6 weeks ago I started on the Couch to 5k app, my goal to run a race for life this year. Yesterday after running for 25 minutes non stop my “coach” Michael Johnson declared ‘you can call yourself a runner now’! What a powerful statement to say to 55 year old me. In the...
People will often ask me about confidence and age. Does confidence develop with time, is there a point that our confidence starts to decline? Confidence may vary with age but growth certainly isn’t a straight line. There are some well publicised and quite worrying...
I have noticed over the last 12 months or so that I have joined a new club. Its called the “women of a certain age” club. I dont know how I joined it, have no idea what the criteria was to join and to be honest I have no idea what age “a certain...
Watching the new last night I was shocked that in the space of 5 minutes, two separate news stories highlighted to me how important it is to value others, building confidence in those around us. In a story about mistakes being made in breast screening, a woman in her...
100 years from when (some) women in the UK got the vote, and in the week of International Womens Day it seems only appropriate to think about the importance of role models. A role model is someone who inspires you and exhibits the behaviours, values and abilities you...
I have always found the phrase work-life balance to be a little misleading. The immediate thought that comes to mind is a set of scales, evenly weighted on both sides, but that implies some sort of 50:50 split of time, energy etc, and I don’t know many people whose...
