With your basic needs covered, how do you know what you really want? Many of us are occasionally immersed in a fight with different competing desires: enjoy our dream job far from home or stay home in a less appealing job, be sleep or get up early to work out, pizza or salad. How can …
This time of the year. It’s a time to look back, and a time to look forward. Time to acknowledge things that made us happy, and also to reconsider others that should be changed. Above all, it’s time to say thank you, and be close to those we love. For many of us, this time …
After having a great conversation (in Spanish) about fear of change, I feel inspired to share with you some of my learnings. To be honest, learning from others while having a talk is one of my favourite ways to do it: an effortless way to make me consider other ideas on the topic. What is …
Not everything in boosting diversity is about the behaviour of the leader. All of us, especially if we are part of a minority group, should take responsibility in promoting it. What can we do? To make an impact, confidence is critical. There are many things that can diminish the confidence in our contribution, such lack …
Who is the person that talk to you the most? Take a minute and think about it. It’s not your partner, nor your boss. The person who most talk to you is you. That inner dialogue conditions and shapes your views about yourself and could actually diminish your potential, skills and capabilities. That’s why it’s …
First time someone told me ‘less is more’, I was a kid, and it was a friend of my parents explaining why having myself covered with many fake rings, bracelets and collars was not a good idea: ‘nothing shines if you don’t make the space’. Some years later, at the office, a guy simply had …
When I started forming as a coach, one of the things that caught me the most was the question ‘what is the 2% of truth?’. That question always makes me stop and think: what is true about what you were saying? What if you were slightly right? What could be that? The effects of this …
People develop their ethics as a result of an accumulation of values transmitted by family, friends, culture, religion and experience; and ethics are what tells us ‘this is a right behaviour’ or ‘this is a wrong behaviour’. Generally speaking, we all have developed that sense of good or bad. Then, why do people, with values, …
Tony Nadal, coach of Rafa Nadal for many years, said in multiple times: an excuse has never won a match. Keeping in mind that no matter how hard you worked in developing a capacity, a situation could be hard enough for you to not deliver at your highest point of contribution. And then, what happens? …
“The price of being a sheep is boredom. The price of being a wolf is loneliness. Choose one or the other with great care”. What do you choose? This is a quote I love from Hugh MacLeod, creative artist and founder of a company called Gapingvoid and aimed, in their words, “to make work more …
