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...
by Su Birch | September 15, 2020 | Confidence, Emotions, Health, Vitality, Winning
Breathing is one of the simplest and most effective ways of managing stress, anxiety and general feelings of uptightness. We don’t think about breathing- we take in about 23000 breaths a day and never pay it any attention. But when we are stressed or anxious...
by Su Birch | September 13, 2019 | Confidence, Emotions
Yesterday I was sitting at the hairdressers and on the wall next to me was a large advertising poster. It was of a beautiful young woman with gorgeous hair and with her arms up, exposing her underarms. But what extraordinarily perfect underarms! I couldn’t stop...
