Newsletters

From time to time I email out an article focused on professional and/or personal development. Below is a brief outline of each Newsletter and a link to the full text.

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Exploring the Edge - No. 1 : Going Beyond the Edge. Edges are the place where things change, areas of transition, places where you cross the line - whether you run, walk, jump or even dance across it. Are there any 'edges' that you are wanting to cross? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 2 : Teeth, Meet Edge. Edge, Meet Teeth. Dealing with the unexpected and unwanted. Taking control of the meaning you give to events, and the way you deal with them, even when you can't control the events themselves. Dealing with the 'internal saboteur' (Gremlin). Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 3 : Getting off Your ***! When you 'get off your ***', are you being efficient or effective (or preferably both?). Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 4 : Leap Before You Look? The advice to "Look before you leap" is not always the best advice. Are your risk-taking 'muscles' flabby? What is your usual relationship to risk-taking? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 5 : …… Or Just 'On Edge'? Taking control of your life and your mind and your body in order to decrease stress and increase well-being. Breathing. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 6 : A Breath at a Time. Introduction to 'Mindfulness of Breathing' meditation technique. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 7 : Following Your Bliss. Does your work fulfil, energise and excite you. Does it honour your deeply-held values and allow you to be your 'real self'? Identifying your values. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 8 : The Intuitive Leap. What is Intuition? And how can you access it? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 9 : Between One Year and the Next. A New Year Ritual instead of New Year resolutions? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 10 : A Simple (?) Question. A question based on a Mary Oliver poem : What do you plan to do with your "one wild and precious life"? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 11 & 12 : It Depends How You Look At It. A 7 step process for exploring different ways of looking at an issue so that you don't get 'stuck' in a single perspective. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 13 : It's the Little Things that Count. What really makes you happy as opposed to what you believe will make you happy. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge - No. 14 : Work/Life Balance. The symptoms of work/life imbalance. How to improve the situation. Creating the motivation to change. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 15 : "You Got to Have a Dream". Turning good intentions and/or lack of clarity and/or dreams into real results. The power of intention. Creating the vision. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 16 : Divers & Dabblers. Which are you? Do you like to be a 'specialist' who 'dives deep' or are there just so many things you're interested in you don't know how to fit them all in? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 17 : 'Til Death Do Us Part? Relationships. The 'myths'. The Seven Principles of successful relationships. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 18 : Putting Things Off. How to make sure those Important but Not Urgent activites don't always keep slipping down the To Do list. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 19 : Being Kind to Yourself. If 'getting more motivated' means beating yourself up harder, then maybe you need to find what will 'pull' you rather than assuming you need your Gremlin to 'push' you. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 20: Being Free. What would it mean to "Follow everything except orders and habits". Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 21: How Easily Do You Give Up? "Brick walls are there for a reason. They let us prove how badly we want things" Randy Pausch Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 22: What is Security. "Security is not having things but handling things" Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 23: New Beginnings. Happiness in this moment - and this moment - and this moment - .................. Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 24: Mice, Mazes & Mindfulness. 1) Update on Newsletter 19 - Being Kind to Yourself 2) Update on Newsletter 6 - A Breath at a Time 3) Update on 'Wild at Heart - Eco-friendly holidays to delight and inspire you.' 4) And finally - Silent Retreats : Heaven or Hell? Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 25: Constructive Conflict - Part 1. Understanding conflict - practical and emotional causes and the development of the 'Conflict Loop'.  Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 26: Constructive Conflict - Part 2. Managing Yourself in Conflict. Questionnaire to help you identify your 'default' conflict style?.  Click for more...

Exploring the Edge No. 27: Constructive Conflict - Part 3: Communication Skills & New Directions.   Click for more...

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