This isn’t the post I thought I’d publish today. That was something about the Zen of the 9-5, and keeping your head when all around are losing theirs. Driving back from my morning coffee ritual, I was hatching the story line, stopping from time to time to take happy eyefuls of verges lined with golden…
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How To Be Inventive When Snow Stops Play
Totally weird I was talking about being in the moment on Wednesday. Turns out that’s what I’m going to be doing a lot of over the next few days. See, I had been planning on travelling north to Edinburgh for a short holiday. But snow has stopped that particular kind of play. Very sad, as…
How To Get Paid For Eating Chocolate Cake
I was already mulling over the idea of treating you to a more personal post for the August Bank Holiday weekend. But it was my friend Eleanor who gave me the call to action. Writing about how to earn a crust doing what you love, and picking up on a frivolous comment I’d left about…
Looking At Life Through The Eyes Of A Child
My most favourite nephew in the world is staying with me this week from Glasgow. He also happens to be my only nephew in the world, but that makes him more, not less special. Suffice to say, we’ve been having a lot of fun. As I wrote elsewhere, James has the smartest way of looking…
Up in the Air: food for thought for New Work Pioneers?
It was Cali Williams Yost across at Work+Life Fit who inspired me to go see Up in the Air recently. Even so, I hadn’t expected there to have been quite so much rich material for my New Work Pioneer thinking as I found. I hope you’ve seen the film – if not, you must! Meantime,…
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 her brain and were recommending immediate treatment. We’d known she hadn’t…
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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.
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