When interviewing a prospective client, or working with a new one, there are three key questions which make or break the outcome of your work together. Getting into your client’s head early and upfront will help you both manage expectation, and establish the key...
Want to make a quick, positive impact? Go to a meeting. It’s an easy platform to give value and one of the most effective ways to boost your personal brand. Meetings give you the opportunity to engage in a way that’s focused and relevant. If you do it well it develops...
Having coffee with a friend the other day I remarked on another friend’s political rant, my cousin’s sensitivity to gender stereotyping, a teacher’s vehement feminism, a girlfriend’s self-proclaimed fatism and the corporate world’s ageism. “I’m not an activist,” I...
I have two teenage boys at home – one my own, and one whose mother has courageously sent him halfway across the world to live with a stranger. A third teenager (mine) is homesick in a foreign country. A fourth, on his way. You’d think they’re the ones having the...
It’s increasingly my belief that our purpose in life consists of only two things: To see who we are, To have the courage to be it. Everything else is bondage.
My brother was the rebel. From failing school, to smoking dope in his bedroom ("They're Camel mom, that's why they smell funny") to having a secret weekend flat in Hillbrow (at age 16) to some incident that involved bullet holes in the microwave (?) to weird clothes...
Think of this as your permission slip. If you’ve been waffling, faffing or generally procrastinating, now’s the time to hop off the fence. If your truth has been on pause for too long, know that you’re now allowed to chase your dreams. As 2018 draws to a close, take...
About 60 million years ago, when I was 29, I was rocking it with one hand in the pocket of my brand new Diesel jeans, the other dexterously holding an until-that-night-totally-unfamiliar snooker cue stick. I have two clear memories from that evening, The shimmery...
So last night - as I was sad-movie-sobbing into my smoked strawberry salad, watching as the tears plopped into the arugula and wondering (as if in the mind of a different person) if they were salty enough to alter the taste of something I couldn’t taste anyway, and if...
On your life’s journey You discover things that are Obvious yet profound. Take for example: “How you live every day is How you live your life.” It brings mindfulness To opportunities lost. Or kilograms gained. Even better, ...
