Career cushioning is the latest buzz term following the ‘Great Resignation’ and ‘Quiet Quitting’ and essentially it means creating a safety net around your career no matter your current situation. ‘Career cushioning’… it makes me think of having a trampoline that you can fall onto and bounce back up from – often higher than the …
‘If a plant were wilting we wouldn’t diagnose it with “wilting-plant-syndrome” – we would change its conditions.’ I love this quote from Psychologist Sanah Ahsan in a recent Guardian article. Ahsan uses this plant analogy to compare how we, as humans, are expected to accept whatever conditions we’re dealing with and just carry on. For …
Keep Calm [Don’t] Carry On, Change the Conditions Read More »
Most of us do things by habit, from the time we wake until when we go to sleep, our days are full of habitual behaviours. We can choose to create new habits whenever we want to, like getting up every morning at 5.30am and having an ice bath, but making a new habit stick is …
In 2017, the cost of loneliness to UK employers was estimated at £2.5bn every year. I can’t imagine what that figure has escalated to over the past 18 months. Given the overwhelming evidence that the global pandemic has increased levels of loneliness, with 25% of adults in the UK reporting feelings of loneliness in 2020, …
Overwhelm. Even writing the word makes me feel overwhelmed. Overwhelm is the sense that we have too much going on and we’re a little bit out of control. It’s when we have multiple pressure points, often landing at the same time. The end result… Stress! Many of us suffer with overwhelm from time to time, …
Overwhelm and Stress, what if there was another way? Read More »
With so much job uncertainty and talk of redundancies what are you doing to take charge of your own career strategy?
My 5-year-old is just learning the rules of card game Uno and it’s exposed a flaw in his behaviour; one that even adults suffer from and something that is crucial for us to control to be successful. I already play Uno with my 9-year-old. It’s a game that comes with us on almost every holiday …
For many of us we don’t always recognise stress or the triggers that take us from our level-headed selves to a somewhat cranky individual – to put it politely. It’s certainly true that stress manifests in different ways for each of us and it’s highly likely that we won’t even recognise it until we’re at …
‘One day I will be found out as a fraud’. So many of us experience imposter syndrome no matter where we sit in an organisation, it can take over our thoughts and cause significant anxiety. Here are some thoughts on how to quieten that imposter and reach your potential.
Week 1 of lockdown. Tick. If you’re like me, it feels very disorienting to be at home and not be able to go about your daily life freely. There have been several meltdowns. And not just from the kids! I have to admit, I have been anxious about the uncertainty. It feels like everyone has …
WEEK 1 LOCKDOWN LESSONS: Are yours the same as mine? Read More »
