Brand You

Why You Should Be Considering Brand You. I am a huge fan of the concept of ‘you are your brand’. That it is essential for anyone in business to be really clear on the message and the ‘brand’ they present; whether they run their own business,...

Resilience Needed

I was asked to contribute a small piece on resilience for a professional paper and was drawn to the observation of how essential resilience now is to anyone setting off on a new career path. Although always in the back of my mind I am concerned that resilience can...

We Tell Others How To Treat Us

I was reminded this week in painful circumstance how it is human nature to judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions. If we can try, with great difficulty sometimes, to wonder why we have received the reaction we have and to consider how our behaviour...

It’s The Truth, Honestly

We all like to feel we are honest in our dealings with others and are often outraged when others behave in anything less than worthy manner. But I wonder how honest we actually are? I sat and watched ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ with my daughter the other day,...

Failure Is Not An Option – Or Is It?

I was watching a documentary on Apollo 13 last night, I like the film based on the event and imagined the documentary would provide extra information. Actually, it all turned out to be horribly cheesy; with an overly dramatic voice-over, and tedious music. What I did...

What’s My Niche?

On our conference call today the broad subject was starting a business. As one of the topics was about deciding what that business might be, I thought it might be a good subject for this week’s post?      There might be many reasons you would consider starting a...