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Foresight, Midsight, Hindsight: A Formula for Sustainable Change.

What is sustainable change? I believe it’s when we are able to cultivate a new habit, a novel way of being or doing, and maintain that long term. We might find this very easy to do for some habits, for example finding an alternative route to work and sticking to it, or deciding to wake [...]

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What is Meaningful Work?

“When you are competent, you can do your work at high standards. When you are a master, you invent the next level of your work, craft or business, which is a lot more attractive, especially to better clients and customers.” Thomas Leonard. Autonomy: the opportunity to choose for ourselves a form of employment that suits [...]

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What Can Money Teach Us?

Here’s a great topic to avoid – money! In my experience of coaching, discussing financial issues can be one of the areas that clients have most resistance to broaching and yet money is something from which we can learn a tremendous amount. You’ve only got to set yourself the challenge of living just a single [...]

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How to Handle the Guilty Ecologist

“Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself. He also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace.” James Allen How often do you feel guilty for choosing a course of action – [...]

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Love Letter to the Future

I was prompted to write this blog and my Love Letter to the Future by a campaign that Greenpeace ran during the Copenhagen summit. However, it seems just as pertinent on Valentine’s Day, as a reflection on our love for others, for the earth and  for other life forms. It also reminds me of the [...]

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Winter Blues and Positive News

Apparently January 25th  was officially the most depressing day of 2010. Called “Blue Monday” the Monday on the last week of January each year is the day when we’re most likely to feel down and lack-lustre. This is often attributed to the combination of debt from Christmas, cold and wet weather, suffering from colds and [...]

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Green Shoots?: The Real Meaning of Growth

Despite what our political leaders insist on telling us, we all know deep down that persistent economic growth is no longer an option if humankind is to survive for very much longer on this planet. Yet it is not “growth” per se that is a bad thing when we consider what it really means. Growth [...]

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How to Lead an Authentic Life

In several of the articles I’ve written, I mention authenticity and the benefits of living in alignment with our values – living authentically. Beverley has contacted me to ask that I produce some kind of straightforward checklist on how to lead an authentic life. Here’s what I’ve come up with (so far!): 1.    Know your [...]

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