Something came to my attention today… I realised I missed a milestone. How did that happen???? A couple of days ago I remembered I have surpassed my first anniversary as a veteran. It was 23rd Oct 2019 that I left the confines of a military establishment for the first time in 15 years with the plan to not…
When grappling with knowing my self-worth as a woman and setting my own bar as opposed to obeying to someone else’s sliding scale of potential / success / pay, I have been led to these questions: Where do I get my sources of validation? And do they value intellect and contribution, as opposed to physical attributes…
Can you be all of who you are and still be successful? Am I able to be myself in the work I’m doing? How do I feel about that? Were questions posed in a recent weekly discussion group. First we thought it would a good start to define “success” and define “work”. Thinking about Liz Gilbert and…
I went on a call to discuss Celebration and unpack why we don’t give the smaller wins the mini-celebration they deserve. On the call we discussed how we already celebrate and there wasn’t much to discuss. We don’t do it enough. End of. I have Wine-Down Friday. A reward for getting through the week… without…
My weekly discussion group brought up some discomfort around the word “failure” – the dreaded “F” word… Failure, fail, fall, flop, foul-up, frustration, floundering, deFeat, flunk, folding, faux pas, flash in the pan, fiasco, fatal, fault, flaw, fizzle, foible, fumble, farce, faulty…. And the one you were all thinking of: Fuck-up!! Here’s a reframe one…
“As they made their way to the MedBay a sudden feeling of fear washed over her again, but more intense this time. Alphie had always worked solo until she joined the bootcamp a year ago. She’d done leadership exercises during that time and it was ok when it was Neil and the others, but this,…
I caught myself, looking at metrics. The ones that we think define our success and when we don’t also consider the context. Why do we let them define us? I was in a workshop and was tagged in a post and realised that student’s thread had over 1500 posts!!!! 1500!!!! And they are a beautifully wonderful person. We…
For the Inner Creative, Keep finding the cliff-edges of your comfort zone, and leap. Happy Hunting & Gathering. Coaching
I was on a Zoom discussing the topic Entropy, embracing the chaos that leads to work and subsequent output. There is some sciency stuff behind it and what I gleaned was – we need chaos for creativity and innovation. It’s all about the Messy Middle. And it’s how you handle it that counts. I get…
Who am I kidding, of course you do. We are human and expect things to happen in the right order at the right time for us. And life just ain’t that way. Yet, in looking the precursor to this dip, it appeared there was something in my control. I had been with people who do…
Abbie Pierce 