August 2019 - TXG - Archive

Here’s a question for you to ponder…. If we are what we give our attention to – where is YOUR attention? A worker? A parent? An entrepreneur? An all-rounder? A patient? If you are happy with where your attention is, then that is great but sometimes we can find that … Read more →

A conversation can go to a much deeper level if you have the time, can truly listen and ask three more words… ‘and what else?’ When someone brings you a challenge or is chatting with you about something on their mind, it is important to see if you can get … Read more →

Scully Restaurant 12 Stoney Street, Borough Market, London, SE1 9AD T: 020 7403 7436 www.elliotscafe.com Elliot’s is a small restaurant in Borough Market. We went when it first opened a few years ago but the person we were with was ill, and so it didn’t really feel fair to comment … Read more →

The economist, Manfred Max-Neef Rosenberg says that there are nine self explanatory needs: Affection Creation Recreation Freedom Identity Understanding Participation Protection Subsistence Try and find yourself a moment of quiet and then ask yourself – if you had to give yourself a score out of 10 (10 being a master … Read more →

Scully Restaurant 4 St. James’s Market London SW1Y 4AH T: +44 (0)20 3911 6840 http://www.scullyrestaurant.com/ From a Nopi alumnus comes the first, and likely only, restaurant where ‘the broccoli!’ was our table of 4’s unified cry when asked which dish we enjoyed most.  Now that is a successful dish, given we … Read more →

I have worked with a lot of coaching clients over the years who want to work on their time management and when we get down to the obstacles they may face in resolving their workload, the reluctance to say ‘no’ to someone who asks for something to be done is … Read more →

I recently came across a quote from Churchill that really resonated with me… “People occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” The truth can surely set you free – we’ve probably all heard that said at some … Read more →

As it is the summer months, I thought I’d keep the blogs a little shorter but hopefully they will provoke some thinking but I’d like to share some of the ideas, thoughts and random musings that have come to me over the last month. The first of those is try … Read more →