Focus on Commitment
‘Commitment is an act, not a word.’ Jean-Paul Sartre Two years ago, I decided to launch a weekly newsletter in the form of Friday Focus....
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Amy Rowlinson
- Aug 5
- 2 min
Focus on Imperfection
What does it mean to be imperfect in a world that idolises and seeks perfection? It has taken me decades to realise that perfection is...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jul 29
- 1 min
Focus on Personal Development
How do you practice personal development? Considering myself to be late to the party of personal development in my early forties, I threw...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jul 22
- 2 min
Focus on Lifestyle
Looking out of the bedroom window as I write this, I can see the morning sun cast its light across the tops of the trees and the...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jul 15
- 2 min
Focus on Movement
Is it possible to move and dance like you are at one with the world where you feel as light as a feather completely free as a bird? Yes,...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jul 8
- 2 min
Focus on Games
Fun, fun, fun! Games are not just for kids and certainly not just for Christmas or the summer holidays! I love playing all sorts of...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jul 1
- 2 min
Focus on Networks
Network events; love them or hate them? I love them. I thrive meeting new people, picking up where I left off with old acquaintances or...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jun 24
- 3 min
Focus on Genius
This week, Lysette Offley in Focus on WHY episode 284 The Genius Maker said that ‘we’re all geniuses’ and I have been reflecting on this...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jun 10
- 2 min
Focus on Serendipity
What role does serendipity play in your life? Do you call it serendipity or do you choose to call it luck, synchronicity or coincidence?...
Amy Rowlinson
- Apr 1
- 3 min
Focus on Becoming
I caught my reflection in the mirror. A particular mirror that has been witness to whom I have become over the years and to whom I am...
Amy Rowlinson
- Mar 4
- 3 min
Focus on Seeds
“This morning before my day started I listened to another one of your podcasts. Loving it. It is the water to a seed I planted that is...
Amy Rowlinson
- Feb 25
- 3 min
Focus on Coaching
Many people in life don’t know what they want but they do know what they don’t want! They recognise that there is a difference between...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jan 29
- 3 min
Focus on Silence
Out walking in the woods with my dog, the topic of silence came to my mind. The crunching of leaves underfoot, the snapping of dead wood,...
Amy Rowlinson
- Jan 21
- 4 min
Focus on Responsibility
Do you take responsibility for your actions, your decisions, your life? I see many people sleepwalking through their lives as they don't...
Amy Rowlinson
- Dec 11, 2021
- 3 min
Focus on Forgiveness
Let it go! It’s that time of year again where I keep hearing the song all around me from the film Frozen. Can you believe it was...
Amy Rowlinson
- Nov 20, 2021
- 3 min
Focus on Investment
What does the word investment mean to you? Does it conjure up images of pinstripe-suited city bankers shouting loudly on the telephone on...
Amy Rowlinson
- Nov 6, 2021
- 4 min
Focus on Organisation
People often comment on how much I achieve in a day, a week, a month, and ask me if I have an extra day a week to get things done....
Amy Rowlinson
- Oct 30, 2021
- 3 min
Focus on Reflection
Reflection is an important practice as it enables you to observe, listen, feel and relate to the content that is being shared; analysing...
Amy Rowlinson
- Oct 16, 2021
- 3 min
Focus on Paradoxes
This statement is a lie! Ah, but is it really? It is a paradox; a contradiction which may seem absurd however it relays both a truth and...
Amy Rowlinson
- Sep 30, 2021
- 2 min
Focus on Seeds
Going for Growth - a story of a seed! Five years ago today, on 30th September 2016, I planted a seed and watched it grow. With that seed...