Written on
October 1, 2009 by
Cath
We all have a natural desire to feel secure and change shakes up our lives, so we often feel insecure when we’re going through change. And then when we feel insecure, we avoid change or we try to control change by creating lots of goals and plans and rules… and then we end up being rigid and restricted and limiting our possibilities and results. I think we’ve all seen examples of individuals and organizations that haven’t been able to survive this recession and other big world changes because they’ve been too rigid and inflexible and stuck in the old rules of how things should be done. Those that are thriving right now are the individuals and organizations who are willing to challenge and change the old rules and assumptions and create new ones all the time.
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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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