Clare Josa | Author And Keynote Speaker

UK's Foremost Imposter Syndrome Expert, International Keynote Speaker & 8x Author

Clare Josa

Extreme conference calling…

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Practise what you preach, girl!

That’s what I’ve been reminding myself this evening.

conference callI was taking part in an important, 15 person conference call from home (UK) with people in The States. The schedule meant the call would clash with what we lovingly call “The Witching Hour”- the hour before the kids’ bedtime. But I arranged our day so they would be calm and Theo would probably sleep through it. Louis is generally good at amusing himself if needed with a few good jigsaws and his train tracks. So all was looking good.

20 minutes into the call, Theo decides to scream so loudly they could hear him (literally) from the USA to Australia. Then Louis – always the picture of health – vomits. Twice. I spend the rest of the hour cleaning up and consoling the boys, whilst listening with half an ear to the call via the internet in the background.

So how did I react? [Read more…] about Extreme conference calling…

What Are You Thinking?

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What are you thinking?

Just stop for a moment to find out. A few seconds of quiet is all it takes to work out what’s going on in your head.

If you could put those thoughts into words, what would they say?

Are they positive, encouraging and happy or (much more likely, alas!) a critical commentary of what’s around you?

Stream of consciousnessI vividly remember an exercise we did at school on “Stream of Consciousness”. It’s amazing I can remember something so clearly from so long ago as my remaining post-children brain cells often struggle to cope with what day of the week it is nowadays, so it must have made an impact on me. The teacher got us to write down everything we were thinking, for 5 minutes, completely unedited.

Then, having bared our souls on paper, she did make some of us read it out, which I remember with horror. But anyway… The point of the exercise is that your hand can’t move fast enough. Almost all of us started with “I don’t know what to write…” but we soon tapped in to what was going on inside our heads and it was illuminating. [Read more…] about What Are You Thinking?

Let It Go…

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How much of our time do we spend feeling annoyed by something someone else has said or done?

Maybe it was a passing comment or a snide remark? Or maybe they did something really unacceptable and we just keep going over and over the event in our head.

Without realising, whatever they said or did has taken over our mood and we can’t seem to shift it. We’re just spiralling deeper and deeper into whatever our personal favourite yucky emotional state is.

Let It Go…Letting it go is easy to say, particularly when we feel stuck. Yet it can make a profound difference to our state of mind – and our day in general.

If you need help to let it go, this visualisation works well. [Read more…] about Let It Go…

Where Do I Start?

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Where Do I Start?Isn’t it weird how it can be so hard to start writing on a blank page (or computer screen!), yet once the first few words are down, it seems to flow much more easily.

It’s as though the blankness makes the task seem somehow more enormous, more overwhelming than it might otherwise be. And those few friendly words that start the first sentence are like taking the first, gentle step towards your goal.

And changing your life is like that.

While you’re sat there, thinking about everything that’s going wrong, worrying about why it’s not working and feeling fed up about how hard you’ve tried, yet you’re still going round on the same hampster wheel, it’s unlikely you’ll feel motivated to get up and get started, sorting things out.

Yet there’s something simple that can really help.

[Read more…] about Where Do I Start?

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