Category Archives: Personal Thoughts

Keeping 2012 Simple

laptop on large table, clear of clutter

Like many people I did some reflecting over the festive holiday break, as well as lots of planning for the new year ahead. Isn’t it lovely and exciting to be opening a brand new chapter, to see all those clean and waiting pages in the diary? I’m not a believer in making resolutions as experience…

Don’t tell me you haven’t got enough time!

inside watch

A word of warning before you read this post. It isn’t in my usual motivating and encouraging style. If you’re easily shocked and don’t want to find out just what a no-nonsense coach I can be, here’s something soft and fluffy to watch instead. In a small poll I ran last year, I asked the…

On being a selfish blogger

questions about me

Why do you blog, if indeed you do? I first started blogging, very self-consciously, in 2007. I certainly didn’t think ahead or realise that I was setting up a new habit of putting my thoughts out into the public domain that is the internet! My reasons for starting blogging were purely selfish – there, I’ve…

Are you walking your business talk?

overdoing the grated cheese

I first came across the expression ‘walking your talk’ when training as a life coach (more than 10 years ago now!). I have to admit that it wouldn’t actually have occurred to me not to walk my talk as it seems rather, well, dishonest. When newly in business, I made an almost unconscious decision not…

Happy New Year!

New Year Celebrations

As the first day of a new year and a new decade, it’s fitting that it should also see the quiet launch of this new blog and website! Actually I’m really excited to finally be pulling together all the months of planning and anticipation to give Simply Business Coaching a home of its own If…