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When it’s time for a change

by Joanna on December 14, 2007

Here are some snippets from posts inspired by those days, those moments, when you just know that it’s time for a change. Resilience or the art of bouncing back What a great set of ingredients for being resilient, for bouncing back.  And don’t you love the word – I feel more positive just saying “bouncebackability”… [...]

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Nothing here but potential

by Joanna on May 26, 2007

These were the words on a huge billboard on Edinburgh’s South Bridge: ‘Nothing Here but Potential’.  The billboard sits above a massive gap site that runs down below the bridge, a wasteland created by a devastating fire that ravaged the city’s Cowgate five years ago.    It made me think of times when we, too, [...]

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The power of spring

by Joanna on May 4, 2007

Spring just keeps on springing in Scotland.  April has been the most amazing month of weather – warm, dry and sunny with hardly a drop of rain.  Now the cherry blossom is out in all its glory and the place looks just amazing.  The poor tourists can hardly walk along Princes Street without stopping to [...]

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Mark Twain on coaching without goals

by Joanna on April 19, 2007

People often ask if they can still ‘do’ life coaching when they don’t know what their goals are.  The answer, in my book, is an emphatic “yes”. Not knowing which way to go next is part of the human condition.  As Mark Twain once said: “I can teach anybody how to get what they want [...]

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Why milestones matter

by Joanna on April 7, 2007

I know loads of people who’ve started thinking about the need for change – in their careers, their personal lives, their personal or spiritual development – as they approach a milestone birthday.  Of course some people don’t do anything about it at the time (even though the quiet whisper, the gentle knocking on the door [...]

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