April 27, 2009
I’ve just watched Seth Godin’s video on ‘This is broken’ (go to Seth Godin’s Blog and search the entries for this title). I wish I could give you the right address to click on, but I can’t.
It’s not Important or World Shaking and it won’t tell you much you don’t know, but he’s good [...]
For years I struggled with the concept of meditation. I never did get past the first principle of emptying the mind. Then, when I was training as a coach, I suddenly got it. It’s not nearly as difficult as I thought and you don’t have to sit cross-legged in a silent room.
For anyone who has the [...]
No, not as dramatic as it seems. Last week, someone bashed into my (perfectly) parked car in Otley, leaving me with a scuffed bumper, a mangled wheel and flat tyre. There was a note on my windscreen with the registration number of the other car and the time. No phone number, so I imagine it was left by a passer-by.
I [...]
April 20, 2009
I started off being so impressed with Seth Godin’s blog. Now I’m not so keen. Firstly, his blog about the ‘new’ marketing – first find ten people, then they will spread the word and do it all for you. Hmm.! Haven’t small businesses been doing that for some time, along with other marketing methods? And [...]
April 17, 2009
I’ve finally submitted my ‘Life after redundancy’ article (it will appear on the jobs.ac.uk website/Career Development soon). Here’s an addition to it.
After a few interviews, I realised that the most interesting and useful question I asked was ‘What is your advice to anyone in this situation?’ I saw that, as people’s experiences and how they dealt with it were [...]
April 3, 2009
Almost invariably, what you don’t want when you’re wrestling with a problem is ‘a solution’. Particularly when you’ve been living with it for ages and it’s been going round and round in your head.
I never fail to be surprised when I’m offered the first piece of advice that enters the head of the person I’m talking to. If [...]
April 2, 2009
In the ‘breathalysed!’ blog, I generalised. I suggested that in this country we generally don’t have to make notes on what we do in case we have to defend ourselves later. Twenty years ago, this breezy assertion and smug attitude would have made me furious. I’m a white, middle-aged, middle-class woman who listens to Radio 4 and [...]