Timelapse Christmas Tree 2024
One of Santa’s Helpers kept moving the phone while recording this year 😂🎄🎁🦌 Click the photo below to watch it come to life! .
Being seen as a flight risk
A lot of professionals in their 20s & 30s approach me for career coaching because they want to change jobs but are worried about being seen as a flight risk to future employers. This is especially the case if they’ve changed jobs recently but want to change again. There are 2 questions I usually ask […]
How the world works
Everyone has their own assessment of how the world works because of the feedback loops they’ve experienced throughout their lives. Every action they’ve taken has produced a certain outcome. These outcomes have shaped their perspective of the world, and this in turn has influenced the decisions and behaviours to come. When you consider this over […]
Prioritise freedom
Freedom is a worthy metric of success for your career. As your career progresses, are you gaining more and more freedom to direct your energy and attention on your terms? This is important because if you follow more “traditional” metrics of career success, the more you advance the more restricted you may feel. So with […]
Where do astronauts hang out?
The space bar. .
Congratulations Humanitix!
Humanitix is the feel-good ticketing platform that started in Sydney and is being embraced by the world. They are a social enterprise that donates all their profits to charity, and they just donated $10 million last year – look at that growth curve! I’ve used Humanitix for ALL my events since it launched, especially with […]
I couldn’t possibly do that
It is awesome when a client shares their career ambition with me. My job is to then take the intangible and make it tangible. Sometimes when I suggest a way to realise their ambition, they say something like: “I couldn’t possibly do that” Here’s the thing. I also don’t know if they could do it. […]
Clarity is compelling
When I wanted to become Head of Operations, I wrote a proposal for the CEO. I put a lot of thought and effort into the proposal, but ensured that it was clearly laid out and simple to read. I remember presenting the proposal to the CEO in the morning, and it was approved later that […]
Balance Aspiration with Appreciation
A 20 year old can look at a 40 year old and wish they could achieve what they’ve done. While a 40 year old can look at the 20 year old and wish they had the same exciting outlook of what could be achieved. We will keep looking to others on our career journey as […]
Your reasons* will sound silly
When we want to make a change but we don’t do anything about it, we find it easy to explain why. Our reasons* for not doing something sound so genuine, so obvious, so apparent. And yet the more we hold off taking action, the less genuine these reasons* sound. And if we finally make the […]