By Today I had my first onsite meeting as an Independent Consultant with a client/prospect. Most of you know that I semi-retired at the end of June this year. I was feeling overwhelmed with stress and undervalued by my former employer. I don’t want to write anymore about those times. One of the skills I’ve been …
Grateful for work
It’s gratitude challenge time! I’ve got a tough one for you today. Do you think you’re up for it? Your challenge is to be grateful for work. work – noun. activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a purpose or result. Today/This week, when someone loads you up with more work …
Rebounding
‘Life isn’t fair, Mary Frances.’ I can hear my mom’s voice telling me that when I was a child whining about something that didn’t go my way. Life not being fair is one of the harder lessons to learn in life. Our logical brains can’t handle it when 1 + 1 doesn’t equal 2. This …
Three things I didn’t know when I started my career
This blog is one of those ‘if I had known then what I know now’ type reflections that people my age write. The hope is that someone will benefit from the wisdom of my years of experience. There are certainly more than three things I didn’t know…but I figured these three are a good starting …