Elegant Aspirations

Listening is essential for avoiding conflict and making better choices, yet few have an in-depth understanding of its complexities.

DIntegrity has always been a challenge, but in today’s “post shame” atmosphere, aspirations and dignity of integrous behavior are under assault when stepping on others creates unprecedented collective suffering.

Integrity has always been a challenge, but in today’s “post shame” atmosphere, aspirations and dignity of integrous behavior are under assault when stepping on others creates unprecedented collective suffering.

With the benefit of hindsight 2023 was a year of revelation. In what was predicted to be a year when life returned to some semblance of post-pandemic normal, themes of loneliness, miscommunication, and conflict dominated.

As we come to the completion of another year, I would like to express my gratitude to you for being on this journey with me.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more.

Ideas in action can create our world. We are a species with the capacity to shape our lives creatively.

I’ve long been fascinated by what makes the difference between people who successfully pursue their passion and those who have dreams and desires and yet make little to no progress.

External influences can be this powerful because we’re hardwired, for our very survival, to seek inclusion in groups.

This trend particularly affects people under twenty-five who have a whopping seventy percent less social time than previous generations at this age.

There are billions of us living on this planet, each with our own beliefs, so why is it that today, when we are educated to know better, we can be seduced into believing our opinion is the only right?

Self-esteem is not something we pop out of the womb with. Some of us experience a childhood that confirms our worth, and some do not so much or not at all, but whatever the circumstance, there are no guaranteed self-esteem outcomes.

Can we know for sure what’s real and what’s not? Can we create our own reality as many philosophies and spiritual belief systems teach us we can?

So, what can we do to be better prepared? It is no coincidence that today’s major disruptors share a common thread

With the holiday season in full swing, it’s a perfect time to take a fresh look at New Year’s resolutions.

These can be challenging times, and I’m hearing in my coaching practice that people are feeling uninspired, even despondent. This isn’t surprising when you consider that many of the loudest voices clamoring for attention these days tend to be the least inspiring, and this can be a pretty psychic weight for us to carry.

So why is it, then, that we have this tendency to undervalue ourselves? At its most fundamental level, human evolution continually plays out in a fear-based power struggle for survival.

Today we have more labels for one another than ever: Labels devoted to defining sexuality, gender, politics, spiritual beliefs and so on. This led me to wonder why do we label one another?

The challenges of being flexible don’t just impact our bodies. Our ability to be flexible, emotionally and spiritually, also impacts our lives, and our world, in many ways.

From an early age I developed a stress response to numbers that remains with me today. Just ask my accountant!

We are living in an increasingly stressful world where change is palpable, unavoidable, and the only certainty we seem to have is uncertainty.

Every day it seems as though our world is getting increasingly more complex to navigate. Change is now our constant companion and the ground beneath our feet feels rockier and more unforgiving than ever.

In what now seems like a distant memory, a kind of hush descended on the planet when the world shut down in the face of a global pandemic. As we went quiet, the skies cleared, and the animals and birds came out of the shadows, reclaiming their kingdom.

Spring is in the air! It’s a new dawn and a new day. A time for cleaning up and clearing out and I’m not just talking about closets.

Quick to Judge?Polarization is everywhere, in the news, our homes, at work, and in schools. And this judgement of one another is exhausting, and it begs the question, what makes us so quick to judge?

As we take our first tentative steps into a New Year, hospitals are full, politicians are bickering and the weather here in the Berkshires has been doing a fine impersonation of damp and chilly England.