by Su Birch | October 30, 2025 | Change, Confidence, Goals, learning, Relationships, Vitality
These are great questions to stop and think about, especially if you are stuck. I find ‘What do I not know?’ is a good question when tackling something new or battling to understand someone or something.Find more in my my book #confidence- you can find it...
by Su Birch | October 28, 2025 | Communications, Confidence, Emotions, Goals, Leadership, Management, Winning, Work
Putting up your hand – the art of self-promotion My parents were from Scotland and had been brought up as Calvinists and so, although not particularly religious, they were big into humility. We were taught never to boast and got very little praise for any of our...
by Su Birch | December 2, 2021 | Communication, Confidence, Emotions, Leadership, Management, Meaning, Relationships, Work
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.” Sigmund Freud My parents used to tell me “Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words can never harm you.” What nonsense! It’s words we remember,...
by Su Birch | July 8, 2021 | Confidence, Emotions, Personality, Winning, Work
“Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from taking flight.” Brené Brown I’ll run a mile rather than sing Karaoke. I know I can’t sing in tune- the teachers made me...
by Su Birch | February 19, 2021 | Confidence, Emotions
2.9 Catastrophic thinking “Of all your troubles great a and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” Thomas Carlyle There are many people whose negative thoughts take over, racing ahead to the future with a host of “What if” questions that torment...
by Su Birch | February 4, 2021 | Confidence, Leadership, Management, Winning, Work
I’m sure there isn’t a person anywhere who hasn’t at some stage thought ”I shouldn’t be here. They going to find out I don’t know what I’m doing”. Feeling like a fraud is common and for some people it is almost impossible to shake it off, no matter the situation. The...
