Changing our behaviours always do feel like mountainous tasks. We set big goals – my son’s middle school tee-shirt said ‘run fast or be last’. The non sporting version is ‘go big or go home’…. Read More
What all students and teachers say is that confidence is the key to a person’s journey towards the workplace, whether it is the first journey, or after a break : Here is caroline goyder on… Read More
The life skills network has designed and offered a suite of four courses to the Waterloo job shop in 2015, which was a UK Department of Work and Pensions subcontractor. It was on their feedback… Read More
I didn’t really know what to do with my life when I was 17. I talked to my father, who said – time enough for that yet, get a degree first, and then think about… Read More
The practice of calling the mind back, when it has wandered off somewhere is called ‘pratyahara’ in Patanjali’s yoga sutras, an ancient work on how to meditate for the purposes of spiritual advancement. We know… Read More
So, to continue – three examples of women shining in their fields of work. Choosing Marie Curie is usual. So I won’t. I will look instead at Franklin. (Found in all life on Earth, DNA… Read More
The day after international womens day, I thought I would follow something that my father used to say, when he thought I was making some unsubstantiated claim – he would smile and say : Give… Read More
A friend honing a new course said ‘It is later than you think, start living now’. It made me sit up and take notice. It also made me start writing a book. A very personal… Read More
‘So, tell me before I set off, what goes with what?’ I was putting out a few plates of food for people about to arrive and an old friend came into the kitchen and asked… Read More
Everyone in your workplace expects you to have brilliant ideas on a rolling basis, once you have had one good idea, put it into practice, and it worked. What you need to do after that… Read More