The electric warning systems on my car have gone a bit bonkers. The parking sensors beep even when there is nothing but dust motes within two feet of the bumper. Random messages pop up telling me that my tyres have dangerously low pressure. At first I kept getting out of the car to check for unseen two year olds or wounded pheasants on the road….
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Are you being kind enough to yourself?
A tale from the Court of Protection reminds us why it is important as professionals to be kind to ourselves.
Extended court opening hours – the threat and the power of choice.
The statement in my inbox held no punches. The woman who wrote it told me she was ‘struggling’, that her ‘mental health was spiralling out of control’ that she ‘lived a daily nightmare’. As a Family Law practitioner, I am sadly used to tales like this. What I am not used to is these stories not being about the clients of lawyers but about the barristers…
When ‘doing’ change might not work as well as ‘being’ change.
Is there something that you want to change in your life? Have you been trying to change it for a while but it’s just not happening for you? Maybe it’s a self -destructive habit like always leaving your work to the last minute so you end up burning the midnight oil and turning up to work the next day sleep deprived and cranky. Or perhaps…
How to deal with a squawking Inner Critic.
A few months ago I was at my desk writing a to-do list for the launch of my new coaching practice and I could hear the chirruping voice of my Inner Critic. It sat on my shoulder, like a pirate’s parrot, repeating over and overNot ready! Not ready! Not ready! I was about to leave the judiciary and start a new career and it felt…
Beware the false career peak
My Dad is a fell walker. On childhood holidays in the Lake District he used to make me join him. We would slog up steep mountain crags, him revelling in the view, me trailing behind, looking at my feet and moaning. I was a reader. I wanted to be at the bottom in a deckchair with a good book. To encourage me he would always…