Even if you live outside the UK you cannot have missed us Brits Twittering on about the clobbering our little island took recently from the snow. It's been a bit of a shock to city-turned-country girl here to ...
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Christine Livingston is a coach and writer, who helps professional people wanting to work and live on their own terms. With a successful career both inside and beyond the corporation to draw from, Christine gives the support, challenge, tools and inspiration that enable people to thrive. -
Category Archives: Christine’s entrepreneurial journey
Upping the ante in 2010
Happy New Year everyone! How were your Holidays? I hadn't planned to be off-air for almost two weeks, but that's how it has worked out and, boy, did I have a ball. One of the most amazing things about living in the heart of the ...
What do you do when your life doesn’t go according to plan?
I was in London doing a peer coaching session, when I got a message from Steve. It's not like him to phone when he knows I'm working, so I knew immediately that something was wrong. It was his mother. They'd found a tumour in ...
Health warning: blogging can seriously change your career
It was just an experiment at first. I had no intention of becoming hooked. All I can tell you is that, after a while, something else took over. My first introduction to blogging was by accident. I was doing some online research for a ...
Why you sometimes have to lose the plot
After the euphoria of early last week, I had a bit of a meltdown on Friday. I'd spent days managing multiple workmen, living out of a small suitcase, and being unable to easily find anything I wanted because my life was in cardboard boxes. ...
An attitude of gratitude
As you read this, I'll be in the midst of putting my life in a removal van and heading out of London. The last weeks have been an excited blur of continuing to develop my different kind of work in between planning the move. I've ...
How to be Rich and Happy: a book review
As John P Strelecky and Tim Brownson's How to be Rich and Happy hits the e-shelves this week, I'm curious to see if the book delivers on the promise of its bold headline title. Leaping into it, I quickly discover that, if a ...
What you ought to know about working for yourself
In the last two weeks I've started to take decisive action about moving out of town and using social media to take my business in a new direction. Suddenly I'm showing prospective tenants round my London house one day and looking at cottages in the ...