Tag: writing
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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 5/6
Should you share your goal ideas? Let’s think on this a sec, before I share with you question number five. So there you are, with a goal in mind, maybe something innovative or unique, maybe something a bit wild. Maybe something really boring. Everyone is different. You don’t mind thinking about it throughout the day,…
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Six Questions for Success: Part 4/6 – Establish a framework for research
The dawn of a new idea or goal. Initially exciting but then you realise just how much you don’t know. You realise the massive amount of work to make it happen. Some of that is going to need focus and method. For some, I guess it means taking a little longer to find something out…
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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 27: Sailing Alone – Using the Sea to gain a perspective on the Self
To those who read this – thanks for sticking with me as I prepare to head back outside properly. I’ve been doing a massive amount of physical rehabilitation on my back muscles and it has really made a difference. Back on the trails this weekend….it’s been far too long. So the book – any good?…
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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 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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Madman or Poet? A Night on Cadair Idris
There’s a saying in Welsh mythology that if you spend a night on top of Cadair Idris, South Snowdonia, you wake up as either a madman or a poet. I lived in Wales for the best part of four years, and for whatever reason never got round to it. Always had an excuse of some…
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