Your time starts now
If you’ve been struggling to make a decision for a while, carve out a small window of time and challenge yourself to come to a decision by the end of it. If you only had 15 minutes to decide what to do, could you land on a decision? When we have big decisions that aren’t […]
Loyal to a fault
We all have a certain level of attachment to any organisation we’re involved with. For some of us, loyalty is such a strong value in our lives that we unduly bias our decisions to always put the organisation above ourselves. We don’t want to let our colleagues down. We want our managers to see us […]
What happens if we stop talking?
When people reach out for career coaching, they typically want something more in their career but they’re not sure if coaching would be useful to get it. I like to frame the value proposition of coaching in this way: “If we ended the conversation here, what would happen? How would the conversation go if we […]
Moments of change
During your career, a lot of the time will feel like nothing changes. But then there will be moments where everything changes. It’s important to appreciate that these moments can be within your control or outside of your control. Are you waiting for a moment to happen? Or are you seeking a moment out? .
Keeping commitments
It’s easy to make a commitment, but harder to keep it. So until someone takes action to demonstrate a commitment, hold loosely onto the expectation that they will follow through on it. .
Well played Google
One of the keys to viral growth is to leverage existing systems. It takes time and effort to learn new behaviours, so it helps to to insert a new behaviour alongside an existing behaviour. To compete with Zoom, Google automatically adds a link to its own video service as the meeting location once you add […]
It takes time to know what you want
Don’t be hard on yourself when you’re not sure about what to do. It can take (a lot of) time to realise what you want. The key is to keep leaning into the discovery process. Keep asking the questions that lead to more questions, until you start finding answers that mean something to you. .
The Specialist
Hans Zimmer composed scores for The Lion King, The Dark Knight, Gladiator, Inception, Interstellar and Pirates of the Caribbean. He says while reflecting on his work: While other kids were playing with Legos, I was torturing the piano. And it sort of became an obsessive thing, so I’m basically unemployable, I can’t do anything else. […]
A business is one vehicle
Many of the coaching conversations at QLA involve people wanting to start their own business. They come with a desire of what they want to do and have already determined that their own business is the way to get it. I like to explore this core assumption before the conversation goes any further. People see […]
The cost of active avoidance
When we avoid a task because of the time and effort it would take, we are spending time and effort in doing so. It’s helpful then to appreciate how many tasks you’re actively avoiding where you’ve spent more time and effort than the task would have actually taken. .