Tag: career
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Six Questions for Success Part 6/6: The Last Question
I recently celebrated my 38th birthday. A couple of days beforehand, I had one evening where for around two hours I had a crushing low mood and a sense that I was rapidly getting old with not that much to show for it. The feeling was triggered by a song that I heard that reminded…
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Six Questions For Success: Part 2/6 – How to gain clarity and precision from the start.
Last month, I started a series of posts focusing on the idea of asking six questions to help you steer towards success. The easy way to remember these questions is by the alphabet, starting at the letter ‘O’, and ending in ‘T’. These questions can be asked by anyone, for any goal, and they will…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 1/6 – Develop, manage and deliver on your goals.
The above picture is one of the most dangerous sections of inland river in the United Kingdom. I took a group there recently. The water is 30 feet deep (yes, you read that correctly) and the rocks look tantalisingly close to just hop across. Many have tried and failed to do that. If you want…
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Week 28: Brighouse to Berry Brow
As Spring has most definitely arrived, I have been out adding some more days to my mountain training logbook and trying to learn some new flora. I used to carry a variety of plant ID books round with me but this week trialled something different – Google Lens. While this only really works when it’s…
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Week 24: The Thai Cave Rescue
So what do you do when you find out that 12 young boys and their football coach are stuck nearly two kilometres in a complex cave system in Thailand and the monsoon rains have just begun? You call John Volanthan. I remember watching this rescue unfold on the news back in 2018, and like many…
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Week 23: The First Ascent of the North Face of the Eiger
This week, I would like to take an extreme example of adventure and focus on my next word in the A-Z of personal development – ‘belay‘. You might wonder why I have chosen such an obscure word. Please bear with me! What does the word mean in my Collins dictionary? ”to fix a rope around…
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Week 21: Goal, aim or target – what’s the difference and why does it even matter?
I’ve been giving career guidance sessions now for ten years. During that time, one thing that has been consistent is the lack of agreed definition with regards to the words we use about career progression. Some people say goals, others use aims, some even use targets. Because they’re all the same anyway right, and really,…
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Week 20: ”I think therefore I could be”: all goals start in the mind.
Ten years ago, I was teaching philosophy to 17 year olds. One group in particular had been kind of written off as low achieving, and were only in my class to fill their timetable. There were four of them (students, not classes.) And me? I have no degree in philosophy, and knew nothing about it…
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Week 19: Why Plan B is the key to success.
This post introduces a slight, but very important, change in trajectory for this weekly series. I am going to take you through the theory and advice on creating, setting, and achieving your goals. Whatever they might be. I’m going to take ten years of guidance and reflecting on my job, on what has worked and…
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Week 17: The idea of ‘The Journey’
What is a journey? Why are they important? What do they teach us? I’ll let a recent journey give insight into some potential answers. The dictionary claims a ‘journey’ to be ‘an act of travelling from one place to another’ while intriguingly the entry for ‘journeyman’ (let’s also include ‘journeywoman’) is ‘a skilled worker who…
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