From the category archives:

Well being

Tweet Wonderful posting by brainpickings on how to find work that enables us to thrive !

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Tweet A great reminder of where we can choose to be in our lives. Check out the BK centres – great places to relearn how to listen to ourselves.

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Tweet Great piece in Fast Company magazine firstly talking about ‘broken tile syndrome’ – read it and see. And then  about the fact that most of us are much more skilled in complaining than we are at giving positive feedback. As portfolio workers often moving in and out of organisations we have great opportunities of [...]

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Tweet How full is your ENERGY pot? Whenever I speak to groups about their energy – I always get the best feedback on this exercise. Running a business, having a family and generally keeping body and soul together can be physically and mentally tiring. ENERGY is the key and understanding WHO and WHAT gives you [...]

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Tweet Love this piece from Bill Jensen. He says “I recently had the opportunity to interview Yao Huang, who’s been named one of the top 25 women driving New York’s tech scene. I encourage you to watch her video. Lots of wisdom packed into 8 mins. About half-way thru she describes major life discoveries from [...]

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Tweet Yes you have read that correctly!  As you know we encourage guest bloggers and this is a first from Nikki Wilson who also started off quite a long running discussion on Linkedin on how to get a portfolio career started. Nikki has come up with some interesting observations on the relationship between these two [...]

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Tweet My good friend Nick Williams has recently published a new book called THE BUSINESS YOU WERE BORN TO CREATE. A great read with short chapters ideal for the time challenged. One chapter caught my eye entitled “Maybe you are a renaissance soul?” and he quotes Barbara Winter Author of Making a Living without a [...]

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Tweet Can stress ever be positive? Yes according to researchers in the US. Andrew Munro a great writer on “Organisational humanity, business, music and random thoughts” muses on the benefits. While you are there – check out some of his other posts. He writes papers for companies such as Microsoft on the future of how [...]

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Tweet My prescription for a daily dose of happiness….

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Tweet The Guardian has a great article on Who needs a CV in Mull? where multi-tasking is a way of life. And the inhabitants wouldn’t have it any other way. Coincidently, Hugh MacLeod, who provided us with many of the drawings in our book also had a grandfather in the Scottish Highlands who was a [...]

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