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Tuesday 27th July 2010
One of my favourite quotes is from American poet Muriel Rukeyser: The world is made of stories, not atoms. Stories aren't just for children, or indulgent afternoons on the sofa. They are are equally important in the world of work.
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Thursday 27th May 2010
It's not currently fashionable to talk about talents: we focus on skills and experience, or describe someone as 'gifted' without getting too specific. But talents are part of our essential make-up - the gifts, passions, interests and natural aptitudes we are born with. If you want to find long-term satisfaction and success, it's helpful to identify your talents (and equally, your non-talents).
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Wednesday 6th January 2010
I have just taken on a new teaching gig, in an organisation where I trained many years ago. The guy who handed the course over to me was a friend, someone I had trained with 17 years ago. While we were chatting, he told me a story I hadn't known before - that he became a teacher because of something I said to him all those years ago about my own life.
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Wednesday 2nd December 2009
I had a client a while ago who was struggling to get clear on a new direction for her life. We had done a number of exercises, discussed options and played with possibilities, but she was still stuck. I suggested to her that she try to do a collage, finding and arranging images and words together on a page.
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Tuesday 8th September 2009
I recently rediscovered the YouTube video of Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford commencement address. He talks about his own university experiences, and in particular, his decision to drop out. This was a big thing for him (he describes it a 'pretty scary'), because his biological parents had stipulated that whoever adopted him had to agree to send him to university.
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Wednesday 2nd September 2009
I've written before about working with your strengths, but how do you FIND them in the first place?
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