Three years and counting
If I don't make time for my wellness I will be forced to make time for my illness. This week I definitely had to learn ...
Life Blog
Stepping toward the light
This has been a week of juggling and deliberate switching. I've found that being whole hearted in one activity and taking a breath (and some ...
Acceleration
Over halfway through February and I'm not quite sure how we got here! Much more time on a client site and the associated travel and ...
A look on the bright side
This week I reconnected face to face with a long time friend after a gap and marvelled at the skills and experience they have accumulated ...
Take time when travelling
This week has been a travelling week, choosing office interactions over time at home. The challenge is balancing the benefits of seeing colleagues in person ...
Seniors need feedback too
If you ever ask yourself at work, "should I give this person feedback" the answer is always yes. What and how you deliver it is ...
Begin with the balance
It's been a mixed week back at work with some great feedback on how I've been leading a team of out of hours support engineers ...
Fighting Advent Blues with Magic
A bit more of a open, honest, personal round up this time: I've really struggled this week. Physical maladies and low vitamin d haven't helped. ...
How to write yourself positive
What you write becomes the historic record of what happened, if that record is full of negativity, the memory becomes negative. Apparently, when you remember ...
Advice for a journey and life
A young friend is off on a long journey soon and as I wondered how best to wish him well I came up with the ...
Welcoming in 2009
One of the resolutions this year was to post more on my blog and as it's already 18th of January before the first post of ...
7 straight As in Networking‡
To succeed in this current time of economic instability you might be having to rethink your approach to bringing in freelance or employed work and ...
So much less and yet so much more
When there is so much more to be seen we record so much less, have you noticed? Even though I've decided to commit more to ...
A note on confidence
I've always stuggled with confidence in my own voice whether singing, writing or taking photos. There is so much already 'out there' on the infinitely ...
Little and often
Isn't it amazing how you can lie in bed and compose paragraphs of coherent text and yet once the fingers are poised over the keys ...