Tag: personal-development
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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 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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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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A Year in the Life of a Mountain Training Candidate
So here’s a new challenge, one that I have thought about doing for a long time but always hesitated to start. Until now. What would happen if I took some of the general careers advice I usually give to students and applied it to my development as a Mountain Training candidate? What sort of things…