Tag: career development
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Clean Break: You’re Not Stuck. You’re Circling.
Lots of people are perfectly happy circling in the same holding pattern. We have all seen it; And there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. If you’re happy with where you are, why would you change it? But what happens when you aren’t happy? What happens when you still have ambition, still want to progress, still…
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Are You Escaping, or Are You Evolving?
It’s been a long, hot summer. And there’s still plenty of it left. But keeping focused on work has been harder than usual. The day job has quite rightly taken priority, and as a result, I’ve been much quieter on LinkedIn and Instagram over the last couple of months. And you know what? I think…
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The Quarter That Quietly Disappears
We are now almost halfway through Q3. And there is something about Q3 that makes it different from the other quarters. It can quietly drift away before you realise it. Not because people aren’t working hard. Not because they don’t care. And certainly not because the business suddenly stops being important. It happens because life…
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The Elephant in the Room
I’ve been a little quieter on LinkedIn recently. Sometimes that’s exactly what leadership demands. When time is limited, you can’t give everything equal attention. You have to decide what matters most, and for the last six weeks, my focus has been firmly on the day job. Our business has ambitious growth plans. Like many organisations,…
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How Disciplined Are You… Really?
Not for a day. Not for a week. But when it’s cold, wet, you’re tired, and nobody would blame you for skipping it. Because that’s when discipline actually matters. At the end of May, I ran a 10km race. To be honest, it wasn’t great. I felt sluggish, heavy, and underprepared. It was probably my…
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“Why did you do it?” “How did you do it?”
When I first went alcohol-free, I kept it to myself. Partly because I’m naturally introverted. Talking about personal challenges has never come easily to me. But there was another reason. For years, I’d been what I call a middle-lane drinker. I wasn’t drinking every day. I wasn’t hitting rock bottom. From the outside, everything looked…
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