This weekend, take a break from your job, but give your career a boost. Try these 14 simple things you can do to advance your career online and offline. They’re all quick enough to squeeze in between Friday and Monday while still giving you plenty of time to sleep in or hang out with friends. Things to Do Online to Supercharge Your Career 1.    Post a new picture. Photographs are often the first thing visitors notice about your profile. Start out with a high-quality image. Use Photoshop to adjust the lighting Continue Reading →

Did you make a Resolution? Every 1st of Jan, most of us make a New Year’s Resolution. Be it eat healthier, go to the Gym more, keep in touch with friends? Here are this year’s top 6: Learn a new skill or hobby (26 percent) Quit smoking (21 percent) Read more (17 percent) Find another job (16 percent) Drink less alcohol (15 percent) Spend more time with family and friends (13 percent) Hope you are managing to stick to them. Traditionally, only 8% succeed in keeping their resolutions whilst a Continue Reading →

Darkness to Light Today I was up much earlier than normal, it was still dark and the world around me was mostly asleep. Whilst waiting for my transport, I looked up to the sky and could see the a band where the darkness ended daylight was making an appearance. This was an amazing sight and one not seen by many. It made me think of the phrase “seeing the light at the end of the tunnel” I’ve used this phrase myself many a time when talking with others. Often times, Continue Reading →

All pent up? During my recent break for the summer in sunny France, I was experiencing some network connection issues. This was down to the local cell masts being saturated with all the holiday-makers. With the advent of free roaming in Europe, most holiday-makers were consuming more internet on the go in Europe which lead to a saturation of the local networks. The local area in the South of France where we were  swells by a factor of 5-7. So a few days into our holiday, we had all lost cell Continue Reading →

Intuitively we all know that if you want results then you need to know what it is you want to achieve, otherwise how are you going to know if you have achieved them? These are often called Goals or Targets. What not to focus on When working on your goals is important to focus on the effort and NOT the result. Yes, I’ll say it again, focus on the effort and not the result. Focusing on the results will not help achieve the goal. In fact focusing on the result Continue Reading →

You can go it alone You decided that this year is your year. You are doing pretty well with your New Year’s Resolutions OK, let’s be honest, you have slipped a few times but after a break of a few days you’ve gotten back on track. After many past attempts at New Year’s Resolutions you have decided to make this work. But this year is going to be different. You have loaded the bases in your favour. You’ve bought a book or two on self-improvement; read them all the way Continue Reading →