Karen Carpenter Coaching

Merry Christmas one & all. 🎄🙂👋

Small Group Coaching for entrepreneurs & small business owners. Priced to be affordable for those on limited budgets. Details below.

Big thank you to all those who came along to the two launch dates of 'Let's Talk About . . .' where we kicked off with a conversation about Success, what this means to each of us, how our own knowledge & behaviour, in combination with external factors, contribute to our feeling of success, & what we might do more, or less, of to achieve/maintain that feeling.

Small group coaching priced to be affordable to small business owners on a limited budget. Workbook pages provided in advance to get the thinking started & capture emerging thoughts

Fancy joining us next time? Evening & lunch time options available, details below.

Apparently, today is World Giraffe Day - celebrating the tallest mammal on the planet. Did you know, giraffes are rarer than elephants? They are also amongst the species requiring the least sleep, making do on just 30 minutes a day. They eat for up to 18 hours a day and will leave calves in a creche with designated babysitter whilst they roam.

To learn more about giraffes and what we can learn as leaders from the adaptive behaviour of animals in the wild, check out my success collection at Karen Carpenter Events

https://www.karencarpenterevents.com/success-collection

Wherever you may be - I wish you a healthy, happy, peaceful and prosperous new year!

Merry Christmas!

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How much do yo utrust your auto-pilot to keep you on course?

No, that’s not an error you see before you – on this occasion, it is fully intentional because this little ‘typo’ is flagging up something interesting.

Like many business people, when it comes to typing, I consider myself to be fairly competent, even to the point - when I know what I want to say – that I could almost describe myself as speedy. Unsurprisingly though, the faster I type, the less accurate my typing becomes, requiring regular spell checks and a final, thorough proof-read before finally submitting my musings to the judgement of my intended audience.

Nothing unusual in this, of course - we all make mistakes and, mostly, we take action to mitigate these mistakes, particularly when it is business critical. But - here comes the interesting bit.

Whilst most of my typos are entirely random, scattered throughout the text in no discernible pattern, there is one particular error that comes up time, after time, after time. In fact, it would be true to say that it happens many more times than it doesn’t. My fingers, it seems, have acquired the very unhelpful habit of typing the word ‘yo u’ like this! Pretty much every single time!!

In other words, when it comes to the word ‘you’, my unconsciously competent self – the auto-pilot we all rely on to keep us working at optimum capacity - has seemingly gone rogue and is repeatedly letting me down!! And, in letting me down, it is costing me time.

The good thing is - now that I am aware - I am taking steps to correct this, switching off the auto-pilot and bringing my typing back into the realms of conscious activity, in which state I can gradually retrain my brain to type ‘you’ as ‘you’ and not as ‘yo u’!

It won’t happen over-night but, with time and purposeful practice, I am confident it won’t be long until I can, once again, trust myself to type at speed without watching every key I strike.

But, whilst I have a strategy in place to replace one unconscious habit with something more resourceful, my mind is already pondering the question - where else might my auto-pilot be leading me astray? What other unconscious habits have developed over the years that are slowing me down, or holding me back?

And, with that thought, I’m curious – what is your automatic pilot up to when yo uare (real typo here – more practice needed) not paying full attention?