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Life Creativity – Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes

Life Creativity - Applying Beyond Personal Mastery® to Life Changes I want to share with you my model of Creativity that provides practical steps to enhance Life and Career changes.  I will describe the model in this post, and in subsequent ones discuss each of the steps in greater detail. Here is the Beyond Personal Mastery® model.   Beyond ...

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Oppositional Thoughts…Volume 4

Here is Volume 4 of my Oppositional Thoughts...They are designed to gently puncture some of the slightly precious life advice out there, and to complexify overly simplistic homilies, that make life appear a lot simpler than it is in reality. You can find Volume 3 here and Volume 2 here and Volume 1 here Oppositional thoughts...There is ...

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The Seven Myths of Stress

Here are a range of different everyday experiences. How might you feel in each of these circumstances? You are having your family to stay for Christmas Your partner of the last twenty years announces they are leaving you for your best friend (you might feel relief!) You go to hospital for a major and risky procedure (trying to ...

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Job Hopping- are claims it is bad for your career justified?

Another way of looking at this data would be to say, if your path to the CEO route looks to be blocked in one company then moving a couple of times may only delay you by about 12 – 18 months in the worst case scenario that you would have made it to CEO had you stayed put. If, however, you wouldn’t have made it had you stayed put, then moving has probably got you to the CEO role faster than staying put.

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Communication and Engagement in the workplace

entered the office of a colleague (who had been university friend). Our boss was in there with my friend, and looked up and simply said “F___ Off” James” and my friend, in a supine gesture reiterated the instruction in precisely the same terms. Some friend.

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Does a limp one (handshake) harm your job prospects?

limp handshake dead fish
limp handshake dead fish

For men it turns out that a limp one is a very big deal that could have serious impacts on their future prospects. However that same does not apply to women. Firmness it turns out is very much a male issue.

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