Your Life Enriched

Have you ever noticed that if you set out to look for something that unless it is genuinely lost in the mists of time, that you find it soon enough? My children often let out a wail akin to your average banshee that something is lost, gone, no more.  But I’ve looked everywhere Daddy…. Uh [...]

Tackling Redundancy. It wasn’t that long ago that being made redundant carried a certain stigma.  It was considered a stain on one’s career and resume.  The assumption was that if you were made redundant, there must be something wrong with you.  You weren’t up to the job or worse, were lazy and incompetent.  Maybe even [...]

OK so we know what this article is going to be about.  We’re going to talk about how we need to be prepared to give of ourselves, to put ourselves out there and in turn reap the benefits. Well, that kind of thing, and we’ll get there…. Please hang in there until the end. It [...]

How many times have you heard the phrase “it’s all in the mind”? And how many times have you, like me, responded, “Yeah, right”?  And what does that mean anyway?  How can everything be encapsulated in to one phrase? I’m sorry to tell you this, but I think whoever came up with the phrase is [...]

Is this you…..?  You’re in your late thirties, or early forties.  Work is work.  It’s just what you do and you almost willingly turn up every Monday to an office, virtual or otherwise, to commence another week of the daily grind.  It used to cover the bills.  You go home, via horrendous traffic, listening to [...]

Life’s a funny thing at times.When I say at times, I really mean often. Funny strange. And funny ha ha too. But definitely strange. Do you ever feel that despite doing all the right things, you just don’t get the breaks? It may not be of any consolation, but it happens to us all, and [...]

In this case the noise is language. We communicate verbally and non-verbally. I’m not about to harp on about body language and get all ‘new age’ on you, fear not! I do think though, that we’ve lost the ability to properly communicate with one another. We’ve become accustomed to taking in lots of data at a [...]

So here we are at 5pm on Friday and work is all but done (in truth I think most people have been done since lunchtime – a bit of sunshine and scrrrrammm….!). It’s been a funny week. In a strange sense not ha ha  Having had an important piece of business delayed and with some [...]