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Ditched the new year resolutions? Set goals that get results in 2010
If we want to make real change in our lives, we need to move beyond believing in the ‘magic bullet’ of new year resolutions.
As a coach, I’ve achieved most of what I set out to do – except when it comes to keeping New Year resolutions. I still have my written resolution to learn [...]
Career Change: Designing my new brilliant career
When you’re self-employed, changing careers isn’t just about looking in the local paper to see what jobs are on offer. You actually have the opportunity to continue creating your own work in whatever field or way you choose. Over the last few months I’ve been re-imagining the work I do (and importantly, could do) and [...]
Apparently Benjamin Disraeli said
Apparently Benjamin Disraeli said,
“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.”
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about Self-Determination Theory which is all about how we need to have choices and feel capable of acting on those choices for our well-being. And [...]
Apparently, William McDonough said
Apparently, William McDonough said,
“Design is the first signal of human intention”
I like this quote from the renowned architect as I’m fascinated by design. Buildings, furniture, molecules, life: the patterns, interconnectivity, processes keep me amused for hours. But I wonder if design really is the first signal of human intention.
If you look at the process of [...]
Debunking the myth of 21 Days to a New Habit
Have you heard the one about how you need to do something for 21 days before it becomes a habit?
It’s a myth.
There is no research that has found such a thing. I’ve scoured the psych literature and the internet looking for the source of this urban self-help myth and couldn’t locate any studies that provided [...]
What not to do, or, what I learned (again) in 2008
Yay. It’s over. Let’s celebrate.
1st January 2009: I woke up this morning feeling quite odd. It wasn’t that I was in a strange house, exceptionally dehydrated, and trying to remember just what had transpired the night before.
It was the queer feeling of optimism.
You may have noticed that every second thing I’ve been writing the last [...]
On Reflective Practice, or, Why I write.
Using writing as reflective practice not only develops your communication skills but can also help you with those big (and little) life decisions.
Reflective practice. Means nothing to you? No, it probably wouldn’t unless you’d trained as a teacher or a nurse or a psych or a management consultant. It’s a shame it’s not more well-known [...]
