I thought I'd gotten over the old feeling I had of needing to do a great job all the time - until it reared it's head again last week.

Sometimes our next step, or our next decision, can feel so monumental… that we don't take it. Usually because we’re obsessed with making sure that next step is perfect.

It is important that we regularly look at our beliefs and ideals to make sure they continue to steer us in the direction we want. But it’s actually harder than it sounds.

If you're resisting something, it's a big flashing neon sign that it's important to you. Because why bother resisting something we don't really care about? That we aren't really invested in?

The best approach is always going to be your approach. Take the time to identify your strengths and actively use them to get fast results.

The theme for mental health awareness week this year has been ‘kindness’ and I’ve seen plenty of people going the extra mile to be kind to each other during lock-down. But the purpose of the blog this week is to remind you to be kind to yourself.

If we've decided to break out of our day to day lives in some way (e.g. to start a new career, to move house, to get fitter), then it makes sense to me that we would need to break away from our old thinking that created our old life.

I expect you've noticed that no one really knows what they're doing at the moment, so your ideas could be exactly what we need right now.

These are 4 resilience tactics that will help return you to a resourceful mindset. I’m interested to hear how you are and which of these ideas creates most impact for you over coming weeks.

While we're in lock down, we're spending a lot of time in isolation with our own thoughts.
And if your mind is anything like mine, it's a pretty busy place. So it needs active management now more than ever …

In the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown, your priorities have probably changed. And I think that proves how resilient you are.

During the Covid-19 crisis it will be essential for leaders to be empathetic. The key is to keep enquiring, someone who is okay today may not be okay tomorrow.

As well as being unhealthy in all the obvious ways, I want to zone in on this idea of clinging on to something too tightly. When we’re clinging on too tightly, we aren’t allowing space for new ideas, different solutions, other outcomes - we end up thinking along the lines of ''it must be THIS particular job, nothing else works.’

I want to remind you that all progress is progress…

Instead of playing the long term game, investing in a professional qualification, networking or hitting the gym, we make short term decisions to watch TV or go for drinks with our friends. We know the actions we need to take and repeat to get the outcome we want, and yet we don't take them.

In short, we have natural biases that impact our decision making. Being aware of them means we can wrestle back some control from our social and psychological programming to help us achieve the best outcomes.

Whatever question you have, you know someone who can answer it. It's easier than you might think.

It's not really more time we are in need of, it's energy.

It’s important to be visible and present in the workplace to motivate your team - but not at the cost of your own productivity. So how do you get the balance right?