Caroline is a Mindset Trainer and speaker who works with sensitive, high-potential leaders who know they were born for something more. She shows them how to beat mindset blocks and habits, such as limiting beliefs, low self worth and procrastination, that are preventing them from making a bigger impact.
By Caroline Ferguson | Acceptance , Mindset optimisation series
I was talking to someone this morning about how helpful it is to take an accepting view – of ourselves, others, things that happen and the situations in which we find ourselves. She said, “I can’t accept the fact that my business partner let me down. If I accept it, that means what she did […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Success Mindset
You know that thing that happens when you can’t remember a person’s name? Or what film someone was in? Or where you saw that amazing piece of info that could change your life?… And then three hours (or three days) later, boom! There’s the answer in your head! This phenomonon is known as a transderivational […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Functional Zones , Mindset optimisation series
When was the last time you were so happily absorbed in what you were doing that you completely suspended any judgement of yourself? In fact, you barely thought about yourself at all because you were so in tune with your actions? There was no distraction. Hours flew by in minutes, but time was almost irrelevant […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Functional Zones , Mindset optimisation series , Success Mindset
Pro stands for productive, professional and proficient. You could throw in prolific and proactive too. And problem-solving – definitely that one. We all have times when we need to be in our ‘PRO’ zone. This is where we Get Things Done. Unlike your Go Zone, which is about running on the spot, your Pro zone […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Functional Zones , Mindset optimisation series
Your ‘GO’ Zone is busy. So busy that often you don’t have time to step back and realise that your busyness might not be taking you where you want to go. The ‘GO’ Zone can feel pretty full-on. You’re on the move. Your to do list – and possibly your work diary– are bulging with […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Functional Zones , Mindset optimisation series
You know the ‘SLOW’ Zone, where time drags and the task you’re picking your way through manages to be a nasty combination of boring AND stressful? Yes, that task. The one that reappears on your ‘to do’ list every day until finally you have to tackle it. You can just about manage it but it […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Success Mindset
You know when you’re in the ‘NO’ Zone. You know it because you’re doing absolutely anything rather than the task you’re supposed to be doing. Your ‘NO’ Zone is a place of dread: It’s the tasks you can’t face. Those things on your ‘to do’ list that overwhelm you at the mere thought. Jobs that […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Functional Zones
What does Robin Williams have to do with you being your best self? A lot, as it happens. When I heard the news that Williams had died, I dug around the back of my video shelf until I found what I wanted – a copy of 1987’s “Good Morning Vietnam”. I wanted to see the […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Habits , Mindset optimisation series
During our lifetime, we develop thousands of habitual ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. Habits – good and bad – are continually being formed, strengthened and weakened. But how does it happen, and why? Remember those 100 billion neurons I mentioned when I wrote about how your mind works? Neurons have little projections, called dendrites, […]
By Caroline Ferguson | Mindset
If you want to be able to manage your mindset, it helps to understand something about what’s going on inside your head. You don’t have to be a brain surgeon or neuroscientist to be curious about the contents of your skull. The human brain is the most complex thing in the universe and you get […]