Leading AT Your Post: When You Can’t Withdraw But Can’t Continue at 100%

Operating in difficult times – You’re still showing up, but you’re running on fumes This month’s Field Notes is Part 2 of the Wartime Leadership series. If you’re in peacetime right now, feel free to skip this one — or save it for when the storms come (and they will). But if you identified with […]
Peacetime vs Wartime Leadership: When Your Foundation is Shaking

Most leadership advice assumes peacetime. But what if you’re in wartime? How to lead when you’re depleted, broken, or rebuilding. For leaders in crisis
November 2025: 6 Months of Evolution: Where Your Life Caddy is Headed

introducing Field Notes for Leaders – why, what is it and where is it going?
Blog 65: How to Spot Confidence Loss in Your Team (Before They Quit)

Discover the 6 early warning signs of employee confidence loss and proven strategies leaders can use to rebuild team confidence before losing top talent.
Blog 64: When You’ve Lost Your Confidence: A Practical Recovery Plan

That’s a horrible feeling, isn’t it? One moment you’re performing well, the next you’re second-guessing everything. Maybe you bombed a presentation. Maybe you missed a critical deadline. Maybe someone’s feedback hit you harder than expected. Whatever triggered it, now you’re stuck wondering if you ever had what it takes. If you’ve lost your confidence at […]
Blog 53: Digging Wells: One Year of Caddying Posts and the Journey Ahead

©Franciscan Media “Let’s begin again for up to now we’ve done nothing” – St Francis of Assisi Post 53 marks a year of post writing and i thought it may help others to capture this process and the evolution of caddying, these posts and now podcasts with the evolution of the Life Caddy Minute. In […]
Blog 57: I’ve lost all my drive in life. I know that discipline matters, but how do I get moving when I just don’t feel like it?

©Appreciation at Work This blog is for those who are crying out for this kind of help . . . It sounds like your get up and go has just gone. Let’s first try and understand how you got to this place, then (in PART 2), we’ll provide you some strategies to kick start you […]
Blog 8: Why am I always saying sorry? I feel like I am always making mistakes and am never good enough. PART 3 – Anything else I can do?

Yep. There are a range of things i’d like to leave you with in this three-part series. The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to…failure. John Maxwell, Falling Forward Your life caddy Your life caddy . . . when you need coaching, whether that’s life coaching, business coaching, […]
Blog 7: Why am I always saying sorry? I feel like I am always making mistakes and am never good enough. PART 2 – Enter the pocket sheet

i hope the work you did in blogs 55 to 58 on balancing work and vacation served you well over the Easter break . . . and that you had a good break. Last week we squeezed the oranges; made the most out of your mistakes and errors and letting go of them. You’ve been […]
Blog 6: Why am I always saying sorry? I feel like I am always making mistakes and never good enough.

I am such a klutz. Why am I always saying sorry? Every day just feels like another mistake I have made, an event I am late to, a client who is unhappy or something else I have dropped. What’s wrong with me? To those who feel like they don’t measure up and are often making […]