The most important lesson I learnt from my Dad, was when to stop doing something, when to let go and leave. Everything he did in life (being a Dad, a master builder, a motorcyclist, a sailor, a teacher, a storyteller) he did with a certain Palmer Panaché and energy..... But he also taught me when and how to exit. He knew that you stopped doing ( Read more... )

After 3 months post work, it's easy to only see the things I still need to focus and work on....
- Rest and relax and read all those books/HBR magazines
- need to reset eating and exercise so I feel better
- Start really thinking about jobs?
- Reflect and blog more, get photos up to date

What am I already doing well? - learning french each day ( Read more... )

This is the valentine card that I bought mr.ncot this year - he really is my cup of tea!
And not only that, he always brings me fresh, hot cups of tea, when mine invariably go cold....

A new user pic therefore in his honour...


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This is the advice I summarized for myself from this wonderful LinkedIn Post on facing a redundancy....
Now I just have to follow my own advice :-)
And to celebrate, a new user icon! You can check out all my userpics here...


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I've realized that I need a period of convalesence, of just staying in bed, reading, watching netflix, sleeping ( Read more... )

Apparently what i've been doing all day
(according to Alan, and source found here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving)
is YAK SHAVING!

Yak Shaving is what you are doing when you're doing some stupid, fiddly likee task that bears no obvious relationship to what you' ( Read more... )

Today has been a long time coming, and as my sister said, since I'm leaving on the 29th Feb, I'll only have to remember this every 4 years...

I'm proud of myself - A wise friend asked me the following question some months back: "What do you need to do, so that you can exit your job with gas still in your tank and love in my heart?"And since then I ( Read more... )

Tuesday is always a busy, busy day in the office.

I had goodbye chats and hugs with:
Greta
Martijn
Christine
Vero
Lu
Leonie
Lu
Alexandra (Imbach)
Kathrin (Troxler)

.. and a lovely lunch at Miss Mui with the PD Ladies :-)

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Eldest walked into kitchen: "What happened in here? There's a really odd smell ( Read more... )