Step by Step Coaching

Thanks to the many friends and collegues who sent me happy birthday messages via text, email and Facebook ...

Watching a performance on stage Yesterday we had the Spring Fair at our local school. It’s the school’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Each year, the task of planning and managing the Spring Fair falls to the parents of Class 4; which this year included us. Ja ...

As a personal coach, I spend a fair bit of time chatting with my clients about events that took place in their childhood. I do this because it helps give me critical insights into the events that have shaped a client’s behaviour. ...

I write this with a heavy heart, my eyes glazed and swollen yet again today. How paradoxical, that my last post announced a new life, and this one mourns the loss of another. Such is the circle of life ...

No, it wasn’t my birthday yesterday… (A realisation I can wait until next week for!) Chloie born 2:06am Nov 4th But at 2:06am yesterday, my best mate (since we were 6 years old) became a grandfather. As ...

It’s Monday again, but the weekend didn’t seem like a weekend at all. Lately every week seems to just blend together as one big one. Very pleasurable garden wedding It wasn’t all work we were doing, but we just didn’t stop. We had ...

My little girl in Jafuska 2005 There is something pretty cool about a group of kids jamming in the garage. As a teenager, my daughter played sax in a band called Jafuska for three of four years and I used to love taking her to practice going to their gigs ...

Yesterday we found out that Buddy, our 10-year-old Labrador’s lungs are riddled with tumours and it is only a matter of time. Everyone's Buddy We all have stories about the greatest dog we ever had, but what is different about Buddy is that he is an ex guide dog. ...

We have two dogs, Buddy, the older one and Shadow (no prizes for guessing he just follows Buddy around all the time). As Buddy has started getting older, Shadow has really begun to irritate him ...

One of the things I love about going for my morning jog is that it gives me a chance to think about the day or the week ahead. As I went around the lake yesterday morning, my head was filled with things that I needed to sort out ...

There is a great lesson here in the power of lateral thinking. What could you achieve if you started to ‘think outside the box’? Like this blog post? Click here to shout me a drink or send a tip! Sh

One of the things I love about the web these days is the wealth of information that we can get from ‘mashing’ of site content. (A ...

As I went for my morning jog today, all of my thoughts were with those who have been affected by the latest tsunami. I was in Thailand only a month before the last major tsunami and the reality of that disaster is etched in my memory ...