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Wednesday 20th October 2010
I have been going to the same dentist for many years. I like Nathalie very much and she is a great dentist, but I can't say I actively look forward to my visits. Over the years, as you'd expect, they have involved an amount of pain, time and money :)
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Tuesday 7th September 2010
I've been using a '3 futures' exercise with some of my clients lately. It's been fun - and productive - so I thought to share it with you. In this exercise, you look at three possible different futures and really play out how your life might look after, say, 5 years of living each of them.
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Tuesday 3rd August 2010
I run a program called the Escape Hatch, because it is my belief that we should all find our strengths, tap into our passion and get paid for it. Because of this, I'm seeing a lot of unhappy people in CorporateWorld at the moment - mainstream professionals or executives who feel stifled, trapped by their own success, people who are looking for the exit but aren't sure where to start.
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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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