One woman's journey from corporate life to a life of freedom
I’ve wanted to learn how to scuba dive for years now but never quite found the time. It turned out that all I needed to do was make a quick decision. I jogged past the dive centre on Wednesday night, signed up on Thursday, had my medical on Friday and was in the classroom by Saturday.
The [...]
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 [...]
Its been 5 months and 27 days since I started to housesit and I have to say I’m enjoying my novel new lifestyle.
I had initially heard about house sitting as an alternative way of travelling and signed up to a recommended house sitting site for a 3 month trip I was doing. Even though I [...]
Everyone has an inner critic. It’s that little voice that pops up when you least want it to and reminds you of your failures and shortcomings. Perhaps it came into existence because you had critical parents or a teacher that was never pleased with what you did or a boss whose idea of management was [...]
Have you ever had a fantastic vision about how you would like your life to look? Maybe a great idea for a new business or a dream career that you wanted to explore? Were you so excited that you couldn’t wait to share it with friends, to have them be as excited as you were?
As [...]
Yesterday I wrote about a major part of the “story” of my life that I had been hanging onto. This got me thinking about how I describe myself to others and how I think about myself. I was reminded of an opportunity that I was given recently to look at exactly that.
Last year I attended [...]
Each of us has a story to our lives so far. People, moments, disasters and successes that define us or, should I say, that we allow to define us because our view of how they have affected us is just that, our view. Our version of the truth. It is our choice as to how we [...]
I recently attended a lunch held by Professionelle (an online network for professional women) based around the topic of Career Strategies For Women. As I am in a period of career transition this was a timely topic for me.
If you haven’t heard of Professionelle yet then I would definitely recommend you take a look at [...]
What have I done this week to move my business forward?
Goals and roles – My biggest achievement this week has been to rearrange the way that I work by using a Stephen Covey method (read more about it here) to redefine my roles and my goals. It has been working very well and I’ve had [...]
Have you ever gone to a seminar then forgotten everything you learned as soon as you left? I know I have.
I’ve been attending a few seminars recently, both on line and off line, and it got me thinking about how I could make sure that I gain the most benefit from the time I was [...]
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