Choosing Hope (when times are tough)

Choosing hope; choosing happy One of my inspiring clients said "I choose happy" yesterday.  She is going to actively work on releasing past hurts and sadness, to move towards happiness.I love this.  We often think of happy, fulfilled, content, hopeful, even relaxed as states that will just happen to us if we can just fix something, or if something will stop. We are passive in the process (other than focusing on the problems, or our own shortcomings)But the reality is that we can be active in [...]

2025-01-19T16:32:33+00:0019 January 2025|Categories: Goal setting, setting intentions|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Choosing Hope (when times are tough)

Setting Intentions for 2025

In Chinese Medicine, winter is the season of the Water element.   Key themes include stillness, reflection, wisdom, determination, and paring back to the essences. It's the perfect time for setting intentions; to look deep within, and tune into an internal wisdom; to take stock of where you are and where you're heading, what your heart desires, what's true to you. BTW if you want to know more about the energy of winter and how to find this time of year [...]

2025-01-09T11:47:17+00:0020 December 2024|Categories: Goal setting, setting intentions|Tags: , , , , , |Comments Off on Setting Intentions for 2025

Creating environments that support and align with our goals

I'm a big advocate of creating environments that support and align with our goals.  I passionately believe in using the non-conscious parts of our body and brain to help us stretch for those things we want to achieve as well as our plans and intentions. And shaping the environment around us can make a huge difference. I'll share a few things we've been talking about this week, in how to shape a work environment that's conducive to your goals: [...]

2024-11-19T15:52:29+00:0019 November 2024|Categories: Confidence, Goal setting, Self confidence, Self esteem|Tags: , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Creating environments that support and align with our goals

5 Simple Steps to Work Efficiently

A recurrent theme of my coaching this week (in fact, most weeks) is how to work efficiently. Many of my clients are go-getting employees or ambitious entrepreneurs and all are super busy. And often super stressed. And if I'm honest, not operating super efficiently or effectively (mainly because of this stress). Instead, they're firefighting, juggling, and dealing with whatever's shouting the loudest. They're being pulled in many different directions and feeling overwhelmed. And they're starting to become frazzled and [...]

How to Stop Procrastinating and Get Stuff Done

Prefer to listen rather than read?  You can hear an AI-generated voiceover of this blog here: My name is Emma, and I’m a procrastinator. Or at least I’m a pretty much recovered procrastinator, and I’m happy to share with you how I did it. If you’re struggling to get your good intentions to stick, to tick things off that to-do list, and to do the things you know you’ll feel better for doing, [...]

“For God’s sake Emma, stop procrastinating and do some bl**dy work!”

These were the words semi-shouted at me by my exasperated dissertation supervisor back in 2005. The discussion had followed the usual pattern – me highlighting all my ideas and then listing all the excuses why I hadn’t done a thing! Often, these words ring in my head when I’m finding distractions or delaying tactics. They always make me smile; sadly they rarely make me do some work! And it’s just not work – sometimes it’s leisure activities that I [...]