Interesting to observe how often the people I work with become authorities in their field. It’s also interesting to note just how often this authority originates in what was perhaps seen as ‘an oddity’ in their youth. There is some kind of logic behind this. When you consider that we need to work hardest at […]
My first mentor told me the story about ‘the busy fool’ and some collaborative work I did today brought it to mind. Years ago I was sitting with my seasoned mentor, and I remember saying ‘how can I market myself! I feel so vulnerable selling myself. I can do it for others, but not for […]
Transition is a really hard task mistress and is the difference between ‘change’ and ‘transition’. Dspite our fears, the practicality of change is far more immediately and outwardly rewarding, than the internal root-deep excavation of transition. Transition can be an isolating and lonely path. It is the time when we choose a different way, set […]
How do you find what you want to do? In my experience as a practitioner, it is usually a process of elimination. Whilst of course there are people who, when they first touch the keys of a piano during childhood, know this is what they will do for the rest of their lives. For the […]
If you do not celebrate your learning and reward you achievements, you will become undernourished. Beginning the next project, job or qualification, when you are already undernourished, makes it more difficult to do. Keep repeating this cycle and you will burn out. Fact. Stop, think of something you did well in the last day […]
How often do you pause to listen? We do not hear ourselves, or our own needs and desires, for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons is practical. Most of us are very busy, juggling work and home and family and friends and community and it seems there is little time to set aside […]