Category: Personal Development
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Five Micro Skills Essential to Your Sanity and Success in Life, Your Career and Relationships
A different take on how to equip yourself for the future. This is a companion article to my friend and colleague Jade McAndrew-Barlow’s “These 5 Micro Skills Give You Career Agility”. I take a different approach to Jade’s excellent one, so that all the bases are covered. Photo by Icons8 Team on Unsplash As the last few years…
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The Power of Words
Words have the power to enable or disable, empower and disempower. So with great power comes great responsibility. As someone whose life’s trajectory (see an earlier article) has been focused on development and growth, I have seen over and over again the impact words can have. For some of my students, friends and family a few…
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Just How Stupid is Career Planning?
If you are like me, you were taught the importance of career planning. What we were taught was wrong. Let’s examine why. I remember sessions in school when we looked at career possibilities and discussed, for those of us who were heading towards what in those days was considered a career, how to craft a…
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Tips for Parenting a Dyslexic or Neurodiverse Child
Having your child diagnosed with dyslexia or one of the other neurodiverse traits can be a traumatic situation that often leads to the panic of what to do to help. Since every neurodiverse person is different, what to do can differ greatly. But beyond the issue of specific treatments and assists, there are some principles…
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The Benefits of Having Diverse Friends and How to Learn from Them
I am blessed with having friends of all sorts, from so many countries, religions, ethnicities, experience and professions. There are values in such diversity that you may not expect. Photo by Duy Pham on Unsplash Context I am very lucky that I live in a society that is diverse and multi-cultural. Where I live, in Melbourne Australia, is…