What makes for a brilliant career? Many people will tell you it’s about the quality of their CV: the brand names they’ve worked for, the job titles they’ve had, the progression they’ve made through the ranks; the businesses they’ve driven to success. But if you buy into this picture, could you be deluding yourself? Once…
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Why You Need To Trust Yourself When The Wheels Come Off Your Career Wagon
What do you do when the wheels come off your career wagon? That’s a question that brings a lot of people to me. People who’ve expected their work – and lives – to go in a certain direction. To have just the same enthusiasm today as they always had yesterday. But then something happens. Someone…
Why You Sometimes Have To Ignore Your To Do List And Play
Do you plan and organize your life so much that you blind yourself to the opportunity in the moment? As a business woman, who is also a creative, I have to work hard to make sure stuff happens. Bottom line, it’s how money gets made. Still, I’d be lying if I said that this didn’t…
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.
3 lessons on work and life from walking 10 miles in the snow
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 wake up to the fact that outside of London snow is not some slushy thing that lasts…
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. That’s to say nothing of the fact that I just couldn’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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