Tag Archive: presence

How To Be Magical

‘Tis the season for tricks, treats, vampish costumes and ghoulish potions. Fantastic fun to play make-believe with the other realm. But if you could use an ounce of real magic in your life, wouldn’t you want to? Meet the magician, a character consigned to myth and other-worldliness, but at large in yourself if you dare…

The Vocation Myth

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…

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…

6 lessons Johnny Truant taught me about doing the work I love

This wasn’t the post I had planned. The one I had lined up was called “6 practical steps to falling in love with work again”. In it I was trying to write about that awful experience of losing any interest you might ever have had in the work you’re doing and wondering what the hell…