Stop applying for jobs you don’t want
Hey you – step away from that panic job application. You don’t want that role. Here’s 5 personal values to consider for future decisions and career pivots.
Category Archive life
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How I invested £15k in my health, relationships and careers
In 2023 I invested £15,000 in my health, relationships and career. Here’s how it broadened my opportunities and helped me successful career pivot.
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Cairngorms Adventures: climbing the 2nd highest UK mountain by mistake
How I climbed, Ben Macdui, the 2nd highest mountain in the UK by mistake after a random conversation
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Walking to Aviemore (via gin)
How an hour of gin tasting, an accidentally missed breakfast and a 5 mile walk combined to make a memorable day.
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Three things found in Australia
Prior knowledge can make us overcomplicate things. Keeping things simple often works too.
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Don’t explain
Are you fed up of moderating yourself for people you can never please? Do you feel the pressure to constantly explain yourself to the mainstream? Stop. Learn from Toni Morrison and don’t explain. Live your life and let others catch up.
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Paid exposure to racism is still trauma
Continued exposure to racism and its effects creates trauma. This doesn’t change just because people are being paid. Employers need to consider their duty of care more.
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Let’s talk about money
The first rule of money club is you don’t talk about money club. The second rule of money club is you don’t talk about money club. Talking about money is vulgar, gauche, taboo. I’m going to break the rules.
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Books I read during the covid pandemic
12 months ago the UK entered its first lockdown due to the Covid19 pandemic. My reading fell off a cliff. I couldn’t concentrate, I had no energy and no motivation to read. Eventually my reading mojo returned. Here’s what I read and learned over the past year.
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My personal definition of success
It can be easy to judge ourselves against external measures of success that don’t reflect what truly matters to us. Recently I’ve defined what success means to me and it’s helped guide important decisions in my life.