Monday yawns and Lifts a lazy head. Time for coffee... Or five more in bed? Tuesday insists that It's Thursday already - I'm work worn and Emails just might overwhelm me. Wednesday declares that The worst is behind us But lengthening to-do lists Push next order of business. Thursday is buzzing - The weekend's in [...]
This past year I have been mentoring a student, meeting with them at least once (often twice or three times) a week, to support them with their studies and help them work through the various stresses and anxieties that were proving to be barriers to confidence and success. It has been an incredibly rewarding process, [...]
No one saw it for what it really was. When they saw him striding the halls and directing their meetings, they assumed the freshly pressed suit and perfectly knotted tie were simply business dress. They didn't know that, when he got home at night and loosened that restrictive strip of fabric, the rest of him [...]
We spend so much of our lives working. Sometimes we just take a job that will pay the bills but, if we are lucky, or if it is in our power to do so, we can create opportunities for career development that will enable us to earn a living doing something we love. I've been [...]
Well the chaos has definitely been thriving over here the last few weeks, which as you may have noticed means my lovely little corner of the blogosphere has been rather quiet. So I thought I'd give you a little insight into my current busyness, just to reassure you I'm still here... Buying our first house [...]
I saw this video on the wonderful flow magazine blog and it kind of fitted with a recent recurring train of thought. So I figured I'd share it with you... THE GAP by Ira Glass from frohlocke on Vimeo. I used to know exactly what I wanted to do. I had a plan. I was [...]
This is what my desk looked like today. In fact this seems to be what it looks like most days at the moment. I would like to think it is organised chaos. It's not. At the moment I work in a big secondary school, in a pastoral support role, and boy is it hectic. I like [...]
Thrive In Chaos 