When you are grateful, fear disappears. As we explore the power of love, health and well-being this month, we turn our focus to gratitude: a driving force in healing not only our minds but our bodies. It may feel at times that the world around us is incredibly negative. It can be hard to remind ourselves of the positives in our lives when we are met daily with sensationalised news, exhaustion and trying to keep up with the rat race. Often, a day goes by when we haven’t had a second to breathe let alone think about all the things we love. So many times, we only focus on the negatives in our life that when something does go wrong […]
Use 2023 As a Time For Change
Did you know that 95% of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned by the second week of January? We all have good intentions to make changes in our lives, professionally and personally, yet seem to place enormous pressure on ourselves with the continual “new year, new me” mantra. As the first weeks of the year pass, we have often already slipped back into old ways and thoughts of career development or personal improvement seem to fade into the background. It is unsurprising. After the quiet reflective time of Christmas passes, we are met with a return to work and a barrage of messages from social media and advertising, telling us why to change our lives and how to do it “easily”. […]
A Career Development Testimonial | Wendy’s Story
Written by Wendy Crawford. After 18 years with the same company, I found myself facing a career change and potential redundancy. I’d climbed the career ladder through luck, or so I thought. I wasn’t good at job interviews – I’d actually been told that on more than one occasion. My CV was poor and not up to date. My LinkedIn profile was equally poor. Networking scared the hell out of me. I’d lost sight of my achievements and I lacked confidence. My career development was suffering. I’d been meaning to tackle all of this for years. But with a full-time job, children, elderly parents, and the general stresses of everyday life, I’d never found the time. And I had no […]
There is No Longer A 9 to 5 Mentality
This is an article originally written in 2013 however still has relevance all these years on … Well, that was the famous song in the late 70’s, when woman were trying to have it all and were desperately trying to compete in the board room while juggling family life and yes, most people were working 9 to 5pm. How things have changed …. Dolly Parton has recently brought her musical version of the film to the Edinburgh Playhouse and having had the good fortune to go along; this feel good show certainly gave me some food for thought. Set in the late 70’s there were no computers just type writers, no mobile phones and most people clocked in at 9am […]