Do you feel like you have lost your spark?  Perhaps things aren’t quite going your way.  Or you find yourself going through the motions but deep inside are feeling lost and directionless? Or perhaps you have gone through some significant life events and your life as you have known it has changed forever?  The old is gone but the new isn’t entirely clear. You have more questions than answers, if you are even clear about what these questions are.  It’s quite normal during such times to feel despondent, doubting of your own self and your abilities and experience feelings of anxiety and or unworthiness. 

Well – the good news is that this is a very natural part of the evolving human journey.  (more…)

We like to think we are in control of our lives but how much control do we really have? While there are many things we do have a choice and control over, there are also times and situations when we don’t get the “change ahead” warning.  For example, when we are afflicted with sudden ill-health or job loss or when a business partner lets you down in a totally unexpected way.  

Nature, when she unleashes her fury, also has a powerful way of reminding us just how little control we have.   First the devastation in Christchurch and now Japan.  For those directly hit by it, the sense of pain, loss, grief, anxiety and fear must be indescribable.  (more…)

The natural inclination for humans including leaders is to aspire, to want, to achieve.  Whether this is in one’s job, career, business, relationship and or sporting and community life, we are motivated by the pull of what is appealing and rewarding to us.  These hopes and desires keep us motivated and energized.

But we don’t always get what we want.  Even for those in leadership positions, the promotion or job slips away, the relationship one had banked everything on turns sour and even our health, which we had taken for granted suddenly reveals to us our vulnerability. (more…)