Category Archives: Coaching

Warning: Not All Career Rules Are True

Corporations often dish up beliefs as truths and then manage you through that lens. I see it all the time in my coaching work. There's an implicit set of assumptions that underpin ...

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What Keeps You Awake At Night?

The other day I was doing a thorough review of the analytics of my site with Marketing Coach, Jim Connolly. We discovered an interesting thing. Lots of people are reading my stuff at 2am. There could be two reasons for this: Either you're so ...

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Workshops: The Most Powerful Form Of Coaching?

This week I've been talking to a number of people who are attending the Work Life Balance Workshop I'm running on September 24th. Besides asking me about what to expect, the conversation has often moved into questions about my motivation for creating the event, and why I chose a workshop format at all. I decided ...

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The Last Summer Holiday You’ll Need?

Did you see the recent research that reckoned it takes only two days back at work for all of the benefits of being on holiday to disappear? How sad is that? Still, it echoes a lot of what I hear and see around me: people completely frazzled ahead of the school holidays, ...

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Doing Your Real Work

Today I'm delighted to welcome the super-talented Tara Sophia Mohr. Her beautiful piece challenges us to consider what our real work is - and how we can do it, ...

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The Vocation Myth

Lots of people get sucked into the current new age wisdom that we all have one unique thing we're called to do in life. They spend years, not to mention thousands of pounds, on the ...

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Want To Learn Faster? Stand Next To The Master

On Saturday morning I went to my regular Bodypump class. I was a little later than usual in getting there. Walking into the studio to set up my equipment I couldn't help noticing that the other participants had already done so in a cluster ...

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The Purpose Of Doom And Gloom

I've had a curious experience this week that I wanted to share. It was all the more surprising as I'd just spent some deeply happy days unplugging and enjoying the successes of the first half of the year. And back ...

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A Month of Birthdays

Believe it or not, this blog is a year old this month. And it was my birthday yesterday. As you read this, I'm easing back for a few days, basking in my gratitude for this last amazing year. Join me in a ...

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The Worklife Makeover Review

I ran my first The Worklife Makeover workshop last Friday. Sure, I've run workshops before, but it was the first time I'd done so under A Different Kind of Work's banner. I loved every minute of it, which at ...

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