Author Archives: Simon | The School of Purpose

Are you searching high and low, trying to find your mystical place? I was having dinner with my sister recently when she asked me this question. The conversation had been around our levels of satisfaction in our current role’s, she is a director and partner in a business, and me wanting to be running my […]

Ideally these aren’t the words you want to be saying at any time in your life, let alone in your job, where it happens more often than I would like it to. Being the optimistic introvert that I am, I am also glad that I had the chance to at least say, or scream those […]

Those voices in your head, you have heard them for years, the ones that stop you from doing what you want to be doing, or the ones that make what you want to be doing, so much harder than it needs to be. You might be wanting to speak on stage, write that book, starting […]

Do the people in your life, the ones closest to you, do they motivate and support you to do more and get out there and go for it, or do they support your fears and self-doubt?You think you can’t do whatever ‘it’ is, or you might be sitting on the fence, trying to convince yourself […]

We are strange creatures us human beings. We are quick to encourage and support others, yet when we need the same support, we tell ourselves the opposite.  Think of any children in your life, either your kids or a niece or nephew.  How often do you remind them they can do something that they think […]

We doubt ourselves to protect us from the criticism that has hurt us in the past, and may still hurt us today.  We doubt ourselves to save us from any potential embarrassment or judgement from others, or even more importantly from ourselves, based on what we might do wrong. The crazy thing is this, that […]

Since the start of the year, I have been sharing my thoughts on overcoming self-doubt on my instagram TV channel ‘Daily Purpose’. At the start of the year, I wasn’t sure how it would go, or if I would enjoy sharing over instagram TV, so I decided to start it anyway, and try something different. […]

Do you give yourself a real chance of love? As human beings we go through so much struggle to find the ‘one’ person we are supposed to be with for life. But when it doesn’t work out, does your world fall apart? This is a much easier message to write from the comfort of a […]

Here’s how you ended up right where you are. At some point early on in your life, somebody laughed at you. Someone told you that you don’t have the ability to do it, or you decided somewhere in your brain that because they laughed at the one thing you got wrong, all of the things […]

At what point is it when you have had enough? When do you finally get so mad at yourself for always making it right for everyone else, always making time for everyone else, and for saying yes to anything they ask of you. You are tired of always doing what feels like the right thing […]