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Do you suffer with bouts of nerves?  Does your stomach turn over at the thought of standing up and talking to people? My heart pounds too! Last week saw the last rehearsal for the comedy night.  I delivered […]

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Am I consciously Competent?  Simple answer? No not yet!    And for those of you who don’t know yet what I’m talking about – let me explain…. In learning we go through 4 stages of competence when learning. […]

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Well, I’m about half way through the comedy challenge now and like most things that start well, there’s a point you reach when things are losing momentum or not going as well.  And that’s where I’m at.  Fortunately […]

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Week after week Francis was critically  given feedback in the Great British Bake Off for putting style over substance.  And Paul Hollywood was right, substance is important in a bakery competition, first impressions do count but if the […]

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Last week’s blog post – “Saying No Can Be Hard To Do” hopefully started you thinking about how difficult it can be to say “No” and why in fact you do this based on your belief system.  This […]

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Fortunately when I ask myself this question, my list of enemies isn’t that long… Yes of course I have annoyed a few people over the years, and of course there are a few people who I have annoyed. […]

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Do you ever wonder why when one thing goes wrong other things keep going wrong? Confidence and self esteem can be fragile things.  Add to this the fact that we are our own worse enemies and probably far […]

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Have you ever had to tackle a difficult conversation? I had to deliver some bad news today.  It wasn’t life threatening stuff, but I had to tell someone close to me that they couldn’t do something.  And it […]

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I’ve talked about confidence rather a lot lately and I thought I’ have a change of tack.  But something happened this morning.  Only one of those very small stupid things but it happened. I’d placed a comment on […]

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Do you ever feel butterflies, shaky or feel sick at the thought of attending certain events?  Today I’m going to offer you my 3 top tips for changing your confidence levels. I attended a networking meeting today, where […]