I have to share this Blog. It’s well worth the read. With many thanks to Mark Manson Blog “Screw Finding Your Passion by Mark Manson Remember back when you were a kid? You would just do things. You never thought to yourself, “What are the relative merits of learning baseball versus football?” You just […]
It might seem ridiculous that I need to even write those words but I do feel I want to. Over and over again I hear career coaching clients dismiss doing what they love as ‘an indulgence’, ‘a hobby’ or ‘just a pastime’. They rarely categorise these brilliances as the thing that can earn them a […]
“It’s ain’t what you do it’s the way that you do it” that’s what the song says anyway and I do believe they’re right. When designing your next career step, the choice of vocation is one only you can make. It is the way that you do it is what will ensure its success. If you […]
Barry Swartz said: “Focus on what makes you happy, and do what gives meaning to your life” But herein lies a question or certainly a need for clarification. What is that ‘thing’ we should focus on? The majority of us in the western world have had reasonably good education and relatively privileged childhoods. These benefits will […]
……Is that we can cause all sorts of difficulties for ourselves. We can talk ourselves both in, and out, of any opportunity or plan. We can do this over and over until we barely know which way is up or indeed what we wanted to achieve in the first place…… What an exhausting process! How […]
What does this mean? Some people call it ‘being in the zone’ or ‘doing the work they love’, but certainly it is the sense that you are doing just what you want to do, in the way that you want to do it, right in the here and now. Whilst there are bits of every […]
Sometimes when we turn and face a problem it helps. The feeling that something is amiss, the fear for our job or our child or our relationship, that one that doesn’t shift, no mater what we tweak or nudge or shove, is sometimes best met head-on. To face the difficulty, name it and take a […]
If you’re a ‘stay at home mum’, it’s easy to feel guilty for not contributing to the household income. If you’re a ‘working mum’, it’s easy to feel guilty about not attending to your child 24/7. If whilst you juggle work and home you also desire some fun or even just ‘you-time’, god help you […]
There aren’t many humans who fear the moment that the price is quoted and the silence descends……. especially if you are British! It is not the done thing to discuss money. It is perhaps even seen as impolite or rude. What it actually is, is frightening. In business, at some point a deal must be […]
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