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Finding the right career path for you
It may be that when you ask yourself these questions you realise that the career path you are currently following isn’t quite right for you.
You don’t have to accept the ‘gift’ of anger.
When people are angry with us part of them really wants to pass that anger onto us, like a virus. They want to justify their feelings by making us feel bad too. But we don’t have to accept the gift of anger.
How to get more ‘flow’ into your working life.
The more I work with people who are stressed and close to burnout, the more I realise that, while rest is of course vitally important, maybe equally important is the way we are actually working.
How to redefine failure (and success)
If you look up failure in the dictionary, it’s defined as ‘the fact of someone or something not succeeding’. When you think about it, what does that even mean? How do we define success? Is it about what other people say about what happened? How we feel about it? Whether we made money from it?
What ‘weebles’ can teach us when we wobble.
If anyone tells you that they are so ‘sorted’ that they never wobble, don’t believe them. The point isn’t to never wobble, the point is to come back to a balanced place as quickly as possible.
Does comparison-itis get in your way?
The ability to see at any one time what hundreds or even thousands of our friends and colleagues are up to on social media is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, how amazing is it that we can all be connected in this way? Imagine navigating lockdown without being able...
The tyranny of the ‘should’
If there’s one word that should come with a big flashing neon light around it, it’s ‘should’. The German psychoanalyst Karen Horney perceptively talked about “the tyranny of the should.” What does it mean if we say that we should do something? It...
Imposter syndrome: how it holds you back, and how to beat it.
How to recognise and overcome the often crippling effects of imposter syndrome.
Some ways to cope with an uncertain future.
As it becomes more and more obvious that things are not ‘going back to normal’ any time soon, all of us find ourselves facing an uncertain future. Perhaps the first thing is to recognise that none of us ever have the kind of certainty or control over our lives that we...
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