“I finished first, didn’t I Mummy? I’m taller, aren’t I Mummy? I’m quicker. I’m better. I beat you”. As a mother of two girls, aged 3 and 4, these words fill my every day. And they are not phrases that I have taught them, they are words that come to […]
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Ambition and desire are seeds planted within us that urge us to be the best that we can be. It is a fine thing to want to hone your craft as a business person, artist, parent, athlete, teacher or any pursuit that uses your “genius” (your gifts and talents). However, […]
She’s not your competition; Day fourteen
Competition in perspective need not be about today’s or tomorrow’s result. It is the tool to building a preferred future in which our brilliance is magnified, our failings minimised or developed and we find ourselves living our preferred future. So every time you compete and achieve less than you intended, […]
She’s not your competition; Day thirteen
We can become wary of competition because we believe that it destroys friendships, families, teams and workplaces by alienating people, that it always sets up a winner and a loser. I would be naïve not to admit I’ve seen that all too many times. BUT. Yes, a ‘but’ is required […]
She’s not your competition; Day twelve
More and more I have come to believe that it is in a crisis we find out how much we have within us (capacity of human spirit, endurance, skills) and so often we end up surprising ourselves. Yet when we have a chance to set out own course, we plan […]
She’s not your competition; Day eleven
The voice in my head at times tell me I’m not good enough or that my husband couldn’t possibly love me because there are so many other beautiful women out there. That the woman in that outfit looks amazing and I could never wear that. That the naturally thin […]