Lots of people get sucked into the current new age wisdom that we all have one unique thing we’re called to do in life. They spend years, not to mention thousands of pounds, on the next book, coach or workshop that offers the key to the holy grail. Meantime they feel pretty miserable doing whatever…
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Who Else Wants A Free Worklife Makeover?
If you’re feeling now would be a good time to take a few hours off of the hamster wheel and review how work and life are stacking up, you’ve landed on just the right blog page today. On the 18th of June in Central London I’m doing a pilot of The Worklife Makeover, ahead of…
New Work Pioneers Answer A Call To Adventure
Today’s post is the third in an emerging series, writing The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. Last week we were talking about the desire for soul-felt joy that drives gutsy, professionals to challenge career norms. Today we’re looking at the kind of things that catalyse that desire; that may indeed bring it into existence for…
Building A Blog Or Building A Business?
That’s been the question on my mind as I’ve done my April blog review. As regular readers know, I have a process for reviewing my blog that is now becoming pretty well established. I share the results of it because, not only am I passionate about helping others navigate career and life change for themselves,…
Introducing The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers
Welcome to the first in an unfolding and to-be-developed series of posts, creating The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. To kick off, I want to share three things: My intention in writing The Manifesto Some thoughts on how this process will run Article headings that could shape some meaningful draft content and lead to some…
The Birth of a New Work Pioneer
I was asked earlier this week about what it was I actually did, and who I did it for. Not being a natural marketer, I don’t have off-pat answers for these questions. So, in an attempt to articulate them for myself, I began to write a story. Only half way through drafting, did it hit…
New Work Pioneers Use Crises As Opportunities For Change
People looking for a more meaningful relationship with whatever work they do, use redundancy, burn-out and breakdown as opportunities for significant personal change. Rather than allowing these crises to derail or depress them, they choose to see them as catalysts for taking their lives and work forward in a more conscious direction.
The Silent Rise of the New Work Pioneer
Did you see Get Ready to be a Change Maker by Bill Drayton and Valeria Budinich over at the Harvard Business Review this week? The article talks about recent economic history, how we’ve cycled through agricultural, industrial and technological revolutions and are now on the cusp of another change again. In their words: “We are…
How to make sure you never get ahead
If you’ve been surfing the web you’ll have seen there are a number of blogs and bloggers around that want to make you believe you can be successful on your own terms at work. Here’s how to avoid their pernicious influence: Remember what your parents told you about work being a necessary evil. They were…