by Alison Reid | Jan 11, 2021 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Home » Leadership Go out of your mind How are you? This time of year can be challenging at the best of times as you get back into the swing of things after the Christmas break and hunker down given the short winter days. This year, many of us are also dealing once...
by Alison Reid | Dec 15, 2020 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Home » Career Not-so-great expectations? A few months ago, I wrote a post called Befriend reality about how holding on to expectations about how things should be, rather than how they are, can cause us unnecessary suffering. As I write this, we’re waiting, at...
by Alison Reid | Nov 27, 2020 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Home » Archives for Alison Reid Decide to choose The other day, I watched a talk by Peter Baines, a former forensic specialist and founder of charity Hands Across the Water, a charity set up to help children in Thailand who lost their families and homes as a result of...
by Alison Reid | Nov 6, 2020 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Home » Resilience And breathe… Where is your breath right now? When I ask my coaching clients this, they’re often a bit perplexed. “My nose? My mouth? I’m not sure what you mean.” If you’re also a bit confused by my question,...
by Alison Reid | Oct 23, 2020 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Home » Resilience What sort of “ist” are you? In her latest book, Dare to Lead, Brene Brown talks about the Stockdale Paradox. Admiral Stockdale was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for 8 years. He was tortured more than 20 times, yet still helped other...
by Alison Reid | Oct 7, 2020 | Career, Confidence, Leadership, Resilience
Home » Resilience Have the courage of your convictions Since they introduced clay courts at our tennis club, it’s much easier to make a line call. If you call the ball out and your opponent disagrees, you can actually go over to the spot where the ball landed...
