It’s easily done. Start out in life so energetic and full of great ideas. Then find yourself in a career, a job, a way of life to which you’ve given over your ability to think. Hard to say how or when it happened. And if you look back it was probably not just one event…
Tag Archive: positive deviance
How Being A Little Badass Will Help You Thrive In 2011
What mindset are you choosing to adopt as you come into this New Year? That’s the question I’m asking as we kick off the Recession Proof Your Career in 2011 series. With the squeeze on jobs and small businesses there are two places you might be. The first is siege mentality: head down, resigned to…
Getting Ahead By Not Being A Cliché
Meet Eduard Ezeanu. A regular commentor here on the blog, today he’s giving us some fabulous, tangible advice on how we can be extraordinary. One thing which I find amusing is how most people expect to get out of the ordinary success and satisfaction in their careers, without doing or being themselves out of the…
New Work Pioneers Reframe Success
Today’s post is the fourth in an emerging series, writing The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. It looks at how, by redefining success for yourself, you can switch your whole relationship with work and life. If you’re anything like me, you were schooled early about what “good” looked like: stellar qualifications; degrees from the best…
Revealed: Why New Work Pioneers REALLY Bother
I was pretty excited as I sat down at the Mac to write this, the second in an emerging series, creating The Manifesto For New Work Pioneers. Why? Because I’d decided to start by talking about what’s at the heart of my companion journeyfolks’ decision to break through old career rules. Yes, they want more…
Four Lessons on Game-Changing From The Scottish Rugby Team
There I was, watching the last of the Six Nations rugby matches on Saturday. As a Scot, the highlight of the afternoon was Ireland vs Scotland in Dublin. History was already present for many reasons. Not only was it going to be Ireland’s last match at Croke Park, a venue steeped with traditions that…
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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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