I used to joke that I didn’t have a work Christmas party because the boss wouldn’t let me. I’m self-employed. A few thoughts on permission, rest and the rules we carry about work.
noticing
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Part of a series about the secret questions we ask ourselves, often without saying them out loud. Why didn’t I trust my gut? Perhaps you’ve asked yourself this afterwards. You look back and think you knew. There was something you noticed. A feeling you had. Something that didn’t quite sit […]
Part of a series about the secret questions we ask ourselves, often without saying them out loud. When do I get to just live my life? Perhaps you’ve wondered this. Maybe not out loud. Maybe it’s appeared as a fleeting thought while you’re driving, in the shower, lying awake at […]
I recently took a family member to a hospital appointment. It was one of the first appointments of the day and, because the traffic had been light, we arrived earlier than expected. The computerised check-in wouldn’t let us check in, so I assumed we’d simply got there too early. Off […]
Yesterday I found myself wondering whether momentum might be gentler than I’d always imagined. It felt like an interesting thought, so I decided to play with it for a while. Not by trying to prove anything. Just by noticing what happened. Then something unexpected happened. An idea arrived. I let […]
After a few weeks away from LinkedIn while I was limiting screen time because of my eye, I found myself wondering how to begin again. It wasn’t that I’d forgotten how to write. I’d simply lost the rhythm I’d fallen into. As I was thinking about it, I noticed the […]