Insight I’ve said “you are enough” to other people more times than I can count, I even included it as my first affirmation in my book Confidence Booster, Affirmations to Reframe Your Mindset and Boost Confidence. I meant it every time I said it and wrote it. I can see it in others clearly, and know it is a truth. But believing it about myself, in a way that sticks, well, that is a different conversation. So I spent time learning why and so far, I came across two reasons. I will discuss one...
10 days ago • 1 min read
Insight For years I believed courage was something I needed to dig for. The deeper I went, the more I’d find. So, when change arrived and shook something loose inside me, I kept digging, head down, inward, searching. I didn’t realise that all that digging was actually my most convincing excuse to stay still. I was in the uncertainty gap. No longer who I was, not yet who I am becoming, and in that in between space, I couldn’t articulate much. The words sat at the tip of my tongue and wouldn’t...
17 days ago • 1 min read
Insight There is a tiredness from change that I feel is not talked about much at all. The kind that comes from still showing up for your team, your clients, your family, lets face it, all the people who need the version of you that feels most like yourself. Yet here you are in change. A change that is currently transforming who you are becoming, so their ask and your desire to show up as yourself becomes a little harder. Especially when you are in what I call the uncertainty gap where you are...
24 days ago • 3 min read
Insight Ever had a moment when you say to yourself, “I know how to do this. Why didn’t I do it?” You are here and you already know and had some great wins communicating well. Evidence of it includes jobs you landed, sales you achieved, relationships you gained and maintained. Yet there are times, and I used to experience this too, when you don’t execute what you know how you expected. Maybe it’s because you are speaking in a new role, or in front of a new group. Maybe it's because there is a...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Insight I love the act of collaboration, vibing with the people around you, even the ones you don’t really like. It is a powerful place to be in and when done well, I feel like I could move mountains, my energy becomes bountiful, and I learn so much. But getting there is a path I mostly dread because it takes a lot of communication effort for everyone to get on the same page. To have everyone aligned and agreeing to move together in a harmony that only collaboration can bring, well that is an...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Insight Last weekend, Australia commemorated ANZAC Day. I was reflecting on the word sacrifice and became quite curious about how the word shows up in any sort of self-development or personal growth. If you want to achieve any fitness or health goal, I commonly hear you need to sacrifice something to gain something else. Same with personal development, I commonly hear the word sacrifice of parts of ourselves or lifestyle that’s deemed no longer needed for you to receive something else. Yet...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Insight I was learning the psychological perspective on decision making when I realised that for many people, we treat decision making like we do change. We hold on. I know it doesn’t make much sense, especially as a top line review seeking its meaning. Both change and a decision means something changes so how can we hold on? It's like going on a holiday and packing that extra jumper, pair of jeans, pair of shoes, just in case. Things deep down we know we don’t need, but because we don’t know...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
Insight Just when you think you not only know, but accept who you are, and are prepared to show up and speak up in that identity, change comes in. This change either external or within, shifts your perspectives, values, beliefs, paradigms, and anything else that shapes your identity. You know speaking authentically is how you can easily connect with what you are saying, how you are saying it, so that who you are speaking with connects with you. Yet how the bleep are we supposed to do this,...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Insight: Spent the weekend studying different perspectives of hundreds of historic speeches that shaped our modern world. Many of these speeches created a major shift with a large group of people that goes beyond their current circumstances and generation they originally delivered their speech in. With this depth of study, you notice commonalities amongst the different points of views that to me, highlight the power of voice, especially when speaking through fear. One that I will share here...
2 months ago • 2 min read
