There's Always A Way
Tuesday, June 21 2005Dear friend,
I hope this finds you well. Making work work for you is proving an exciting challenge for many of members of our site. In particular, our career coach, Sue Clarke, has been speaking to many individuals who are keen to reassess and reinvigorate their working lives.
I'm going to hand you over to Sue to talk on this but before I do, I want to say two things that occur to me following the many e-mails that have come in:
1. Sometimes our family responsibilities mean that we may have to put on hold making major changes in our life.
I remember a conversation with the bestselling novelist Martina Cole where she said bringing up one child on your own and making a career or business work isn't impossible. However, having more than one changes the situation dramatically. She was talking from her own experience, where the father of her son had died while he was still a baby and not long afterwards she lost both parents.
At 19, Martina held down three jobs to make ends meet but she never gave up on her dream to be a novelist; reminding herself that it would happen when she had more time and energy. She was 30 when her first novel, Dangerous Lady, was published and she had worked on it for ten years. So, be careful not to be unreasonable with yourself if you feel you're doing everything possible to make the best of things.
2. At other times, in other circumstances, you may have to remind yourself that there's always a way to improve or radically alter your situation. Clearly, hiring a coach to work with you is the obvious and easiest option to support that.
And, for this week only our team are delighted to offer coaching sessions at a generously discounted rate of £55 for one hour, and £75 for 90 minutes. You can contact the team at this page. And if finances are an issue, Sue has come up with some other suggestions.
Over to Sue:
