by Jan | May 5, 2016 | Adding value, Making Plans, Priorities
“Until yesterday, I didn’t have a favourite car wash. He now has my loyalty for life – and that’s what small business owners need to know … ” I live on a section of gravel road, so my car is never clean, although it may start out...
by Jan | Apr 18, 2016 | Coping Strategies, Goal Setting, Happy Journey
This is one of those situations where I know a lot of strategies but sometimes even my bad days don’t turn out very well, and then it’s a series of bad days. Like last week was for me. You know how it is sometimes when you think, “why did I even...
by Jan | Apr 8, 2016 | Career Courage, Making Plans, Priorities
Some days it’s so hard to get traction at work; we have started the day well with a to do list, it’s prioritised and away we go on the most important thing. Then a tsunami washes over us in the form of urgent tasks that just have to be done immediately....
by Jan | Apr 1, 2016 | Goal Setting, Making Plans
Isn’t it amazing how time slips away? It seems only yesterday that we started a bright new year with a clean slate on which to build 2016. And now three months have passed already. For me the Easter break comes at exactly the right time to pause, reflect on how...
by Jan | Mar 17, 2016 | Career, Career Change, Career Courage, Goal Setting
Do you ever get up in the morning and dread facing the day? You practise strategies for being happier, and it’s worked, but it’s hard to get motivated? Perhaps you have been in your present role for maybe three to five years. You used to love your work...
by Jan | Mar 14, 2016 | Happy Journey
The children who visited my house during January had a set of the popular Mr Men books. Mr Happy smiles a lot and spreads his sunshine around, Mr Grumpy seems to carry a black cloud around with him and so on. Each character is locked in to which ever adjective he or...
by Jan | Mar 7, 2016 | Career Change, Laid off
Being laid off can be a shock, even if you know that the company you work for is down sizing, restructuring, changing hands or has a new captain at the helm. You can see it coming but still get caught. Most people can expect to find themselves out of work more than...
by Jan | Feb 29, 2016 | Career, Career Change, Career Courage
When work isn’t going as you’d planned, the “perfect” job no longer looks so wonderful, you’ve been laid off or you are wanting to return to work after an absence on one hand the choices can seem overwhelming; on the other hand, you...
by Jan | Feb 22, 2016 | CV
Updating your CV if you haven’t done it for a long time can be daunting and confusing. If you haven’t needed one for ages it can be really hard knowing how to start. These are a few suggestions to get you started: Use a template. Whichever word processor...
by Jan | Feb 15, 2016 | Career, Career Change, CV
You’ve recognised the need to update your CV, you’ve been thinking long and hard about the type of work you would like to move in to and you are all set to express the very best of yourself formally in an awesome job application. Then like Amanda, you tack...
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