If You Need Something – Ask!

September 14, 2011
Help point on the platform at Kings Cross station London

If you need something – ASK. Don’t wait for someone to notice that you need help. Remember that others can choose to respond or not – so don’t get hung up on one particular person being the one you need to help you. Sometimes you’re

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Anam Mara, Part 2: Seaside

September 1, 2011
View of Trá Na Rossan beach from Atlantic Drive

In my last post, I blogged about Part 1 of my escape to a friend’s cottage in Donegal; a trip that was meant to be a time of writing and creating but came to be more about reading and gestating. This is the second post of

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Anam Mara, Part 1: Fireside

June 18, 2011
Anam Mara cottage, Donegal

In my last post, I blogged about my imminent escape to a cottage in Donegal, for a self-imposed creative retreat. There is a tv in the cottage, but I wasn’t going to be using it; and there’s no internet access. My plan was to bring

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Creative Retreat – Offline ’til 21/3!

March 10, 2011
View of Mulroy Bay, Downings, Co. Donegal

Well, after a really, really busy January and February giving various talks, training courses and residentials, along with some one-to-one coaching, I’m off on a creative retreat! My plan for Soul Ambition was always to develop lots of self-study courses people could use for their

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Low on Money, Rich in Time? Consider Skill Swapping

February 22, 2011
Time & Money: Photo of a pocketwatch on a wallet

So you’re trying to improve your career prospects with some new training, but you’ve no spare funds to invest in it. Or maybe you’re out of work and struggling to pay for necessary (and not-so-necessary) services. You’ve got little money, but a lot of time.

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Head v. Heart: A Cautionary Valentine’s Tale

February 14, 2011
XKCD Cartoon: "Valentine's Day. Because love isn't quite complicated enough as it is."

With this blog I aim to share what I’ve learned through my ongoing study, work with clients and my own ongoing journey of self-development. Many of my posts are quite theoretical or ‘how-to’ in nature, and I was originally going to post an update of this Soul Ambition article for Valentine’s day (I’m still working on my ‘article v. blog post’ strategy). But since I’ve just recently had a bit of a sharp life lesson, I thought I’d share a more personal story with you.

Today is the first Valentine’s day in seven years where I’ve not been single. And it’s not being marked in any particular way – neither of us is a fan of proscribed celebration (pay-three-times-the-fare-for-queuing-three-times-as-long New Year’s Eve being another bugbear) or of over-commercialisation of the human experience. But more to the point, we nearly weren’t a couple today due to a less-than-wise decision of mine. D’oh.

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Boost Your Career Prospects: A Holistic Approach

January 31, 2011
Soul Ambition and man with outstretched arms, rays of sunshine in the background

Whether you’re actively job-hunting or just wistfully dreaming of a career change, there are many practical steps you can take to boost your employability (and promotability).

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Happy New Year!

January 4, 2011

Just a quick post – for now – to wish you all a very Happy New Year! Have you been thinking about what you want to get out of this year – and what you want to put in to it? Remember that your thoughts

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Railways, Books and Serendipities

December 13, 2010
Cover Image from John Steinbeck

Having just spent the entire night engaged in WordPress-related jiggery-pokery, I thought I might indulge in an entirely non-geekish blog post. (Unless overuse of hyphens counts as geekishness, that is.) Not being able to sleep night before last, being pumped full of antibiotics and assorted

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Facebook for Business: I’ve Done It Wrong – Help!

December 13, 2010
Jimmy Saville enjoying a nice cup of tea with a robot dog and small boy

So, you’ve read the Facebook for Business: The Basics post, and you had a sinking feeling as you realised you had accidentally breached Terms of Service (ToS), by using a personal profile instead of a business page – adding friends, posting primarily business content – and/or

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Facebook for Business: The Basics

November 26, 2010
Facebook pages graphic

Get It Right from the Start – Save your Time, Money and Reputation Social media for business is still a relatively new field, and many business owners find it something of a minefield. Some of them are setting up profiles and pages in a panic,

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Knowledge Is Confidence

October 25, 2010
Tech Support Cheat Sheet Image

When I do my confidence-building courses and coaching, I ask people what their biggest confidence saboteurs are. And one of the most common, in people’s business or personal lives, is a lack of knowledge. People are often scared of looking stupid, or ignorant, and dread

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Smells Like Clever Marketing

October 22, 2010

You know your viral video’s a true success when it’s been parodied by Sesame Street. In an earlier post, I shared the ever-so-brilliant Old Spice ad which won the Grand Prix for film and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial this year. Sesame Street’s

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Make Your Own Luck (With Help From Other People)

October 22, 2010
Five-Leaf Clover by Mikko Luntiala, on Flickr

If you believe you are lucky, you are more likely to be lucky. Research shows that optimists achieve more, live longer and enjoy better relationships with people. So whilst there are times when it pays to be pessimistic – when the consequences of an action

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