Remembering my Great Grandfather Emil Kornitzer. Last month, on Holocaust Memorial Day, I wrote how losing family in the Holocaust created deep sorrow and trauma for my grandmother but from this grew resilience and determination. It remains important to me that we do not forget those murdered. Born on the 27th of May 1885, Emil...
My 4 Tips To Move On From Disappointment in your Business One of the hardest things we have to deal with in our personal and business lives is to pick ourselves up after a disappointment. You spend hours and hours writing a grant application, building the partnerships, scoping the programme and you are utterly convinced...
Have you ever been asked to apologise for something that you don’t feel you should have to apologise for? I suspect this rings a bell for most of us, but what did you choose to do? A few years ago I found myself in this situation at work and I was absolutely adamant I had done...
How many of you are too bashful to post about the great work you are achieving? How many of you find it easier to celebrate the success of everyone else and not your own? People can’t celebrate with you unless you tell them about it! What is stopping you sharing your success? Is it a fear of...
When I started writing daily in January 2019, while I knew I wanted to create a writing habit, to improve as a writer, I had no idea that I would sustain it for a full year. I have written and published daily. Yippee!! I am so proud of myself. What have I learned? Habits. There...
I have had one hell of a decade as I moved out of employed and the NHS to running my own businesses. I have continued to enjoy so many new experiences this year and I am proud of what I have achieved. Today I have taken some time to recognise and celebrate some of my...
When you look me in the eye and still don’t smile. How a beautiful Christmas Poinsettia can shed most of its leaves within days of it moving into our house. How the 20 plus people on the train today who continued to sit for six stops watching the two smallest children in our carriage stand...
I really enjoyed an interview on BBC Radio 5 Live that Nihal Arthanayake had with Rachel Chinouriri. Rachel is a 19 year old singer/songwriter from Croydon and her family are from Zimbabwe. She is the youngest child in a large family and the only one to be born in England. She shared how, in her...
This is my third blog topic of the night. Do you ever start something creative and realise you are just not feeling it? That’s been me for the last hour. It was the same yesterday morning. I’m unsure if it’s tiredness, hormones, a combination of the two or something else, but I have experienced a...
16 November 2019 Accepting that I have started my journey to menopause is scary despite the fact I am fortunate to know where to get some of the best advice around. My work as a business mentor has led me to be around people who are experts in this field so unlike many women, I...
