Love Your Failures
Why don’t we love our failures instead of letting them make us feel small? Following on from my last post of looking back to look forward I am shining the spotlight on failure. In this period of reflection have a look at your failures. Gather them together whilst being careful not to re-engage with any […]
Look Back to Look Forward for 2017
What do you see when you look back? As we enter the last month of the year thoughts naturally turn towards the coming festive period. We begin to think about winding work down a bit and look forward to the public holidays when we can lay our work hats to one side and get some […]
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and try, try again
Sometimes in your career, just as I was, you are faced with nothing, nada, zilch, zero. In my case, it was the train crash that absolutely trashed my financial advice career and left me with no way back. For others, it may be the failure of a business, having to change direction to survive or […]
Persist Like a Jack Russell
This month’s articles have been about how you get going after a major setback. Life changing events can rock you back on your heels but you can get through them. So far we have looked at the need to Keep Trying…not always easy when your life has crashed down around you. However, there are new […]
Assess like the Ancient Egyptians
Are you properly assessing your progress? Whenever you start something new, change direction or have a complete overhaul of strategy, you can get completely absorbed in the project and forget to step back occasionally. This is especially true if you have experienced a severe setback; you just want to move forward, without stopping. That can […]
Put on Your Duke of Wellington Hat
Create a Plan of Action Continuing my series on how you overcome significant setbacks- and having hit a crunch point- how you get going again. It is all too easy to, either get stuck in despair or impulsively try anything to retrieve a bad situation. Neither works. You have this lovely shiny goal that you […]
Keep Trying- That’s How You Achieve Success
Sometimes in your career, just as I was, you are faced with nothing, nada, zilch, zero. In my case it was the train crash that absolutely trashed my financial advice career and left me with no way back. For others it may be the failure of a business, having to change direction in order to […]
The Straw, the Camel & Ninja Problem Solving
When you have to find ninja problem solving skills You’re right in the middle of a presentation to some new, important clients, and your computer freezes. You get a call from an existing client who is going to a competitor. This month’s absence figures indicate your company has been hit by a plague and when […]
Major Problem? There is a Way Past It
Life is rarely entirely smooth and sometimes we are faced with massive setbacks. In previous articles I have written about those bumps in the road that can threaten to derail you and throw you off course. These can be minor irritations, molehills and occasionally something a little more of an obstacle. Then, sometimes something crops […]
Roadblocks in Your Way? Divide and Conquer
Sometimes minor irritations grow and become actual obstacles to progress and you cannot shrug them off. There are occasions where a bigger problem occurs. Something that is large enough to give you pause or stop you in your tracks for a while e.g. network goes down, mother in law announces surprise visit, regulation stands in […]