Working with Silence
A while back I wrote about being ignored on your job search and how preparing to be ignored makes a big difference. The power of the nasty surprise is removed. You’re expecting to be ignored. You’re ready for it. It won’t get you down and it won’t get in your way. Being ignored is all part of the journey. It’s maybe even a guarantee you’re going the right way. This time around I’m writing about silence. Is getting the silent treatment any different to being ignored I hear you say? Are you ignoring me or have you just gone quiet? Is this just...
Read MoreThe Story of The Little Red Hen
When you were little, were you ever told the story of The Little Red Hen? In the story and pictures I recall, the little red hen was an anthropomorphised chicken who lived in a picturesque cottage in a delightful rural setting on a small plot of land. Her human-like abilities were quite well developed because this particular hen was able to plant flowers in her garden and grow crops on her land. The heart of the Little Red Hen’s story revolves around the farming of this land. If you’ll allow me for a moment, I’ll tell it here. ***SPOILER ALERT*** It was springtime and the...
Read MoreActs of Kindness
“Behind anything anyone ever achieved, was an act of kindness by somebody else.” How did your thoughts go on this? The more I explored this idea about connected kindness, the more it made sense. Take your career for example. It goes without saying that all your achievements (large or small) rely on the effort you put in but can you really say no one else had a hand in there? I for one couldn’t say this for sure. So if I can’t deny other people’s involvement in my achievements, what does this mean? For a start it means my career is connected to other people in...
Read MoreJargon, Buzz-Words & Inactivity
The other day I read this article about talent communities. The author explained what talent communities are and how important it is to have a talent community of your own. In case you don’t know, “a talent community is an interactive group of people joined together by a common interest or affinity.” It was good to get this definition because I had absolutely no idea what a talent community was. This article was actually the first time I had ever heard one mentioned. This recent ‘talent community’ experience reminded me of the first time I heard someone use the term...
Read MoreComfort, Stretch, Panic
A comfort zone is usually a nice place to be. Everything is where we need it, Doing what we expect it to do, How and when we like it to be done. In a stretch zone things are different. We’re not so confident or assured, But there’s this feeling we’ll get there, We’re not worried, we got this. In panic zones all bets are off. Everything compresses, Comfort shatters, stretch snaps. In panic we get lost. These three zones are normal. Perhaps even good. No single zone is permanent or all powerful. All three have downsides and benefits. Comfort, stretch and panic...
Read MoreLines and Lines of Questions
Immediate answers are a trick. And their cutest trick is to make us think they are instant when in reality even the most immediate answers come from long, long lines of questions. Lines, strings, chains, streams, paths, roads, cycles, flows, trains and planes and galaxies of questions. There are no immediate answers. Immediate answers are a trick. Sometimes lines of questions are very long. These long lines can reach way, way back to the past. Sometimes the question string or stream is shorter. Often the path of questions follows an offshoot, tributary, smaller road or turn we took from a...
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