I heard a quote recently by Theodore Roosevelt which goes as follows: In any situation, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing is the wrong thing, but the worst thing you can do is nothing at all The reason it resonated was in the fact that it reminded me of the logjam that builds up in our minds and our thinking from the obsession with making 'right' decisions. Unfortunately, we are conditioned by society and our schooling to always look for the right answer and we are rewarded if we do and chastised if we get it wrong. It is no wonder we are afraid of making mistakes. This is the reason why creativity is not more to the fore in our daily lives and businesses. As Brene Brown says 'creativity comes from people being vulnerable and risking being wrong in order...

In my 'previous life' I have been an accountant, business consultant, business turnaround specialist and business coach, and I have been self-employed in one form or another for over 25 years.   So, why would I now want to make a dramatic shift and start something completely different such as providing teaching courses and coaching the people who own and run the businesses, in my early fifties and effectively try to build a new enterprise from scratch?  Well the truth is that it is not such a big shift in terms of the nature of the work, rather it is more of a shift in terms of the marketing and delivery, but it is still a big challenge and risk. However, my work has always been about people and that is the aspect in each of my career phases that I always enjoyed, I just didn't always...