Written on
September 29, 2009 by
Cath
Did you catch the Myers-Briggs Facebook quiz going around? I’m a sucker for these sorts of personality tests. I think I’ve done every personality and aptitude test available to mankind… and all the silly cosmo quizes too. Not that I’m any wiser for it!
What do I want to be when I grow up?
Like many other new graduates, after finishing high school, I was confused about what I wanted to do with my life and I didn’t want to take on a whopping student loan doing something just for the sake of it (I shared a bit about this when Alex interviewed me on his blog, Someday Syndrome). So I took a year off, to explore and decide. I say “took a year off” because that’s how it’s referred to in my family (mostly because my dad didn’t know how to explain what I was doing to his mates at work!). Here’s what I did on my “year off:”
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Written on
September 24, 2009 by
Cath
Tomorrow we head back to Cape Town… for a few months. We’ve come to think of our lives in 6 to 9 month “phases” that correlate with a move to another continent. For years Andy and I have had very different change cycles (He’s definitely a Revolutionary and I’ve always been an Evolutionary), but these days we’re finding that we both feel comfortable making significant changes in our lives every 6 to 9 months or so. One of the things that makes it easier for us to regularly make big changes as well as the little tweaks that have kept us aligned with what we love, is the regular “review and redirect” process we use. So if you’d like to align your life more with what you love, or get better at making big changes, here’s how we do it, along with a bit of an insight into the big and small changes Andy and I are making right now.
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