Category: self awareness

• Navigating the Self-Employment Roller Coaster

  It has been way too long… I am embarrassed at how my social media posting has dropped, at the length of time it has taken for me to post another blog… however, that is because I fell into the curse of the self employed! What curse? That of taking on too much work through anxiety…

  June 21, 2025

  · Adult Education, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness, self employment, Sustainability, Uncategorized, Wellbeing

• Book Review – Quiet

  By Susan Cain I only learned I might be an Introvert last year… at 54 I think that it would have been handy to have learnt a lot earlier! However, with it only recently become vogue to identify at extrovert or introvert, I guess it is better late than never. Reading Susan Cain’s ‘Quiet’ has…

  April 5, 2025

  · Book review, DISC, employee engagement, engaging with employees, Leadership, learning and development, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness, Wellbeing, work life balance

• The Transition to Working for Yourself

  The desire to change our current circumstance is an underlying root cause of discontent in many of us. Some of us want to move, have more free time, to work for ourselves or build our own business. What holds us back is fear of the unknown, the fear of not having an income, the worry…

  November 7, 2024

  · change, critical reflection, imposter syndrome, learning and development, mentoring, Motivation, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness, self employment, work life balance

• ‘Meh’ to ‘Yeh’

  So, last week I had a very unsatisfactory after work run. I class an unsatisfactory run one in which I feel as bad at the end as I did at the start! When there is no impressive time within which I ran to make it feel worth it. When I don’t notice the beautiful colours…

  October 28, 2024

  · change, Mental Health, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Personal Development, self awareness, Sustainability, Wellbeing, work life balance

• Review – ‘Surrounded by Psychopaths’ by Thomas Erikson

  My reading of ‘surrounded by Idiots’ raised such interest in me that I was thrilled when a colleague loaned me ‘surrounded by psychopaths’. This was written after Erikson recognised that a select group of people were using the information he provides in his first book to manipulate others. He wrote this book to provide us…

  August 22, 2024

  · Book review, DISC, learning and development, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness

• Review – ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ by Thomas Erikson

  I’m on a bit of a development roll at the moment as I prepare for personal and professional challenges ahead. I’ve just finished reading Thomas Erikson’s ‘Surrounded by Idiots’ which explains the four types of human behaviour the DISC profile tool explores. The four types, you may know, are Red-Dominant, Blue-Analytical, Yellow-Inspiring, and Green- Stable.…

  August 8, 2024

  · Book review, change, Community of practice, critical reflection, DISC, employee engagement, engaging with employees, imposter syndrome, Leadership, learning and development, mentoring, motivating employees, Motivation, Non-profit projects and organisation, Onboarding, Organisational Development, Personal Development, Professional Development, self awareness