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Week 15: Having a problem reaching your goal? Why refocusing is the key.
What happens when we see danger ahead on the path towards our goal? Generally, we don’t like to feel like we have failed. Or perhaps worse still, feel like others see us as a failure. Goal setting is often used as a way of making us feel we are becoming better, more improved in some…
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Weeks 12, 13 and 14: Christmas Highs, New Year Lows, and how to use goals to recover your physical and mental health.
I’ve been learning how to walk again. This is a lengthy post about my recovery from a lower back/spine problem. I’ve added tips about how I manage recovery mentally and physically. The Christmas and New Year period were for me emotionally tough (first without my mother who passed last year), then very physically challenging. I…
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Week 11/52: Downtime.
I’ve learned the hard way in previous projects that a key component in achieving a goal is having downtime. Proper rest. Not scheduled in, not with any kind of aim, but just time to rest and recuperate. I have a series of warning signs I look out for, mentally and physically, which usually mean I…
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Week 9: A Day with the Mountain Weather Information Service
I promised in my last post that I would be sharing my action plan with you. So what does MWIS have to do with my personal career plan? Before I get to the answer, let me give you a brief outline of my day with one of the meteorologists from the service at the start…
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Week 8, Month 2: Why bother with a career plan? Six questions to try and answer as a Mountain Leader
It might feel a bit pointless to plan your future. I mean, nobody knows what will happen for sure and we all change in unexpected ways. Some of those changes are good, some bad. And surely the careers plan for a Mountain Leader is just ‘go out and hike up mountains’, right?! This is a…
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Week 7: No Such Thing as Bad Weather…Except Really Bad Weather!
As regular readers will know, I check the weather forecast on a Thursday evening to see what my weekend might look like. Sometimes it’s time to plan a sunrise shoot, sometimes it’s a walk for one of my guidebook projects. Other times it’s a Quality Day for one of the various awards I’m working towards.…
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Week 6: 100th Blog Post and Quality Lowland Day #7
Before I begin, a bit of a newsflash for you all: I’ve actually gone and booked onto a Lowland Leader training course! And I also just realised that this is my 100th blog! Should I mark the occasion in some way? If you are reading this, can I just say a massive and heartfelt ‘thank…
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Week 5: How do you best prepare for an outdoor qualification?
Let’s face it, starting a qualification as an adult is a pretty big deal. There are many reasons for this: it costs a lot, takes a lot of time up you could be spending on other things, and there’s no guarantee at the other end you will get a return on your investment. So how…
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A Career as a Mountain Leader: How do you navigate your options?
Estimated reading time: 10 minutes. As promised in a previous blog about doing a year of career development, here is the first instalment. I have been a Careers Adviser for ten years. For the same amount of time, I have also been a Mountain Leader. The question I am focusing on is: how can you…
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