Lessons from binge watching Dietland and a PhD on obesity: the dangers of making it happen
On the path of change and personal transformation, it can be hard to find balance: should you push or should you wait? Developing your...
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Multi-Award-Winning Executive and Career Coach, Educator, and Author of The Success Trap
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Amina sends out short, free letters on how to create a fulfilling and liberated career plus the latest updates on opportunities to work with her. You can check out past editions below.
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 5 min
When you don’t feel inspired to do anything: Sisyphus, FOMO and the great unknown.
It’s a medium one. Do you feel guilty or anxious when you’re not doing anything? Do you worry you’re wasting time or not making the most...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 6 min
This is heaven on earth - cardboard boxes, self-betrayal and career purpose
It’s a long one. Last week, I gave a talk for a group of bright and inspired surgeons at Oxford University on invitation from a great...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 5 min
When people try to push you to do or buy stuff and my shame recovery
A friend tried to persuade me to join the Landmark Forum – again. If you’ve never heard of it, it’s a slightly controversial, group...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Why I don't have fixed goals and the alternative
It's WISE WEDNESDAYS! “I’m so glad you’re not getting me to do that goal-setting stuff.” I hear this in exploratory coaching...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 3 min
3 big lessons I got from creating my own job
It's WISE WEDNESDAYS! Last week, I attended a seminar on the future of work. The World Economic Forum, big thinkers on the subject and a...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 5 min
The dark side of career change: 16 principles to get through
It was fun speaking at the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence's Annual Conference. It's the third time I'm invited but the...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Preventing and treating decision fatigue: apply the die
Preventing and treating decision fatigue: apply the die. In a 2017 advert, Microsoft used a statistic estimating that we make 35,000...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Mental wellbeing, celebrity suicides and the only thing I’m taking away from them
The sad news of two celebrity suicides in one week has sent ripples through our collective consciousness. I don’t normally write on...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Self-worth versus skills: a vital distinction for overachievers
News! The next Leaders Circle (Transformational Communication) is next week on Thursday 14th! Join me and a small group of doctors and...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 2 min
Turn your greatest enemy into your wisest friend
If you’ve ever felt terrified of failure or rejection, or heard a voice in your head tell you that you’re bad, wrong or inadequate,...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 3 min
The big leap from doctor to business owner in review (two year anniversary)
Dear Heroines and Heroes, It’s Wise Wednesdays #90+! Thank you for being part of Wise Wednesdays! It gives me great joy to write and...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 5 min
Stop putting yourself down now. 3 principles from learning science.
Stop putting yourself down now! 3 principles from learning science Do you catch yourself saying mean things to yourself? “I’m so stupid”,...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Why perfectionism will trip you up and how to let it go
What do you think about when you hear the word “creativity”? The word is often associated with inventiveness; florid, artistic activity...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 3 min
That Wild West spirit
It’s Wise Wednesdays! It was a month away from the end of my twelve year career in the National Health System. I hadn’t applied for a job...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 5 min
Why hard choices are an opportunity
80,000 hours in a career... How do you make difficult choices about how to spend your 80,000? How do you make difficult choices? Do you...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 2 min
What I learned from wanting more in my career and life (the wisdom of desire)
Most of us have trauma around wanting things. As life goes on, we accumulate experiences of frustration and “failure” that can replace...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 5 min
What do you do when you don’t know what to do? (especially when you’re changing career and life)
It was about 5 years ago when I declared my self-diagnosis: I don’t know how to relax. Of course, it wasn’t strictly true. I went on...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Why I invented my own job and why you could too
What do you do for a living when the best part of a million dollars has been invested in your education?...That’s a lot of education…For...
Amina Aitsi-Selmi
- Apr 23, 2023
- 4 min
Why your dark side may be your greatest ally in creating the career and life you want
So much has happened in the past week in terms of coaching, travel and experiences. From discussing nuclear energy politics to leading...
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