Posts tagged as:

happiness

Our friend Bruce Lynn from Dynamic Work sent this to me recently. Some very interesting thoughts on happiness via portfolio careers…
I thought of an extension to the zoo analogy today after a customer meeting.  In the wild, you are prized for your speed and strength.  In the zoo, you are prized for being well groomed, [...]

{ 1 comment }

Barrie recently posted about the F word(s) flexibility, fulfillment and freedom – some of the benefits of a portfolio career.  Scott Adams of Dilbert fame talks about a similar thought around CHOICE. He suggests that if a genie could grant us our perfect work/life blend BUT the genie would do the scheduling – would we say yes? This [...]

{ 0 comments }

Happiness – does it just come naturally?

by Barrie Hopson on December 11, 2008 · 1 comment

in Uncategorized

Sonja Lyubomirsky has just published a book on happiness adding to the growing mountain of work in this area. It is a subject that often comes up when I talk about Portfolio Careers with people. Those who have them say they could not be happy with anything else and those without them cannot imagine [...]

{ 1 comment }

The risks of being a portfolio worker

by Barrie Hopson on September 21, 2008 · 0 comments

in Uncategorized

There are many – and we will be visiting them from time to time but certainly one is that because we are always juggling business cards, co-ordinating our daily lives, managing the daily lives of others in our family so that all the pieces are in place we sometimes miss out on the the crucial [...]

{ 0 comments }