Author Archives: Matt Smith Personal and Professional Coach

Preparing For The Next Round of Clinical Supervision and Rumbling With Rumbles

This week has been a week has been a week of creating visions for the future and laying down some plans for making those visions a reality. The week started with an afternoon meeting with the inspirational Janis to discuss plans for training Nurses in Compassionate Clinical Supervision. This year we are introducing new trainersContinue reading “Preparing For The Next Round of Clinical Supervision and Rumbling With Rumbles”

So What Happened To January?

Most years January is torture. It goes on forever, it is cold, dark and miserable and everyone is skint after being paid in the middle of December. This year however I blinked and missed it. Now the weather has not been great, it was as dark as any other January, and there was definitely tooContinue reading “So What Happened To January?”

Just The Tonic

As you know I have been a little fed up over the past couple of weeks. In my previous blog I mentioned the tonic of being coached for my well-being which was truly excellent. Then on Thursday morning I woke up to this song on my Spotify. There is nothing better than hearing something oneContinue reading “Just The Tonic”

We all need a bit of coaching, if only to keep our well-being in check

If you are a regular reader of my blog or know me, you will know that for part of my working week I lead the coaching network at my place of work. We are a fledgling network, so therefore we are still training our coaches. We currently have 2 cohorts running and by the endContinue reading “We all need a bit of coaching, if only to keep our well-being in check”

Thank you Foggy….I think

I have not felt great this week, it has been one of those weeks, where I have just felt out of sorts. Nothing I could really put my finger on, just a bit down on my self. I didn’t notice my mood until Thursday when I reached the bottom of my mood. This is oftenContinue reading “Thank you Foggy….I think”

Lets think about the impact we have on others

Everything seems a little frantic at the moment. Feelings are running high and there are a lot of people letting their emotions doing their thinking. Every time I turn on the news I hear people abusing each other whether that is politicians or world leaders abusing each other or overreacting or protesters shouting abuse atContinue reading “Lets think about the impact we have on others”

What is Connected Living and What Can It Do For You?

As you will know I have been banging on about Connected Living for quite some time. It is something I came up with in the summer inspired by some wonderful writers. It is has become an obsession of mine. I am writing a book about it, I have written a presentation and talk on it,Continue reading “What is Connected Living and What Can It Do For You?”

So what is next?

2019 is nearly a week old. Last week I looked back on what I had achieved in 2018, so this week I thought I would look forward to what 2019 might have in store for me. The most pressing issue I have on my mind, is to further develop my connected living project. Well thatContinue reading “So what is next?”