For a lot of us today, one of the most exciting and aspirational ideas is to imagine a world in which we can swap the now often normal feeling of overwhelm for a feeling that we can show up and thrive, no matter what our day brings

So many of us are fed up of feeling overwhelmed. We are bored with our own catastrophising. We are drained by the lack of hope and optimism. We want to swap this feeling so often labelled as 'overwhelm' for a feeling that we can face any challenge that comes our way head on, roll with the punches and enjoy - even relish - the ride!

The truth is, for a lot of us, we can improve our lives dramatically by letting go of the rubbish that a lot of us carry around in our heads today about how life should be, without challenges or difficulties, and start to Show Up, roll with the punches and actually enjoy the ride of this wild thing we call life

We spend our entire lives in our minds, yet very few of us ensure they are a great place to be by carrying out a regul...

Over breakfast yesterday, we were watching Kelly Holmes winning her 800m Olympic gold. Even though we have watched it many times before, we were still … silent … spellbound

Why is it that some of us capture that brilliance and potential we are all capable of and some us don't? "How does she do that?" my 12 year old daughter turned to me and asked

Kelly is famous for overcoming heartbreaking injury at the World Championships in Athens to come back and win double Olympic gold in the 800m as well as the 1500m. But did you also know that Kelly was deaf until she was 3 years old and taught herself to speak by lipreading. In the army - despite her own fears of heights or water - Kelly was always first in line when it came to abseiling down sheer cliffs, or rafting fierce rapids. So the simple answer is, how Kelly does that, is she shows up - day after day, defeat after triumph, injury after injury, challenge after challenge

Showing Up is about being able to deal with life’s challenges, to...

The lionesses were 90 minutes away from immortality. Then Olga Carmona worked her magic and Spain pipped them to the post in the FIFA Women's World Cup™ final

Back in Madrid the streets started to fill with joyful celebrations

Talk about bouncing back - over the course of the month-long world cup event, Spain played through the shock of last year’s player rebellion and the recovery from injury of two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas

“We fought hard, that’s the truth, until we felt like we had nothing left. But when we go to the airport and see a girl with a football or with a football jersey and the desire to play it fills us with energy again and makes us keep fighting for what we’re still missing,” Putellas said

The 19 year old superstar Salma Paralluelo exclaimed, “You have to dream big to achieve things and, when the opportunity arrives, take advantage of it” 

Wow was it tense - a single goal separated the two sides as Spain made history and lifted their first-ever trop...

Why do so very many of us, at some point in our lives, suffer from not having clear enough boundaries? 

Which means we don’t say no, we don’t protect our time, we don’t value our personal energy. We do plenty to help others yet we don’t Show Up for ourselves

What’s more ...

Not having clear boundaries is one of the biggest causes of stress for a lot of us

This inability to set boundaries is experienced by a lot of high-performing and equally highly helpful people the world over – from activists to healthcare professionals, from teachers to management consultants, from best friends to parents, to partners

Look around and you will see we all face ballooning expectations from multiple stakeholders with increasing number of us having overworked schedules. A lot of us feel overwhelmed, overworked and overstressed. With little to no time to take care of our own personal wellbeing - we are at risk of experiencing burnout

So, what can we do about this?

Well a good place is to start bui...

'Quiet quitting’ is the new work trend – what if rather than quietly quitting on work, you are quietly quitting on you?

Quiet quitting was first talked about on Twitter by Dr Justin Carrington in March 2022. He warned of an age of 'quiet quitting' due to burnout, poor leadership, and lack of empowerment. Next thing it was all over TikTok, where users promoted it as an alternative to joining ‘the Great Resignation’, seeing disillusioned workers resign post lockdown, as companies gave up WFH. However, the problem then became finding another job

The idea of quiet quitting is that more people are choosing to simply meet their job description, do the minimum required, and even wait in the wings for redundancy to be handed out

The thing is, if this is you (and according to a recent Gallup poll you are not alone, 50% of the US workforce are quiet quitting) it’s not just work - you could also be quiet quitting your passions, your dreams, your relationships, your friendships, or other commit...

We can't change the past, but if we do something now, we can change our future

Have you ever wondered, what is one of the biggest things you can do now to change your future?

When we think about "choosing to do something today that our future self will thank us for", as actor Sean Patrick Flanery encourages - typically we think of improving our health, sorting out a pension, gaining a qualification. We very rarely think of leaning in, living more fully in the moment, and letting go of our baggage

The truth is, one of the biggest ways we can improve our futures, is by letting go of the rubbish that a lot of us carry around in our heads today

We spend our entire lives in our minds, yet very few of us ensure they are a great place to be by carrying out a regular practice of tidying up, chucking out and organising what is in there - a bit like trees letting go of their leaves in autumn

This means most of us spend our lives with messy, complex, unfounded lies which we tell ourselves ab...

Most of us have heard the well known saying, "80% of success is Showing Up", yet if this is true, why is it that so few of us actually do Show Up?

Let's start with what we mean by Showing Up

Showing Up is about allowing ourselves to be seen. Courage and vulnerability are the essence of what we are doing when we reveal ourself, we are being open - being open about our commitments, our accountabilities, where we are weak and where we are strong

This is Showing Up

If you think through people you know, at home and at work, you can probably come up with very few examples of people who really do Show Up who are consistent, who do what they say will do and are accountable for their actions, 100% of the time

The thing is, often the reason we aren't really truly, consistently Showing Up, is because we are not starting with Showing Up for ourselves first

Particularly if we see ourselves as 'high performers' - we will talk proudly about how we Show Up at work, and equally - if we see oursel...

Why do so very many of us, at some point in our lives, suffer from a feeling of wonkiness, a fear of note being good enough, the fear of not being perfect?  Which means, we don’t start, we don’t try, we don’t finish, we give up. We don’t Show Up

For some of us, this so-called normal feeling of not perfect only hits us on certain days, when nothing we do feels good enough. We kind of hate ourselves for a bit, pour ourselves a glass of wine, or take it out on our loved ones, go to bed angry and wake up kind of ready for a new start the next day 

For those people this feeling of ‘not good enough-ness’ seems to pass and doesn’t visibly impact their daily lives. Here’s the thing though - honestly, most of us struggle with this feeling, for a bit longer than a moment  

This feeling of 'not good enough-ness' does seriously impact how we Show Up and what we achieve in our lives

For some of us we fight the feeling of not being good enough by going into workaholic, overachieve mode. Others o...

I don't know about you, but we hear a lot of people talking about 'Showing Up'

The thing is what does it actually mean? In fact, some people even go so far as to say that Showing Up is the start of making great things happen…

Yet Showing Up is not always easy, in fact we definitely agree with Brene Brown who says,

"Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up"

One minute we are mid pandemic, wondering whether we should or shouldn’t be wearing masks, then we are confronted by the tragic situation in the Ukraine, then we have the financial impact of all this on prices for essential items such as fuel and food

Yup, for a lot of us, our current reality is tough

Not surprising then, that some of us are floundering. How to look forwards when we don't know what forwards looks like anymore? Hard to hope, when everything around us is in havoc

I don't know if you have noticed though, some of us are – dare we say it - flourishing. Some of us are deftly pivoting...

We can't change the past, but if we do something now, we can change our future

Have you ever wondered, what is one of the biggest things you can do now to change your future?

When we think about "choosing to do something today that our future self will thank us for", as actor Sean Patrick Flanery encourages - typically we think of improving our health, sorting out a pension, gaining a qualification. We very rarely think of leaning in, living more fully in the moment, and letting go of our baggage

The truth is, one of the biggest ways we can improve our futures, is by dealing with the rubbish that a lot of us carry around in our heads today

We spend our entire lives in our minds, yet very few of us ensure they are a great place to be by carrying out a regular practice of tidying up, chucking out and organising what is in there

This means most of us spend our lives with messy, complex, unfounded lies which we tell ourselves about who we are, what we are capable of and even what we s...