Tickle My Brain

Would you rather be ready for everything or ready for anything? Ready for everything suggests a great deal of preparation – imagining every possible scenario and preparing for it. Of course you would also need to plan for the unexpected: The tangents, the distractions, the objections, the heckles and the miss-matched expectations. Ready for anything [...]

Have you ever noticed that whenever you think about about ‘managing relationships’ you never really have them? Maybe you do on a surface level, but not many on a deep, open, effortless level. Your really great relationships probably don’t need any managing. Relationships are not things, they are a collection of experiences, and if you [...]

I never really understood the idea of managing change. To me, it’s a bit like having a process to make sure the stable door is shut properly long after the horse has bolted. The fundamental reason for the range of emotions labeled on ‘the change curve’ (that people may or may not experience) is that [...]

Certain people like to be certain about certain things that they certainly can’t be certain about. One of the things that changed my life completely was learning to say, “I don’t know.” I would invite you to experiment with it… Simply relaxing and taking the time to think “I don’t know” has extraordinary consequences. “I [...]

I have said on previous blogs, often feedback will be more about the  person giving it than the person receiving it, and sometimes their underlying concerns may be very different to yours. I find it challenging when my objective is getting a fantastic result, but the objective of the person I’m working for is to [...]

A close friend of mine is a highly skilled craftsman. He stands at his bench, in a world where time does not exist, calling on years of skill and experience without effort or needing to think about it, and he creates. It is irrelevant whether or not he has the attention of others, he’s just [...]