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Stop worrying about what others think

Worried about what people think?

Worrying about what others think can seriously affect your life and work. It can hold you back from speaking up at meetings for fear of getting it wrong and being criticised or judged, prevent you from trying anything new or even wearing what you want.

Do you find yourself worrying about what people think? It can be so paralysing and affect much of our decision making and really negative impact our lives. Read on to find out more about this and what you can do.

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inclusive leadership coaching

Why Inclusive Leadership?

And how to be an inclusive leader.

Few managers will be unaware of the fact that the workforce has now changed. To lead a successful team or business, they must be aware that there will be a diverse range of cultural backgrounds, beliefs and behaviours amongst their people and that speaking in one way, targeting one type of person is no longer enough to get their message across. It is important to practise inclusive leadership. Beside the fact that welcoming a variety of experiences and beliefs is absolutely the right thing to do, it can also create a healthier, more productive and creative workplace, that truly reflects society.

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mediation

Don’t forget you do have choices

Your choices can change everything

Do you feel like you’ve lost control? Does it feel like everyone else is powerful, things are working for them, but you just find that nothing works out how you want it to? Then realising that you have choices may help.

Choice is such an important part of life.  Most of us, are lucky enough to be able to make so many choices about how we behave, how we work and live.  We can choose how to react to others, to situations – we are not powerless.  This is often too easy to forget in the day to day busy-ness and stress of life.  It’s too easy to be passive and react to situations with frustration, anger or hopelessness, blaming circumstances or others for what happens when the most constructive thing we can do is recognise our options and move forward.

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The pearl and oyster analogy

Tools for resilience – the pearl and the oyster

Resilience: The pearl and the oyster analogy

During my time training as a resilience practitioner, I learnt many useful resilience techniques.  Learning that through adopting these, we can develop and become good at resilience was hugely inspiring as previously I don’t think I completely understood how much influence we have over our own reaction to challenging situations.

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Your beliefs are not facts

Change your limiting beliefs

Are your limiting beliefs holding you back?

On the simplest level, if you don’t feel generally satisfied, comfortable, strong about you and your place in the world, then it’s highly likely you will have some limiting beliefs holding you back. These can weigh you down and create an unhelpful narrative in your mind, which can be the instigator of impostor phenomenon or syndrome.

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