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Explore the blog for both inspirational and practical articles on redefining success, personal branding and work-life integration as well as more personal reflections and stories from my travels.
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Reimagining success
Labels and Identity: who are you, really?
I’ve never liked labels. It feels so limiting to be put in a box, to form rigid expectations, and then […]
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Reimagining success
Letting go of good girl syndrome
When I was sorting through some old boxes at my family home some years ago, I came across my old […]
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Work-life integration
Work-life balance as a high achiever
I was triggered by a post on LinkedIn a few weeks ago. This post said that it was a myth […]
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Personal branding
The Curse of the Generalist
When I was younger, I was interested in everything and did well in all my subjects. In fact, school favours […]
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Work-life integration
When the problem is you (not the job)
Ever since I quit my corporate job back in 2013, I’ve been questioning the ‘9 to 5’ and everything that […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
When a small step is not enough
I’m a big fan of taking small steps towards your goals. In fact, I’ve built my business brand on this […]
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Reimagining success
When it’s time to redefine success
We don’t get up in the morning asking ourselves, “What does success look like for me today?” (although, I would […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
The curse of the high achiever
Working hard to achieve academic and professional success is commendable. We look to high achievers with impressive track records as […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Why you should go out of your comfort zone
Getting out of my comfort zone has been a big theme for me. In 2013, I declared, “Adventure is out […]
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Reimagining success
Five regrets of the dying
I came across the five regrets of the dying back in 2014, when I was transitioning out of my corporate […]
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Reimagining success
Defining success at work
The conventional definition of success that most of us would trot out focuses on career progression, wealth, and status. But […]
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Reimagining success
100 Things to Do Before You Die: How to write your own bucket list
It’s exactly two years since I wrote my bucket list while travelling in South America; I had been watching the […]
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Reimagining success
100 Things to do before you die: My bucket list one year on
One year ago, in July 2013, I was sitting in a hostel in La Paz, Bolivia, finalising a list of […]
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Reimagining success
Searching for meaning in life
It’s Valentine’s Day! This February, romance has become even more of an irrelevancy to me than it was in 2013 […]
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Reimagining success
Revisiting The Bucket List: Why are we all so concerned about death?
Something strange has happened to my blog. Or, rather, to the traffic on my blog. For the past few weeks, […]
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Reimagining success
The Bucket List: Top 100 things to do before you die
So I’ve realised that I’ve watched 18 films so far on this trip, most of them forced upon me during […]
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Reimagining success
A reflection about feminism
Did you miss me? We had a power cut in Uyuni and then I went on a tour to the […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Adventure is Out There: Into the Arctic Wilderness
I finally got around to writing up my experience of travelling into the Arctic Circle back in March; and what […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Adventure is Out There: A weekend of stand-up paddle boarding down the Thames
As I write this, water is hitting the windowpane as a steady drizzle continues on a dreary Monday afternoon. I’m […]
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Happy Midsummer! So what lights you up?
“What lights you up?” I was asked this question a few weeks ago and I just think it’s the most […]
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The benefits of travelling
When asked to list our interests – whether at the bottom of a CV or in a dating profile – […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Adventure is Out There: Night-time kayak under Tower Bridge
So who knew that you could kayak on the Thames? Just amazing. So much fun simply to be doing the […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Travel Maps and Travel Lists: Why this urge to visit more countries?
This week on Facebook has seen a proliferation of travel maps, tool from Matador Network that lets you see how […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Supermoons and Superstars – Where is the wonder?
Last Tuesday night I had a bit of a ‘WOW’ moment when I saw the remarkably large and brightly glowing […]
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Adventure is Out There: Wild camping north of the M25
I feel like I used to be more adventurous than I am now. I tried windsurfing and waterskiing on holidays […]
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Getting out of your comfort zone
Writing course on Skyros: Two weeks on the island of poets
Having written about my writing course at The Grange on the Isle of Wight last week, I couldn’t help but think […]
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