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 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 […]
Blog 52: That’s a year of caddying blogs – so let’s begin again, for there is so much that can be overcome together
©Good good good And so that is one year of Your life caddy blogs. For those who have journeyed through this past year, i hope you have experienced growth and feel someone ‘gets’ your struggles. The end of this year marks a turning point in the caddying service. Each of the 52 blogs in this […]
Blog 36: When your work environment is just too toxic, but it’s too hard to jump.
©LinkedIn i seem to be bumping into people who are struggling with toxic workplaces and the courage to leave. Some are those who ,are engaging in the caddying process and some are friends, and some are friends engaging in the caddying process. It’s heartbreaking to watch them caught in a cycle where work is difficult […]
August ’23: Climbing ladders. JP’s story of success
JP is currently the Facility Manager for a large company in Fiji. His interview that follows reflects the game of snakes and ladders. This story captures JP’s unfortunate career interruption caused by ill health. While rising to the top (via ladders), a medical diagnosis sent JP tumbling to the bottom (sliding the snake). Be inspired […]
Blog 23: At work social and networking events . . . I always find myself alone, lonely and awkward. That feeling of being left out is so painful. Easing the pain, especially for the introverts . . . and a role for extroverts.
©Inc Magazine i know the feelings that gather when i am at a networking event or workplace social. And it’s a common issue with those who are being caddied. If the context is transactional, everything is OK, but the social anxiety that can arise from networking and social work functions can be humiliating, feeling of […]
Blog 15: I’ve just lost all my confidence, a last word (well, for now) . . . aim higher than competency
Sometimes your confidence is buried in feelings of incompetence. The hope today is you can move past that, by understanding competence and creating a new paradigm. So what is competency? The ability to do something successfully or efficiently Oxford Dictionary 2023 Therefore, incompetency is an inability to do something successfully or efficiently. Often our confidence […]