I suggest that you start with how you feel! As we progress our careers many of us find ourselves needing to be more strategic. Our new Job Description can demand this of us, and yet, what does it mean? Oxford Languages defines strategic as “relating to the identification of long-term or overall aims and interests and the means of achieving…
Are you a New Year Resolution or goal setting person? As an alternative, I am allowing myself three best hopes for 2022: My first best hope for 2022 is to find my waist again. For me, this is a metaphor representing appearance, weight, health, and quite honestly, probably many more things too. What could get in the way? There is…
For the first six weeks of 2021 I had a diet of Willpower, Working and Walking. Then suddenly, one day, there was a sudden dip to Wallowing. The moment for Netflix had arrived. Big time. I didn’t know what to do, but one thing was certain, my energy to persevere had disappeared. My ability to persevere had served me well…
For my birthday, we made a lunchtime reservation at the only two Michelin star restaurant in Lisbon, Belcano. We chose a tasting menu, the “Menu Do Desassossego” – the Menu of Unrest (or Disquiet, as they preferred to call it). This menu was a delight with lots of courses, surprises, a feast for the eyes, an experience for our tastebuds…
A story about how positive emotions can combine. Recently my husband and I visited Lisbon for the first time. On our second day we travelled along the north bank of the river Tagus to the town of Belem, a place of huge historical influence, inextricably linked with Portugal’s “Golden Age of Discovery”. It was over 500 years ago, starting from…