24 Words of Wisdom for Working Parents
21) Work like a lion (not a dog).
Imagine you have a big juicy bag of bones. A dog sits at your feet staring at the bag. You throw a bone and the dog eagerly fetches it, brings it back and chews on it. You throw another, same thing....
20) Do you know what settles you?
Our brains are like our own internal meerkat wired and hyper-vigilant for threats. When we perceive constant danger we are in state of constant tension and unease. A good description of 2020 for...
19) This Christmas can you psychologically detach?
As many of us come to our last (official) working day of a tumultuous 2020 and limp wearily towards the holidays can we find a way to detach from work and replenish? Firstly why is this important?...
Thoughts in a 2-Minute Read
Are you made for these times?
If you prefer to listen to this blog, click below for the audio. Or, just read on...Happy New Year to you all. We hope 2025 is a year of abundance for you and your families. It’s easy at the moment...
Remember Mrs Elf This Christmas
If you prefer to listen to this blog, click below for the audio. Or, just read on...We all know that Christmas time asks a lot of working parents. Just when you thought that you couldn’t squeeze one...
Boundary Setting
If you prefer to listen to this blog, click below for the audio. Or, just read on...Fact: Setting boundaries is hard, but broken boundaries are even harder Look to any working parent anywhere, and...
Reading
Advice for Working Dads
Our senior executive coach Mark McCartney, recently contributed a brilliant chapter to the Harvard Business Review's book ‘Advice for Working Dads’. Mark uses real life examples and challenges out...
Stolen Focus: Johann Hari
Sharon Charlton-Thomson "There are some books I love, some books that are meh, and some books that are complete game changers for me and this one by Johann Hari: 'Stolen Focus’ definitely gets that...
Lunchtime Learning for Leaders: 16 Ways to Grow Your Resilience and Influence by Dr Lucy Ryan
An absolute GEM of a book! We are not just recommending this book because we are big fans of our friend Dr Lucy Ryan, but because it’s an absolute belter of a book. Lucy has somehow distilled...
Watching
Esther Perel on work relationships
Relationships at work are critical to our success and happiness. In this clip Esther Perel, one of the worlds foremost experts on relational dynamics, explores relational intelligence at work....
The University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre: Changing Modes After Work.
We are recommending this 4-minute ditty from The University of Oxford Mindfulness Centre called Changing Modes After Work. We often remind our coaching clients that the single most effective...
Optimising the Performance of the Human Mind: Steve Peters at TEDxYouth
You may be familiar with the best selling Chimp Paradox by - get a top up in 13 minutes by watching Dr Steve Peters explain the theory of the Chimp paradox that some of us know as the Inner critic....
Listening
The Psychology Podcast
If you do get an hour to yourself a brilliant podcast to listen to is the Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman. The podcast has great interviews, including a study of greatness,...
Everything Under the Sun Podcast
Children have a unique ability to ask brilliant and often unanswerable questions. On the Everything Under The Sun podcast, Molly Oldfield, question writer on BBC show QI, sets about to answer these...
Life Kit: Parenting: What To Tell Kids When The News Is Scary
This NPR podcast was produced pre pandemic but with so much scary news around right now it has universal advice for talking about scary times. The examples may not be applicable to your family but...