Imagination; A Power Tool Used to Build Authentic Vision!  

Have you ever stopped to watch a child fully immersed in imaginative play? 

There are forts, tea parties, dinosaur races and whole worlds of limitless possibilities. 

Most children have crystal clear vision. They can tell you what they want to be when they grow up, all the names of their friends real or imagined. The child naturally has a thirst for life. Wake up, play hard- do it again the next day.

What about adults? What about women with responsibilities? Do we shut ourselves off to the world of possibilities available to us by neglecting the power of our imagination and strength of our passions and desires? 

Pablo Picasso once said: “If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!”

He was tapping into HIS expression of a wild horse seen and created through HIS imagination. His horse was...

I'm here for you and I want us to be here for each other

We are facing unprecedented times.

We are in a state of upheaval.

We are being faced with decisions and dilemmas that are causing us to question so much we previously took for granted. 

And it feels hard and scary. 

Let's do it together - Come and join me in my Facebook group where I will be offering support and Live Q&A sessions over the coming weeks and months.

Living and Leading Authentically Facebook Group

Tell me specifically what you want to be supported with and I'll help you in anyway I can.

See you in there, Mel x

As I sat waiting in the coffee shop, I was overflowing with anxiety and emotion. Tears brimmed from my eyes and I was shaking like a leaf... Yet underneath the surface I had accepted what I needed to do. Now I had to follow through on that and say the words out loud.

It was about to become one of my life's greatest defining moments. 

I knew that by saying the words out loud I was giving them form, making them real and that through uttering them I would open Pandora’s box… And deep down I had a knowing that my career and professional life as I knew it would be forever changed - but I had no idea what that would look like. 

So I waited for my boss to arrive and steadied myself to bring my failure full circle and admit defeat.

It was a HUGE admission.

I had spent all my energy holding things together for soooooo long to AVOID failure and now I was about to agree with all my critics - that indeed I wasn’t up to the...

Charlie (the glue guy) is reading a book right now about homeschooling. It’s called The Call of the Wild and Free. I bought him it for Xmas as it sounded like the type of thing he’d like (I was right, he does!) 

Anyway, we got to chatting about a point made within the book about the rationale or need for kids to receive homework, something neither of us had thought to question until now. *Warning - personal and possibly controversial viewpoints coming up!*

The point made within the book was why would you need to give children more work to do at home in their own time when they spend 7 hours a day, 5 days a week at school learning? 

Hmmm - indeed when you stop to consider the rationale it doesn’t make sense… 

It immediately started a lively conversation in our kitchen - 

• Was the teaching system so inefficient that they couldn’t fit all of the education into the allocated time?

• Why...