I am quite an intuitive person, and rely on my gut feeling for a lot of decisions and actions in life. I sometimes notice myself pushing back when others lean towards more fact-based approaches, when others are more logical and make decisions based on gathered information about a topic. I find it hard …
Nonsense is everywhere. My definition of nonsense is ‘actions and words that make situations more complicated, noisier, and are not at all aligned with personal or organisational values, vision or purpose.’ Nonsense can be found in organisations, in relationships and sometimes in our own brains. Nonsense is stuff like ‘this person said …
Our brilliant Bird associate Elloa Atkinson sent me a groundbreaking book yesterday. It’s called Reinventing Organisations (I recommend the illustrated version) and talks about the next paradigm of work. I am out of my mind with excitement about this book. It shares, that what we’re looking at in future is workplaces that are no longer …
When you do a job that involves supporting others in some way it can feel challenging, overwhelming and emotionally tiring. It’s natural to feel this way when working in the not-for-profit or public sector. When the emphasis is always on helping others it can be easy to forget your own needs. We …
It’s very easy to forget ‘the point’ or ‘purpose’ when we’re super busy. We can come into a project with energy and vision, and over time lose sight of what that driving force was. Likewise it’s really common to be unsure of the point; to not really know how or why we arrived …
At Bird we work with brilliant people in the not-for-profit sector to help them build robust self-care toolkits in order to stay resilient. We work on dealing with self-sabotage, developing mindful or meditative practices, building strategies to process emotions, establishing boundaries so resilience is preserved and built. But beyond all of the …
We live and work in a world where creating success and perfection is encouraged. When we strive for such, life becomes hard and tiring, and we inevitably begin to believe we’re substandard because we can’t quite meet all of those expectations. So often we’re chasing the carrot, and from a young age …
Much of the time we’re plotting and planning what we’re going to get better at, or change, or improve. It’s easy to become fixated on being better at work, being slimmer or more fit, improving parenting skills, or making our relationships better and stronger. At Bird we’re all for having a vision …
Yowzers how nice is this sunshine we’re having in the UK! Doesn’t life seem so much lighter when the sun shines? (The pun isn’t lost on me 😉 So we’ve been talking all things stress over the past few weeks. This week I want to focus on the relationship between stress and …
In honour of Stress Awareness Month we’re talking all things stress in our blogs. This week we’re looking at how, when we’re stressed, our behaviour is impacted. When we’re stressed our natural tendency is to ignore the feelings that come up in response to it. We plow on ahead and disregard what’s going …
