This week marks a year of blogs – 52 entries in total. Somehow through the madness of going self-employed I’ve managed to write one every week. Or more truthfully, there is a blog for every week of the year – sometimes these were written once a week and sometimes they were written a…
Category: Personal Development
What You Need is a Marathon
“What you need is a marathon” – said no-one, ever. But this week marked my second one, and even I struggle to explain why I put myself through it. My first one was a kind of therapy, booked in the delirium of sleeplessness in the middle of the night, holding my first baby…
Work Coaching
I’ve recently started something I’ve been thinking about for a while – coaching. But for myself, rather than offering it to others. I’d heard from a few people that they found it really useful to talk to someone independent, that it helps them work through certain decisions or situations as well as helping…
Progression Isn’t Always Up
Is the only way up? One of the things that made me consider freelancing was because going up the ladder stopped appealing. I’ve always been quite ambitious. With each job move I’ve sought a better role, and apart from one sideways move, that always meant a better title, better wage and more responsibility….
When You Miss the Mark
One of the things I’ve been dreading the most happened this week – I missed the mark. I submitted some work, and it wasn’t right. I’ve never been great at dealing with negative feedback. I have a tendency to take it personally and then spend a lot of time overthinking it. It was…