by Antonia Milkop | Dec 7, 2022 | Boundaries, Clients, Coaching, Connection, Courage, Planning, productivity, Reflecting, Teams, wellbeing
Kau mua, ka muri: “Walking backward into the future” I love moving forward. I tend to whiz on to the next thing when one thing is over. I have to force myself to stop, take stock, and reflect with hindsight on the past to gain insights and move forward...
by Antonia Milkop | Nov 19, 2022 | Boundaries, Coaching, Connection, productivity, Reflecting, Teams, wellbeing
Start a 4 D’s list – what will you Delete, Delegate, Defer and Do? “Argh, I just need more time!”. Yup, you may be right. Especially given what you are trying to achieve by yourself. But unless you have a seriously amazing magic wand none of...
by Antonia Milkop | Mar 25, 2022 | Coaching, Connection, Empathy, Reflecting, Understanding, wellbeing
“I wish people would just understand. That’s it” “Understand what?” “Each other. That’s all”. How powerful is that?! It is so innocent. So profound. I sometimes think the voices of children are not listened to. A...
by Antonia Milkop | Mar 8, 2022 | Clients, CliftonStrengths, Coaching, Connection, wellbeing
It’s time to celebrate the success of women In the spirit of celebrating the success of women, I want to reflect on the CliftonStrengths profiles of all the female leaders that I admire that I’ve had the opportunity to do CliftonStrengths coaching or workshops...
by Antonia Milkop | Feb 28, 2022 | Connection, Courage, Reflecting, wellbeing
With the current global climate, I wanted to share the connection of Estonian Independence Day (24 February) and the power of people and resilience. My husband’s family (where the name Milkop comes from) are Estonian. His grandfather first went to Australia from...
by Antonia Milkop | Jan 1, 2022 | Planning, Reflecting, visioning, wellbeing
Inspired five years ago by the book ‘Playing Big’ by Tara Mohr, I wrote a letter to my future self. In this book, Tara outlined an exercise called ‘Meet your Inner Mentor’, where you imagined your future self and then wrote a letter to this person. I’ve still got a...
