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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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Week 3: Busy work life? Here are ten questions I ask myself before I head outdoors.
If you work a 40 hour week in an office, how can you best prepare for a weekend outside? And does that preparation actually make a difference? Here are ten questions I ask myself before heading out. They help guide me towards an objective and minimise missing out on crucial outdoor time. I’m using pictures…
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