How to work from home successfully
So you've got a new job or you're starting a new business - and you are going to do it all from home. How lovely! Or is it? Working from home is not always the sunnier option. If you are not careful, it can seep into every aspect of your life making all aspects...
How my Instagram videos will be changing this year
Some readers of these posts may already also be following my weekly videos on Instagram (@alicejohnsenlifecoach). If so, you will be familiar with the current format that is a weekly posting of a minute long video offering you just a few thoughts or tips for the...
New or Expanding Business? Here’s how I can help you.
Starting a new business or building on a current initiative? Exciting times - and daunting ones. Whether you are setting up something from scratch now your children are old enough or building up a going concern, having some objective support from a life coach can...
Those Difficult Conversations
Difficult Conversations - we all have them. Now and then. When we absolutely have to. You know the sort I mean, the one where we have to break bad news to someone or raise an awkward issue. We have to tell a friend something we (either just us or a group of...
Life Coaching and Divorce
Earlier this month I spent some time with two Family Law Partners at Trethowans in Salisbury. Trethowans is one of the leading law firms in the South West and as such are pathing the way in practising Collaborative Law - a dispute resolution path first introduced to...
Summer Thinking
At last, it's raining. Not only does this mean some much needed grass should grow so my sheep might stop 'wandering off' but it also means I find myself at my desk which is a place I have avoided for the last 3 weeks almost completely. That's been, quite frankly,...
“Look to this day”
I came across this poem at a really wonderful memorial service recently and wanted to share it so you can read it and use it to re-focus on the important things in your world this week. Look to this day for it is life the very life of life. In its brief course lie all...
The Scruton tapes – how they should make us consider our own social media use
A few weeks' ago, Sir Roger Scruton became the latest victim of a smear campaign played out on Twitter which capitulated in his being fired by the government from his post as unpaid chairman of a government quango, "Building Better, Building Beautiful" . This was all...
Throwing Away The To Do List
To Do Lists - I LOVE them. I use them in my own life and I use them with clients a LOT. Clients who are starting up new businesses or clients who want to improve their work/life balance or clients who want to improve the structure of their everyday life - all sorts...
Stress Management for Parents, anyone?
Over the past few years I have worked with schools and school children privately on Stress Management. The most common age group I work with is 11 - 13 year olds but that is not exclusive and all the things I discuss will help and support parents of children of any...