One of the points up for consideration at a meeting this week was ‘are you hanging out with the right people?’. I suspect that last time that question was asked of me I may well have been in my late teens, it may well is a been posed by my parents, and I may well […]
The difference between career ambition and career manifestation is time. As I arrived at a seminar today, late, entering by falling down a step that I was rushing down became I was late, it struck me that in that past, rather than be late, I might never have shown up at all. Due to low […]
In moments of rage and despair it is too easy to forget that there was a time of enjoyment before this ‘present’, or indeed that there shall be anything beyond it. I am living proof, as indeed are you, that there is life after hurt. I believe it is a Buddhist belief that the measure […]
Whilst there is no such thing as a bad client, there are such things as personality mismatches or clients who perhaps not yet ready to dive headlong into the issue that needs addressing. Or there are clients with whom the relationship is in its early ‘forming’ stage and the boundaries and challenge zones are just […]
Today I did a new thing. Today I did what was for me, a Big New Thing. I got up at 5.30am and I went out in the dark in order to pitch my business to a room full of strangers. This was right at the outer reaches of my learning edges for a multitude […]
As someone who was an introverted child, my dad still screws his face up occasionally and says the words ‘but you were such a strong little thing’. I can sense that we had a perhaps a few confrontations whilst I was small. Whilst this may have been a pain for my parents, once I have […]
We live in a culture that has very little respect for age. Bombarded as we are with images of nubile nymphs, it is really easy to forget that time, self knowledge and experience bring great information to our career development. Once we get into our 30s and 40s however, we begin to really make some […]
I don’t know if this applies to you, but I have had it pointed out to me (often actually!), that the professional commitments I make and the responsibilities i shoulder, and the expectations I have of myself sometimes do not honour my human needs. It is not clients or business partners that cop the brunt […]
Sometimes it is not possible to be on-top-of-it-all. However hard you work, however many hours you put in, sometimes the number of projects or clients in and out of the door is way to swift a turnover for the ends to be all nearly tied up before bed. This is when it is essential to […]
Slowly but surely, from here on in, the days will get longer and the light will return. Even though we cannot see it yet, small seedlings, snug beneath the soil, begin to send tentative tendrils downwards to seek the nourishment they need to flourish. We humans are no different. Whilst the days are dark, our […]