I was standing behind a couple at a busy hotel reception recently. The husband asked his wife: ‘What time shall I book the taxi for?’ The woman, struggling with various bags and cradling a mobile phone in her shoulder, whilst conversing with the receptionist, spectacularly lost her temper at this question. She told him [...]

Ever felt like your mind is running away with you? That your head is spinning with thoughts of disaster? Here are typical things we say to ourselves (Yes, we all do it!) ‘You stupid idiot! You’ve done it wrong, now everyone will laugh.’ ‘I can’t do that.’ ‘Why did I ever [...]

I re-learnt a lesson today. When you are feeling emotional it’s impossible to think clearly. Thanks to someone else’s decision my working life was going to change drastically. When this thought hit me I dived straight in to a mental soup of doom, despondency and outrage. I was letting myself get caught up in [...]

Burnout is a kind of job depression and robs you of motivation. When you’re struggling with burnout you are demotivated, dispirited, depressed - DOWN. The burnout cycle is a trap where you dread going to work and find it harder and harder to perform.
Burnout is caused by feeling you have no control. A sense [...]

Have you sometimes left a meeting or conversation feeling disappointed with yourself? Perhaps you felt you got too emotional or didn’t give your best? Did you then pledge to yourself to change and not let it happen again only to find it’s just impossible to stop?
Don’t worry you are not the only one with this [...]