<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Be You Life Coaching]]></title><description><![CDATA[Be You Coach]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 05:25:29 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[After This]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was rescheduling a holiday recently and caught myself thinking: "Surely after this, things will settle down." It is a phrase that appears with remarkable regularity in adult conversation. After this project. After this school term. After this month. After this busy patch. We convince ourselves that just beyond the current horizon, things will finally become easier. The interesting thing about the "after this" trap is that the boundary line always seems to move. The project ends, and a new...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/after-this</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a1e2ba174254bcae085b815</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:03:13 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final Boarding Call]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was running to the gate. Final boarding call. There is nothing quite like a flight departure to expose exactly how little control we actually have over our lives. We arrive at airports with carefully planned itineraries, confirmation emails, estimated arrival times and a quiet confidence that preparation is enough to keep things under control. Then, almost immediately, the system starts improvising. Flights are delayed. Gates are changed. Unexpected weather systems introduce entirely new...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/final-boarding-call</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a14ea8cd681fe01d1698839</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 00:37:38 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adult Competence]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was standing behind the television trying to work out which cord connected to what. At some point, major technology decisions in my house appear to have been quietly delegated to my in-house IT support. Who is my son. I was attempting to connect a Nintendo Switch and waiting for further instructions via Snapchat. Which felt like a surprisingly fragile position for someone who had spent years leading teams and navigating organisational complexity. My qualifications, experience and...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/ordinary-adult-life-became-strangely-operational</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a0b139a07d4a948dd8080cf</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:31:42 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Invisible Job Description]]></title><description><![CDATA[My children once gave me a Mother's Day card describing me as "CEO." Honestly, it wasn't entirely inaccurate. On paper, we spend our lives managing the highly visible roles that people can easily see. Executive. Partner. Mother. Caregiver. But underneath those official titles, there is a particular kind of competence that develops over time. It's the invisible job description. This is the kind of competence that remembers who needs to be where and when. Family Uber driver for people who now...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/who-are-you-without-the-title</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a02c9b368a3e7adcb11e120</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 08:58:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Handover]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was having coffee on a Saturday morning and found myself planning how to be spontaneous. Which felt slightly contradictory. Lately, I’ve been thinking about things as "old me" and "new me." It is mostly because it’s the easiest way to explain why part of me still wants a rough itinerary for a completely free afternoon. Old me likes structure, plans, timelines and clear outcomes. There is something profoundly reassuring about knowing what's happening, when it's happening and ideally, having...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/old-me-new-me-and-the-bit-no-one-mentions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f9a7135caf4ed272bc714f</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 08:23:20 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Default Settings]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was sitting at the kitchen table one morning, creating structure for a day that didn't really need it. A plan. A schedule. Possibly a framework. Halfway through, I stopped. I thought I’d left this behind. Apparently, some habits survive major life transitions remarkably well. When I left corporate, I assumed the adjustment would be mostly practical. There would be different work, a different pace and entirely different priorities. What I didn't account for was how much of the old operating...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/when-freedom-doesn-t-feel-like-freedom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ef587fe72f74b1ddaaad31</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:49:21 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Actual Plot]]></title><description><![CDATA[For a long time, I assumed life would keep me reasonably informed about upcoming plot developments. Not all of them, obviously. Just the major ones. A quick email would have been nice, a calendar invitation or even a vague heads-up. Instead, life tends to operate on a need-to-know basis. And apparently, I rarely need to know. Most of the things that have fundamentally changed the direction of my life arrived entirely without warning. There were jobs I wasn't planning to take, conversations I...]]></description><link>https://www.beyoucoach.com.au/post/this-wasn-t-in-the-script</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69f9ab2d5caf4ed272bc7bfd</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Sue Stokes</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>