Career Blog

You’re not given your résumé with your birth certificate. You create your life and you can recreate it. Navigating your life is like being on the open seas. You can cling close to the known shores or you can set a more exploratory course. Mark Twain used the same metaphor. Reflecting on his own life and achievements he had this advice: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.

Gretchen Rubin dedicated a year of her life searching for satisfaction. One day she realized that "time is passing, and I'm not focusing enough on the things that really matter." Her journey and conclusions are summarised in her inspiring book "The Happiness Project" - the story of her approach to changing your life. While Gretchen Rubin, a former lawyer and the author of New York Times Bestsellers, started her research she focused on three questions: 1. Is it possible to mak

When we use the word “passion” it normally means a deep personal attraction to something - a strong affinity or enthusiasm that can lead to profound enjoyment and fulfilment. Passion is a form of love, which is why people who are in their element will often say that they love what they do. There are many sorts of love. There is love of family, romantic love, love of friends, of places, of things and activities. We usually have in mind when we talk about loving cooking, athlet