Author RSSAre You Cinderella or The Ugly Step Sister When It Comes To Your Career?
You remember the classic fairy tale. Cinderella flees the Royal Ball at midnight, accidentally leaving behind one glass slipper. The captivated Prince Charming picks it up and searches the land to find its beautiful owner.
All sorts of hopeful candida...
The Importance of NOT Being Earnest (with apologies to Wilde)
As a relatively new blogger I know it's important to spend some time getting acquainted with the experts. My favourite is Pamela Slim of Escape From Cubicle Nation. She always manages to sound like a real person, which is harder than you'd imagine. This "...
How To Recapture The Optimism Of Youth
We all know that being positive is a Good Thing. But as we get older, it's not that easy to break long-held habits of negative, self-defeating thinking.
I wonder if it's because our thoughts are both so familiar and invisible that we don't always appre...
Two Simple Ways To Free Up Your Time
Sophisticated time management tools, techniques and theories abound: go here and knock yourself out with a comprehensive overview - Pareto, activity logs, Locke's goal setting theory, it's all there.
But I'd like to focus on two very simple ways we can...
How To Create A Low Cost Logo
I believe that in life you generally get what you pay for - so in planning to design a logo for your business, the ideal course of action would usually be to brief a professional designer. Preferably one who will integrate logo design with creating your c...
How To Know For Sure If It's Work That's Right For You
Deciding on a new career direction can be a paralysing experience. This is particularly true if you've spent many years in a job or profession that didn't quite fit. You really want to make the right choice this time round.
I've been there and felt th...
Taking Inspiration From My Daughter
Two days ago my daughter Elsa (3 1/2) announced that she'd like to cycle herself to school - a local Chinese kindergarten just round the corner from where we live. Her bike was last year's birthday present from her ayi (like a Chinese nanny). But Elsa nev...
Uncover Your Buried Dreams - By Writing The Perfect Obituary
I know this sounds rather morbid, but writing your own obituary is actually a great way of uncovering the dreams you have for your life.
Often we don't acknowledge - let alone achieve - our dreams because we prefer to carry on with our hands in the san...
Making The Most Of The "In Between" Times
When we decide to make a career change - or any change in fact - we tend to do everything we can to effect the change as quickly and painlessly as possible. It's understandable: a speedy career re-launch allows us to protect our income, keep a structure t...
7 Reasons I'm Sticking With My Lifestyle Business
I started Cows From My Window 18 months ago and despite the inevitable rocky patches of any new business, it has been the best 18 months of my life.
Here are 7 reasons why owning a lifestyle business works for me (and could for you):
1. I can choose...
6 Simple Steps To Naming Your Lifestyle Business
I started my lifestyle business, Cows From My Window, nearly two years ago and deciding what to call the wretched thing was definitely one of the hardest parts of the setting up process.
I obsessed over potential business names for the better part of a...
How To Define And Get YOUR Kind Of Success
"Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you my kind of success".
So speaks Dicky Fox, mentor to sports agent Jerry Maguire in the film of that name....
The Fastest Way To Get Your Energy Back
From time to time our passionately held beliefs - our exciting goals for the future - lose their oomph. Maybe we've come up against a problem we just can't see our way around. Or perhaps we're just exhausted from working too hard. Like a soufflé taken ou...
Are You Watering Down Your Dream?
One of the things I often notice is how quick we are to water down our dreams. I know that sometimes we do have to bend to reality, but much of the time we don't even give our dreams a chance. We compromise up front, before even testing the ideal. Or we l...
What Your Party Conversation Says About Your Ideal Work
What sort of people do you prefer to talk to at a party? According to Richard Bolles, author of What Colour Is Your Parachute and long-standing career change guru, your answer to this question will determine the work environment that suits you best.
Un...
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