Are you using your smartphone too much?
Photo credit where due, it’s not mine. I have been thinking about my phone. A lot. Too much. I’ve been thinking and touching it so much that before our family holiday I’m seeking to get things back in proportion. In this post I’m sharing possible solutions to my imbalance because I know many other bright, capable people are thinking too much about theirs too. Come to think of it, it’s not the phone element of the phone is it? It’s the apps. It’s the software... Read More
How to leave work on time and still be seen as committed
“How can I leave on time and still be seen as committed?” In a room of coaches and employers at a seminar we ran at the University of Hertfordshire on maternity comeback coaching recently, this was the subject participants honed in on out of 28 themes marked up for potential discussion. You might like to download this post to share or digest later (pdf). The question comes up time and again when working in a coaching relationship with maternity returners. It’s often on... Read More
Flexing Your Assertiveness
Had it not been for commitments in both our diairies last Friday afternoon, the impromptu call I had with a radio producer on the psychology of failure could have been a pleasingly long and philosophical one. (My musing this month isn’t on the well-trodden path of fear of failure though). She’d been talking to a marine who’s bemused by civvy street’s emotional response to failure because in his world you make plans that you expect to fail. In the marines... Read More
The Triple Burden
Rummaging around my PC looking for an article I thought I’d written, I found something else I started writing over a year ago and never quite finished before forgetting about it. I give you an eplanation of what the ‘triple burden’ of motherhood is and why it’s an issue. Let me know what you think: The Triple Burden: Bad Behaviour, Broken Heating and a Burgeoning Workload? I have turned to writing to stave off the tears prickling behind my eyes. For the... Read More
Family Flourishing
It seems like the advertising world beat me to ‘my’ great idea four years before I had it. Whilst I’ve been writing my book (Mothers Work! Published by Hay House, June 2011) I’ve been thinking up ways to drum up interest in my work as coach and author. It’s not enough to have a NEW book these days, you’ve got to have side issues that make for interesting stories in glossie mags and newspapers in their own right before you’ll get a plug.... Read More
