Trying to achieve work-life balance can set us up to fail
Ah, work-life balance. Working in climate and nature, more balance is much needed but can feel out of reach. You try to make changes, but they get scuppered by the next demanding deadline or unanticipated urgent important thing. And after a while, you might even end up dismissing the idea as an impossible, distant dream […]
Disconnected: What I learnt from breaking up with my phone
In August I decided to try an experiment – to use my phone just twice a day. Life in the months before August had led me to put down my phone more, so I was keen to keep this up. Why did I go so radical with experiment? I think because I wanted to shake […]
Work struggles: are you confusing limits and limitations?
It can be all too easy to confuse limits and limitations, particularly if we’re prone to self-doubt or confidence dips, and this can have a big impact on how we feel at work. Over time this confusion inhibits our ability to set healthy limits, which then undermines our energy, productivity and confidence even more – […]
What to expect in the messy middle of big changes
Whether we want to make a big work change or big planetary change happen, the messy middle is often the hardest bit. We can’t go back, but we’re a way off arriving at our new destination, and this mid-leap hinterland brings up many unique experiences and challenges. With this in mind I thought it might […]
What do we do, when we don’t know what to do?
We’ve been doing the same thing for a while… We like it, even love it at times, but really it’s stopped working for us.Actually, it may have stopped working a while back. We’re left wondering: “what should I do”?Change job, role, sector, take a break, shake up how we do things?We fear getting the next […]
5 years on: What did we learn from the pandemic?
5 years on, now is a good time to be asking this question again – in boardrooms and in teams – ideally, together: What did we learn from the pandemic? I know reflecting on this isn’t easy or appealing for anyone. But the reason it’s hard to do the reflecting is the reason it’s important […]
How do you want to connect with others at work?
As we start this year, it brings me joy and hope to see us humans reorienting towards the importance of community and connection. I’m seeing it in lots of directions… ~ In congregations of curious people heading over to Substack and Patreon~ In relieved conversations that un-shame scrolling and exhaustion~ Rooted in Trust and funder […]
How good are you at being bad at things?
This is a useful question to ask yourself in the midst of change and life generally. Change often brings a need for new. New beliefs, behaviours, habits, skills and contexts; things we haven’t done or experienced before. With this newness, comes the need to be a novice too. Yet as adults, opportunities to be beginners […]