Have you ever received a love letter? Try to remember how it made you feel. I’m guessing it was a moment of bliss, joy, thankfulness, excitement and no doubt a range of other positive emotions.

The way you start your day has a huge impact on the way you finish it. Think about those times where you sleep through your alarm, skip breakfast, rush to get ready, miss the train, and forget something really important.

As soon as we enter school, our lives are marked out by beginnings and endings, exams and grades, and the expectation of performance gets in the way of living in the moment.

What makes a great goal? This might seem a little bit obvious, but if coaching has taught me anything it’s this: not all goals are created equal. When it comes to setting and successfully achieving goals, there’s much more to it than simply picking something we want to do and feeling motivated. We have to go a little deeper.

In this blog post, I want to move from the topic of what you desire to how to get what you desire. John Lennon famously wrote the lyric, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." This poignantly speaks to the reality that the majority of our lives consists of the 99% of experiences that happen between the big achievements we work toward.

What does it mean to be successful? With mainstream ways of working increasingly under scrutiny, ‘define your own success’ is fast becoming the mantra of career liberation.

The Oxford dictionary defines perfectionism as “the refusal to accept any standard short of perfection.” I have to say, I feel kind of stressed just reading this description! As a recovering perfectionist, I remember this mindset more than I’d like to admit.

At the end of the year, I often get asked what I think about New Year's Resolutions. People want to know what the best way is to set goals and whether I know a secret to actually sticking to them.