadership Coaching for Business Leaders
Does this sound familiar? You’ve got an important task to complete – a report; assignment; a project to work on (you can fill in your own blank here) and even though you really need to do it; and even though your deadline is inching ever closer; instead of starting you do something else? I’m willing […]
This week I’m answering the question: ‘Hi Barbara – Can you give me some tips on how to say no without feeling guilty. The problem is that I’m a people pleaser, and I feel like it’s engrained in me to help, but this leads to me taking too much on, and feeling overwhelmed. This is […]
Is this you? You feel like you have too much to do, and not enough time? You feel like you’re juggling far too many balls, and spinning plates desperately trying to keep everything from toppling over? You feel exhausted at the end of your work day, even though you didn’t achieve everything that you wanted […]
This week I’m answering this question: “Everything’s going great at the moment, but I always get the feeling that I’m holding myself back in some way…can you help?” This is a common question, and it really doesn’t matter where you are on your leadership journey I can pretty much guarantee that we’ve all done this […]
This week I’m answering a question about confidence… “I feel as though I my confidence has gone – any ideas how I can get it back?” The thing is that we all have lapses in confidence as we go a long. The way I visualise it is that confidence is like a big jug of […]
Although January is usually a fantastic time for setting new goals, planning for the year and creating resolutions, it can all too quickly slip back into business as usual, and if you’re not careful you end up doing exactly what you did before. To check this out – all you need to do is go […]
I’ve always had an on off relationship with getting fit…sure I understoood the benefits, but just getting up and doing it was always a struggle. Then a while back I had the realisation that unless I’m working towards an event – like a sponsored event – I have absolutely no motivation when it comes to […]
You might have read the same articles as I have, that super successful people have morning routines that go something like this…get up at 4am, meditate, do some yoga, drink a green juice and then when you’ve done all this, you can get started on your daily list. Now, as nice as all that may […]
So, this week I did something that pushed me way way out of my comfort zone. Something that to be honest I never thought I’d ever do (but actually something I’d secretly wanted to have a go at) and definitely something that taught me so much about me as a person. I performed my very […]
I’m a big fan of getting the confidence to say no more. I’ve talked about in my blog, on my podcast and even on a guest post…but this time I want to talk about the three times when you absolutely mustn’t say no…even if your whole being is tell you to do just that.
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