Conscious Living & Creativity
I’d such a lovely time a while back, chatting with Liz Valloor on Dublin City FM’s Conscious Living Show. If you’d like to listen back (it’s just under thirty minutes long), here’s the podcast link.
Anne Tannam
The Happy Writer
I believe myself that a good writer doesn’t really need to be told anything except to keep at it. — Chinua Achebe If we found it easy to follow Achebe’s advice, we’d all be smiling and successful writers but from experience we know the opposite is true: ‘keeping at it’ is a struggle for many writers, whether …
Show me the money!
One of the hardest lessons I’ve learned in my professional and creative life is that no one will value my work and expertise unless I do. As a creative, I struggle, alongside many of my peers to see the commercial value in my work when the market is so quick to ask for it for …
Who sets the height of your bar?
Recently at my coaching clinic a writer who’d come along to tackle her lack of self-confidence, explained that every time she wrote a new piece, immediately after the pleasure of creating it dissipated, she began comparing her work to other writers. Judging her work not to be of an acceptable standard, she lost confidence in …
Love’s not just for Valentine’s Day
It’s Valentine’s Day today and later this morning I’ll be doing a Valentine-themed reading in the RDS library. I’m really looking forward to that, but I’m not looking forward to beating my way through the thousands of ads encountered during the day that suggest the only way to express true love is though the purchase …
More Time Please
I’m currently beat into a book called Sapiens which strives to record the potted history of our particular branch of the genus Homo. It’s a fascinating read on many levels but as a coach I was particularly struck by Harari’s comments on how, since the Agricultural Revolution approximately 10,000 years ago, we’re often ending up …
Out with the old, in with the new
Tomorrow a new year begins. Hard to believe, isn’t it? (we say that every year, but it’s true every year!) Here’s a few tips to increase our chances of setting and achieving realistic goals for a happier and healthier self for the year ahead: Our brains are programmed to respond to positive commands. For example, …