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Posts from ‘July, 2010’

Changing Career – Are You Waiting For Prince Charming To Save You?

I have been doing an internet marketing course over the last year while taking some time out from corporate law. I decided to take a break from the course as I wasn’t achieving the results I wanted and I thought that a break would give me a fresh approach when I started again. That decision [...]

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Who Moved My Cheese? A Great Story To Help You Deal With Change

The best laid schemes o’mice and men often go astray ~ Robert Burns
“Who Moved My Cheese?“, by Dr Spencer Johnson, is a book that I’ve been meaning to read for awhile and when I spotted it in the bookshelf of my current housesit I knew now was the time.
 The book only took an hour to read and, [...]

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Changing Career – Beware Of The Lazy Bloke On The Couch When You Work At Home

It turns out I’m not as disciplined as I thought; in fact I have a lazy person inside simply dying to take over. While I was working as a lawyer I was ultra organised (scarily so, I’ve been told), worked well to deadlines, for the most part worked well under pressure and could always be [...]

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How To Get Rid of “Stuff” and Live Out Of Your Car

Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. ~ William Morris
 

For those who are regular readers you will know that I live a little differently these days. I essentially live with what will fit into the boot of my car and I am house sitting [...]

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What Wonderous Work Does A Willing Wwoofer Do?

Wwoofing?? Has my spell check given up for the day or is this some weird cult involving a lot of barking and scratching? Neither thank goodness!

 
So what exactly is Wwoofing? Well for starters it stands for World Wide Opportunties On Organic Farms; althought that is no longer the only work on offer. The description on the [...]

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Perfection – friend or foe?

I bring to you my first ever non legal article that has been published! This article is included in the July edition of Professionelle’s newletter. Professionelle is an online network for professional women in New Zealand (although I’m sure that Sarah and Galia would be more than happy to have more overseas members!)

 
Perfection – is it [...]

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of House Sitting

I’ve been trying a different way of living for the last 6 months and have been housesitting my way around New Zealand. A couple of days ago I wrote an article on how to get a housesit and I thought you might like to know what the good, the bad and the ugly was when [...]

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