Knowing you need to work on your deeply held belief system doesn't help when you just need buck up and get that report written by 3pm.

Here is a selection of short-term wins to help you overcome procrastination in the moment.

I’m not afraid to admit I steal my best ideas from my clients…

It is irrefutably important that you offer the people in your life (work and play) psychological safety.

If you decide to speak to them about anything anywhere near approaching the EQ spectrum you’ll likely get a pat on the back and something like "worse things happen at sea!"

Yeah, cheers Bob.

But what if you’re the Bob?

"See, this is your problem" snarled the scorpion, "always the victim. Always finding the downside. Over there we would both benefit! Over there we would both be our better selves!”

There are things that all of us expect once we become pregnant – a bit of sickness, swollen ankles, stretch marks – but in my childless naivety, I had absolutely no idea how hard the first trimester would hit, and how much it would impact my business.

Procrastination is rarely actually a time management issue, and instead more to do with our deeply held beliefs, values and fears.

HOWEVER, knowing you need to work on your deeply held belief system doesn't help when you just need buck up and get that report written by 3pm.

Here is a selection of short-term wins to help you overcome procrastination in the moment.

Sometimes these changes can creep in over years, leaving you one day looking at your partner and pondering who they are and what happened to the other guy.

Other times these changes can hit us like a ton of bricks, brought about by a shock situation which has left us seeing them in an entirely different light.

My inner child (definitely an Emma) is a stroppy, messy little gobshite. She craves attention, loves chaos, and permanently has scraped knees and something indistinguishable stuck in her hair. She’s a sweet kid, she’s good fun, and big-hearted but my god is she needy.

During the winter before COVID existed, when I was newly divorced and had no dreams of coaching, I felt lost and alone in the world and so attempted my first silent meditation retreat in Kent with a good friend to see if I could find something of what I needed.

We all have ideas of what resilience is and isn’t (some very misguided, by the way!), and we all desperately want more of it, but most of us have very little concept of whether we already have it.

I would meet hundreds of people at an event (many of whom were weird, horny or both) and so I quickly learned how to sidestep conversations politely where needed

A friend and her husband are going through a rough patch. Well, I say *they* are going through a rough patch, it’s only really her going through the patch – he’s totally oblivious. And that in a nutshell is the reason for the rough patch.

I sat on the bed and thought ‘what now?’ and there was nothing.

I felt so, so flat.

Everything they tell you about working for yourself is by and large true. It is exhilarating, it’s fulfilling, it’s tough and empowering. It really, really is.

But what they don’t warn you about is the loneliness.

A lot of people who know me think that I love being the centre of attention. And they would be wrong. Well kind of. Let me explain.

I was sitting in a café in Kent, lockdown had just started lifting, my business was really beginning to blossom, high on too much caffeine and desperate to tell someone my latest realisation.