Career Planning, Learning and Performance

Attention Mind Mappers! First, Why You Really Should Mind Map I’ve loved mind mapping for years.  Mind mapping has improved the quality of my thinking and learning, helped me generate thousands of ideas, helped me plan for my business, my work and personal life as well as saved me time and effort in many areas.  [...]

Here’s the common long way to do your job search: (afterward, I’ll show you the fast way) 1. start sighing, and begin your job search (sighing every so often to spur you on) 2. find and read tarted-up job spec ads designed to promise you a wonderful career doing wonderful things with wonderful people (ensure [...]

I’ve met a lot of teachers over the years who want to get out of teaching.  Why? I’ve also met and worked with lots of people over the years who consider teaching for one reason above all else: because it’s great for the holidays.  What?  What about the longer working part?  And the effect it [...]

. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? No idea. Which came first your career or your lifestyle? Erm… well, your lifestyle had a say in your career choice of course. But your career choice has determined your current lifestyle and will continue to do so.  So, do you enjoy your lifestyle inside and [...]

I’m going to show you how you can make a huge leap of progress in your career. I meet plenty of people through my work, all at different stages in their career.  It doesn’t take me long to decide which of three general attitudes they have towards their work: 1.  There are those who think [...]

Are you playing a game you can win? Are you currently playing in a league you can win? If not, choose a game, or league, or career that you can win. Choose your competition so that you can win in certain areas (and get rewarded appropriately). Of course at the same time you want to [...]

Are you playing a game you can win? Are you currently playing in a league you can win? If not, choose a game, or league, or career that you can win. Choose your competition so that you can win in certain areas (and get rewarded appropriately). Of course at the same time you want to [...]

. . I just finished reading Harvey Mackay’s new book ‘Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door’ which in my opinion had some useful tips in, but was nothing particularly ground breaking.  There were two major points that stood out to me that people should take on board above all others.  The [...]

I think this is a great question to ask yourself every so often.  I ask myself this question a lot.  This post shows how I escape what I’m caught up in.  It works. There’s nothing worse than being (or feeling) caught up in something, whether it’s work, relationships, business, your environment, whatever.  If you feel [...]

Really?  You can be more productive than your computer allows you to be? Yep.  Well, of course your computer is the right tool for certain jobs.  But it’s all too easy to get lazy and try to do everything via your computer.  Ultimately, using your computer for too many things chokes your productivity. Ever heard [...]