Don’t you hate it when you misjudge how many provitas with peanut butter to have with your tea? And then you finish them all before your tea is even cool enough to drink? And then you have to run downstairs again and get out the peanut butter again and open the...
My husband does this thing. When we’re finished training at the gym and before heading off for our respective showers, he says, “Take your time. I’m not in a rush.” In that moment, it’s the nicest thing anyone can say. In that moment, he has given me freedom, he has...
Confession: Parenting doesn’t come easily to me. When my first son turned six months old the realisation dawned that I’d managed to keep him alive. I hadn’t starved him, suffocated him or let him die from dread disease. Remarkable. To set the record straight, even...
How many of these apply to you: You have an outstanding product. Tick. You created it with heart and soul. Tick. You over-deliver on service. Tick. You’re reliable and consistent. Tick. Your clients think you’re amazing. Tick. You’re overwhelmed and exhausted. Double...
The words people use tell us a lot about them. They give us clues to what they might really mean while trying to hide behind phrases they think are more socially acceptable. But here’s the thing, we can all read the code. We know when they’re trying to pull the wool...
Admit it. You’ve done it. You’ve pressed ‘reply all’ when your snarky response was only meant for one. Or you’ve sent an angry - or worse, drunken - tweet in response to the project you spent hours pitching for, but didn’t get. Now what? How do you recover from...
I really suck at boiling eggs. They’re either too hard - so when you try and dip the toast into the egg it buckles clumsily against the yolk - or the egg’s too soft and makes everything soggy. Ugh. Taking pills. I think it’s because I’m lazy. I mean, if I’m ill I know...
Watching my children walk back into the classroom on the first day of school this week brought back memories of my own first days in a new grade. Would the teacher be nice? Would she like me? How hard would I have to work to show her I was smart? It never occurred to...
There’s something cathartic about quitting. Like that situation where your client found fault with your work, ignored your recommendation and landed up losing money on the deal. The client went on to blame you for their poor decision and then, after weeks of only four...
The other day I was writing a social media post on company mission statements and got to wonder how many people have a personal mission statement. It sounds so stuffy – personal mission statement – which is why probably not many of us have bothered. So I searched the...
