I really hope you are feeling good on this blowy October Thursday. Sometimes I become consumed by the minutia of life. I worry about the small stuff, I get absorbed in things I have no control over. I find myself forgetting that there is a big wide world out there with billions …
Welcome to autumn – wow what a quick turn around from that gorgeous summer we were having. I’ve been running and meditating and reading and yoga-ing more regularly lately and have been reminded just how important it is to keep an ongoing self-care practice. Here are some tools and strategies, some of …
When I was working for a charity a few years ago, supporting women who had survived domestic and other forms of abuse, I used to find myself going to ridiculous limits to make sure I’d done my job perfectly. I used to get off the phone to the people I was supporting …
There is a beautiful spiral staircase analogy that describes our journey through life. It says we start at the bottom, and as we move up the staircase we eventually find ourselves at the same point, but raised up to the next level. The idea is that as we walk through life we …
We have a different look here at Bird! We have gone through a re-brand, and although I wasn’t at the helm of the re-design, being a part of the creative process was a really exciting time. Being creative (which by the way EVERYONE is in one way or another, we seem to …
A really great article that sums up burn out came up in the Harvard Business Review. The author, Monique Valcour gives a clear and robust overview of what burn out is, and how we can build resilience to combat it. Valcour advises prioritising taking care of yourself to replenish personal resources, and …
Since the start of this year Bird has been delivering an ever increasing programme of training, workshops and presentations. Last night we were delivering a presentation on resilience for www.iamenterprises.co.uk to a group of 40 people in the non profit and public sectors. It was a brilliant experience and the topic resonated enormously …
Wow what a scorcher – in some parts of the UK today it is 30 degrees – super warm for our normally cool and cloudy country. If you’re in it, I hope you’re enjoying it. So I came across this brilliant talk by Ruby Wax at the School of Life. Ruby talks …
I’ve been loving the Olympics, as I always do. I’m actually obsessed; I weep when the athletes win, I weep when they lose, I check the medal table like it’s social media and I look back to gangly 12 year old me and wonder what could have been. (I ran with an …
I have a desk in a studio in Brighton where I do my computer based work -marketing and admin and the like. I was walking over here this morning and I could hear one or two gremlins knocking around making me fearful about one or two things. In the past I might …
