This last week a prospective coaching client asked me what is one powerful belief I live my life by. Firstly, I must say, what an outstanding question to ask someone who you are considering employing to coach and guide you! My answer: we are 100% responsible for exactly where we are right now in our life. Just…
Read MoreI am an addict! Yep – a hardcore, long term addict, and my addiction is books. I am one of those people who experiences a dopamine hit when I get home and there is a package from the bookstore on my doorstep with my latest purchase. I eagerly rip open the parcel and will often sit…
Read MoreI was in the Sydney CBD a few weeks ago waiting for my friend. It was Friday afternoon and I was meeting him at the Town Hall so we could look at the shops for an hour before heading home. The streets were busy with a kaleidoscope of humanity – people rushing here and there,…
Read MoreSo you want things to be different. You have had enough of the status quo. You look back and realise that you have been living the same year over and over again: nothing seems to ever really change and you feel frustrated and disillusioned. What if there were some key pieces of information that, once…
Read MoreOver the last weekend I was in Singapore with an amazing bunch of people “crewing” at a Tony Robbins event called Unleash the Power Within. It was a four day marathon and very life-changing for most of the people in the room. In this particular room there were over 12,000 participants from 32 countries and I…
Read MoreSomeone asked me the other day “Who are the top three teachers you have had in your life, Kate?”. I loved this question because I have never really thought about it! I have lots of people that I have learnt from in all sorts of areas over the years, so to actually narrow it down…
Read MoreI deeply believe that feedback is the “breakfast of champions”. So often, people shy away from giving genuine feedback because they are worried about offending someone or not being liked. I get it. I still fall into that trap too sometimes. When I was younger, I very rarely gave feedback if I thought it could…
Read MoreWe are all born with a set of strengths. These strengths sometimes come to us so naturally that we don’t recognise them as strengths, or perhaps we don’t credit them as strengths. Some people are naturally good at communicating – they have no particular education or training around communication yet they have a real talent…
Read MoreIn last week’s blog I talked about fear and how it can really cripple us if we don’t learn how to have a healthy relationship with it. Fear is a part of life – we cannot avoid it – so the best way forward is to make friends with it and utilise it as a force…
Read MoreBeing a lover of the arts, music, theatre, literature and poetry, I am always on the lookout for pieces that move me – that stir up my soul. In my experience, when artists express themselves through these different mediums (and when they do it well) they become powerful storytellers and inspiring leaders. In fact,…
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