Being afraid of failing can be a very powerful fear and it can stop us even trying to achieve our goals. Learning how to recognise and overcome it can change your life.
Being afraid of failing can be a very powerful fear and it can stop us even trying to achieve our goals. Learning how to recognise and overcome it can change your life.
One of the most common goals I work on with clients is how to improve their self-confidence and self-esteem. I start by asking them what it would feel like if they did have great self-confidence. This question can often be a difficult one to answer.
It’s a strange but true fact that if you put one crab in a bucket it can claw its way up the side and escape. However, if you have a number of crabs in the bucket they will work together to stop any crabs escaping by pulling them back down.
I don’t believe in having regrets. I definitely have things in my past that I look back on without any pleasure and would not want to live through again but I don’t regret them. Regret is a very negative emotion that can contribute to a critical inner voice and too much time spent thinking about the past rather than the future. I accept my past and I accept that I made decisions based on where I was and who I was at the time. I may well do it differently today but that is ok. I have learned from my […] Read more
A very wise person introduced me to the concept of picking three words as my theme for the New Year rather than setting New Year’s resolutions. I did this for 2019 and really worked for me so I am doing it again for 2020 and I’d like to pass on the concept to you. The challenge with New Year’s resolutions is that we often set challenging goals that are black and white i.e. we succeed or fail. There is no grey. Often they require significant changes to our routines and habits and the reality is that most of us have […] Read more
