Fiona’s Blog

What's So Great About You?

Answer – Absolutely Heaps!

Your job is to see what’s so great about you and to bring it out. Then and only then will you be fully expressing your wonderful self, fulfilling your deepest potential and getting the acknowledgement and success you deserve. You need to spot your innate talents so you can make them work for you. For twenty years, I have been talent spotting – spotting the talents in my clients, ensuring they see them too – and that’s the beginning of growing real self-worth and self-appreciation. It makes …

Why The Secret Doesn't (Always) Work

The Secret came out in 2006 and has been a global phenomenon, sitting on best-seller lists for much of that time. Its simple message that you can think yourself thin, happy, rich and everything else is seductive. And it appears to work for many. But for many others – it doesn’t.

Get Your Story Straight!

Get a handle on your past or the past could scupper you or at least slow you down. And it’s not the past that will do the damage – it’s your version of it.

Get Out of Your Own Way! – 3 steps to take you from sabotage to success.

The world is made up of two types of people – those who are onside and those who aren’t. Where do you stand? You’re either backing yourself or you’re tripping yourself up, holding yourself back while others less good, less deserving, less talented pip you at the post.

Bounce Back – What's Your Biggest Obstacle?

What’s your Number One obstacle in bouncing back? The answer – You. Life is challenging. The best-laid plans can go wrong. There’s not a single one of us who doesn’t feel we could have/should have done some things differently/better.

More Power to You!

Abdicating power, letting others have dominion over you, putting up with nonsense, waiting for AN Other to make things better – this is the same wavelength that leads you to give your power over to a council or government. This is the real day-to-day nitty-gritty of personal power – allowing yourself to be insignificant, bullied and weak. Stand up and fight your corner, I say!

How’s Your Mojo?

Coaching is a demanding business. It demands that you embody the qualities others may want for themselves – optimism, self-confidence, positivity, joie de vivre. You have to keep yourself and your batteries continually charged. The better you feel, the better you look to others and the more success you’ll have – the more others will say ‘Yes!’

Self-reliance vs Dependence

Leafing through the papers over lunch yesterday I read that David Cameron wants to give power back to the people. He wants to ‘end this culture of entitlement and build a new culture of responsibility.’ Great idea. It makes me wonder – how does a government foster self-reliance? How can it promote personal responsibility? And is it made more difficult when it pays people not to work, when it takes responsibility for your survival and wellbeing? What does the cradle-to-grave paternalism do to the psyche?

Be Happy – Right Now!

The solution for our happiness and fulfilment can only truly come when we take total responsibility for Making it Happen – whatever it happens to be for you. And, in encouraging you to do so, I and others like me, are part of the solution. Here are my 5 Tips to Be Happy Right Now!

Bounce Back Britain

If your life was a book, and you were the writer, what would the present chapter be about? As a coach and trainer I get to meet many different people from all walks of life all over the UK, and whilst we’ve all seen the news reports explaining the recession from every conceivable angle, what I hear are personal insights, person to person; how it’s been for the individual. Very often in life it’s not so much the events that shape us, but what did in response to that event that counts.