Love your career & build your dream life
Blog by Elsa Hogan
If you’ve ever tried to support someone who feels stuck in their career, you’ll know it can be a delicate situation to navigate. You want to help, but you don’t want to say the wro...
When I look back at my own career, there are two decisions that stand out as true turning points.
The first was leaving the British Army, where I was an AH-64 Apache Helicopter Te...
Did you know that one of my biggest frustrations is when I hear people moan on and on about how they hate their job, their colleagues, their employer, they don’t get paid enough, t...
“You are not good enough.”
“They will find out you are rubbish... you fraud.”Â
“You will 100% fail (so don’t even bother trying).”
If these thoughts have ever crossed your mind,...
If you improved one thing in your life by just 1% each day, where would you be by the end of the year?
Here's the maths: a 1% improvement compounded daily for a full year makes yo...
Have you ever been away on a training course and felt like you made more progress in 48 hours than you had in months?
Maybe it was the energy in the room, the buzz of ideas and th...
We are heading towards August. The sun is shining, the BBQs are in full swing, and those long summer evenings feel like a well-earned exhale. And yes - you absolutely deserve the b...
Maybe you’ve said it….
“I’m scared to fail.”
Yep, I have been there. I remember it at school, and in pretty much every job I have had, plus being a parent, daughter and partner f...
You want to launch into something new, a new job, a new company, maybe a new investment. Â
You don’t quite know what it looks like, only that it is different from where you are no...
You are ready to go for it - the new job, the promotion, a change of industry, start the side hustle, whatever “it” is for you.Â
And then the little voice in your head creeps in w...
My misery and frustration in life started slowly.Â
It got harder to get out of bed, harder to find excitement in what I did, but it ebbed and flowed. Some days were worse than oth...
I was speaking to my parents a few weeks ago, and the conversation took me back to the core of so many conversations I have with coaching clients.
Their generation had a clear for...
Did you know the average adult spends more than 50% of their waking life at work?
Is it really too much to want to enjoy it?!
Maybe you used to love what you do. Maybe it still l...
 You know that feeling when your laptop opens... and your soul closes?
You used to care. You stayed late, you gave your best ideas, you actually wanted to grow. But now?
Now you ...
You wake up, hit snooze (twice), drink a coffee, and mentally brace yourself for another day of meetings, deadlines, and quietly wondering:
“Is this really it?”
On paper, you hav...
So you have an idea, something exciting, something that could take your career to the next level. You are ready to act. But then, that nagging voice creeps in:
“Who do you think y...