Matt Smith Personal and Professional Coach

Do one thing

My writing over recent months has been sporadic at best, and I now start my blogs with some kind of apology about why it has been so long between blogs. No apology today, I have had nothing to say for a bit. I could bang on about how much I weigh this week, which IContinue reading “Do one thing”

Another Blog About Weight Loss

After writing my blog last week I was amazed how many people read and responded to it. I normally get 5 or 6 people reading my blogs. But I suppose it resonated for people. Why am I writing another blog so soon about my weight loss journey? Not much could have changed in just aContinue reading “Another Blog About Weight Loss”

A blog about weight loss.

Today I thought I would write about me and my weight. During the summer I decided to start a diet so I downloaded a calorie counting app and started counting my calories all was going well, I was starting to lose weight, but what I found was the progress was slow and my motivation wasContinue reading “A blog about weight loss.”

Do we all need to take a moment to reflect

I have been contemplating writing a blog for a few weeks now. Normally the idea to write again comes to me just as I am going to sleep. I have some brilliant ideas to write about, then I fall asleep and lose them all. There are quite a few things I would like to talkContinue reading “Do we all need to take a moment to reflect”

Being an imperfect leader is inevitable

Whenever I scroll through LinkedIn always see those posts about being a leader, you know the ones 7 ways to be a more emotionally intelligent leaders, 5 things to do to create psychological safety. You get the gist. To be fair I have written a couple of blogs along the same lines. But these postsContinue reading “Being an imperfect leader is inevitable”

A blog about love

If you know me you no how soppy I can be, and I will often talk about love in a work setting. If you don’t know me you are probably wandering what the hell I am going on about. Am I encouraging workplace romances? No I am not, that is another blog entirely. Before IContinue reading “A blog about love”

Leading a values based life (connecting with the present)

Slowing our thinking As I mentioned in the previously the neocortex is never going to act faster than the reptilian and mammalian brains. They are designed to react to keep us safe. The problem is they are rather blunt and indiscriminate. Professor Steve Peters bundled them together into the Chimp to describe how they bothContinue reading “Leading a values based life (connecting with the present)”

Leading a values based life (introvert or extravert, thinker or feeler?)

Here is my third and last instalment this week from my Connected Living project. This chapter encourages you to consider your persona and where you preferences lay. This chapter helps us appreciate that we are never binary (one thing or another) but a complicated and often situational. There is not a better way of being,Continue reading “Leading a values based life (introvert or extravert, thinker or feeler?)”

Leading a values based life (understanding shame and vulnerability)

As I promised yesterday here is the second instalment of the latest iteration of my Connected Living Project. I touched on shame and vulnerability last week in relation to me writing this blog. We see shame everyday at work, showing up in defensive and divisive behaviours, every time we look at the media we seeContinue reading “Leading a values based life (understanding shame and vulnerability)”

Leading a Value’s Based Life (an antidote to a shitty few weeks)

The past few weeks have tough. I cannot put my finger on one thing, there is just a lot of noise in the system at work and outside of work that is conspiring to narrow my bandwidth. Talking to people over the past few weeks it is not just me that is feeling this wayContinue reading “Leading a Value’s Based Life (an antidote to a shitty few weeks)”