Diary of a Slightly Reluctant, Regularly Technologically Frustrated Social Media Start-Up.

Since writing my last blog on my social media exploits things have been a bit of a LinkedIn whirlwind! As I write this I have a total of 119 contacts. I have been proactive but Continue reading →

Diary of a Slightly Reluctant, Regularly Technologically Frustrated Social Media Start-Up.

Last time I blogged I had set up a LinkedIn account and created a profile.

Exploring the opportunities LinkedIn presents was exciting and filled me with optimism. Navigating the site and working it all out was Continue reading →

Diary of a Slightly Reluctant, Regularly Technologically Frustrated Social Media Start-Up.

As previously blogged, I am going to make a concerted effort to get more social media savvy. I have half-heartedly tried before and unsurprisingly not had much success.

Over the summer I am going to have a decent crack at making it work and I will record my experiences here. Those of you who are Continue reading →

Diary of a Slightly Reluctant, Regularly Technologically Frustrated Social Media Start-Up. 

Been to several social media workshops and found myself listening to the bleedin’ obvious for much of them. I went along feeling like somewhat of a dinosaur, but found myself surrounded by others who knew even less and Continue reading →

I watched Katie Piper last night on Channel 4’s, ‘My Beautiful Friends’ with sheer admiration. Katie was a model and budding TV presenter when in 2008 she was permanently disfigured Continue reading →

It is often at times when you lose a loved one that you actually stop and think about how precious our time on this earth is. This is the position I find myself in at the moment. Along with thinking about my Continue reading →

I was interested to find out this morning that today (third Monday in January) is the day in which we are the most miserable out of the 365 that make up the year.

As a life coach, this got me thinking, what can we do if we are feeling the blues today? Continue reading →

I sat down to write this as a pretty predictable piece on keeping new year resolutions. Well, it is January and I am a life coach after all! Before too long I was bored of it myself! What I was saying was spot on in terms of a life coaching guide to setting realistic resolutions and Continue reading →

In his recent Father of the Bride speech my Dad mentioned a book I bought him for his birthday called,  ‘Not Quite What I Was Planning’.

The book is inspired by the legend that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. He responded with the following, ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’.

SMITH Magazine challenged their readers to create their own six word memoirs and they received many and varied responses: Continue reading →

Contemplating my new blog, I found myself thinking about a trip I made many years ago whilst in Australia. I was on a trip with other random bods, as with open trips like this there was typically a mix of people, ranging from the one I got on with and stayed in touch with to Continue reading →