Ready to make it count?

So much to do, so many priorities.

What is "it"? - are you willing to put energy in?

Sometimes it doesn't take as much effort or time as we think - sometimes "it" is even a quick task or conversation with huge pay back. Many times I've spent longer worrying, dreading, procrastinating than the task or conversation took me ........   "wish I'd done that weeks, months, years ago" has gone through my mind more than once!!  I hear it too with clients.

So this week, month, coming year - are you ready to make it count?

I have a hunch you are ready to make something REALLY count in your life .... you're reading this?

Imagine your goal was achievable with more ease than you thought, how would you feel?

Lets go for it together - I'm willing and ready to give it my best shot to support - if you are!

Contact me....lets chat - Make it count!!

A Change is as good as a rest?!

This time last week I was in beautiful Devon, a very lovely long weekend away.

When is the last time you had a change - a change of environment, a change of routine?

Shift happens, change takes place when we explore, try something new, take action.....

This coming week - what small step could you take to change your routine or go to a new place, meeting room, train station, coffee shop, place of interest, walk a different way?

Be in a "new place" physically and therefore perhaps metaphorically?

Change your routine, your journey to work, experiment a little......Are you looking for change? Change something - and see what happens? How did you feel? Has it started movement to get you to where you want to go? Has it opened your mind to new possibilities?

Enjoy change, feel refreshed ( change in organisations at the moment has bad press, restructuring, stress, unknowns, jobs disappearing) .......

What can you change in your environment or routine that will fulfill you and lead to greater things? 

Tasting more of your success

You've been "in training" for such a time as this, you have experience, qualifications, skills, talents, strengths, vision, sponsors, role models, personal qualities, character, known different roles, different organisations

You have achievements, learning from things that went wrong, situations that could have gone better, gone through tough times, felt the exhilaration of delivering well, winning people round, read and developed, undertaken training, reflected on your personal and professional development  in a whole number of ways, achieved real results!

So what now....what will success look and feel like?

Pause....off the top of your head?

1. Who has made the biggest difference to your life and career so far, what did they give you?

2. What has made the biggest difference to your life and career so far?

3. What does that tell you, if anything? about your next steps, if you were talking to yourself, as your own supportive mentor - what 3 small actions would you tell yourself to take, to taste more of your own success?

Pause

Next steps? take one step today - make it small, taste how it feels to do what you've committed to, no excuses 

Just one of the reasons I'm a coach is to see people taste more of their own success.

Take in the view ..... are you on the path to the top?

At the very top of Arthur's seat, Holyrood Park,  Edinburgh earlier this week - on a sunny day, I looked out over the city, a panoramic view. 

I saw the sea, places I'd lived, places I'd visited - I thought back to being there almost exactly a year ago - a lot had happened and I was very grateful.

There was much to "see"  - the various paths from various angles, people approaching in different directions to climb the hill to the top - the wide well lawned path, the tiny cragged "on the edge path," the one with lots of little stones underfoot, the one with steps, quite causal, yet orderly and safe stones, the path with very shiny, slippery, stones, (that's hard to say!!), some paths with a sharp incline,  some gently rolling round and round and still getting there -  the rocks with small beautiful wild flowers on the way, more flowers much further over, visible but not within reach.

People around - on their own, holiday groups, families, friends, couples -  walking quietly, sleeping in the sun, children "rolling down, " folks clambering to the top, to the highest point! Dogs racing, some on leads, lots of conversation, photographs being taken, lots of space and beauty, lots of quiet.

I loved just being able to take in the view, to breathe, to enjoy the moment - to think about the year past and the year ahead.

Where is YOUR place to take in the view, physically and metaphorically?

Stop, take in the view... 

What path have you been on? where are you heading? are you on a path leading in a certain direction to the top? What is "the top" for you?

If you could look out, around you right now - What do you see? What has happened in the last year - what can you influence NOW for the future.  This time next summer - what do you want? What's the outcome...., take in the view and enjoy,  plan your way, make it happen -  its down to you!  Start walking that path now, step by step .... or keep persevering, if its the right path, stay on it!

 I can support you to get there, love to talk with you - do get in touch.