Good Enough

Perhaps the New Year has gone straight to my head, because I suddenly have the unwavering confidence that I should start a website for corporate survival stories. I've even thought of a name! I thought writing a novel would be a step too far, but short anecdotes from work and how to handle awkward or difficult situations would be achievable.  There are a lot of maybes swirling around my mind at the moment, so there is more thinking to be done on the subject, so that I have a clearer idea of what I want to achieve but also because I feel that with more certainty will come more confidence that this is a good plan.  In the end, it could only be helpful to me, writing down everything that has ever happened (within reason) to me in a corporate environment would allow me to see how far I have come if nothing else. Add a little tick to add to the reasons to be proud of myself list. Another selfish reason that this may be useful, is that if I find myself in a situation where I am unsu...

My gripe with resolutions remains unchanged, if there is something about myself that I want to change or something that I would like to try or aspire to do... why must I wait until the 1st of January to do so? I quite like me, are there little things I would change about myself ... probably, but none so drastic as to set myself an unrealistic goal because of the date and then beat myself up about it a few months down the line when I haven't achieved it.  One thing that I will probably never be able to change about myself in January is the unyielding desire I have to buy a pretty new notebook, and then spend the entire year wondering what to do with it! Aside from that, will there be a new me? Yes. Because that is the point of life, to grow, to develop, to discover new things that impact ways of thinking. There will be new holidays to go on, new languages to try and learn a week before I go on that holiday, new adventures to be had, new books to read, new crafts to try, new friends ...

In an attempt to do some more seasonal crafts, I went back to candle making, I find it calming to have a candle flickering next to my laptop while I work at home, and after realising that making something from scratch is quite rewarding I thought "give it a whirl girl".  So I have recently started to make them as gifts, and when better to make a little home made present for friends than at Christmas. What started as a little hobby, descended into chaos when I uncovered the world of silicone candle moulds. Initially, I was melting the wax and refilling old jars and pots to make new candles, but when I moved into making them as gifts I realised that not everybody has the same aesthetic preferences so it would be best if I gave fun shaped candles instead. I found a swirly mould and a hexagonal shaped one, even a ghost, but the one most suited to this time of year is of course the Christmas Tree. What made this even more fun, was that I now have a candle wax melter. No longer do ...

The time of year where simply showing up to the office is more than enough is finally here! I'm sure those who are committed to working full steam ahead up to Christmas Eve would disagree, but to me and my more amicable colleagues it is annual "that's a January me problem" time of year and it is in full swing. Which of course means it is time for entertaining conversations, recently an entire day was spent planning a birthday party with no detail spared on food or decorations, but a recurring theme lately has been personal colour analysis so I thought it was about time I saw what all the fuss was about. There are all sorts of responses to this online, rave reviews about how it will save money when shopping, build confidence because the colours compliment people better, and how an outfit will all but assemble itself from a wardrobe which has been refined by a personal colour analysis. It all feels very serious, so I decided to run a quick question and answer session to...

Another holiday, another book spirited around the world only to not be looked at even once. I am nothing if not a creature of habit. I thought I had been very prepared to remember to take a book with me this time and to not pay airport prices for some holiday entertainment, alas even waiting in the airport for my return flight I found myself scrolling through holiday pictures rather than reaching for my book. I'd chosen to read this because I had noticed a few people around me being more down than usual. I'd pinned it on winter blues, it being colder, close but not close enough to Christmas, but when people are seemingly needing a lot more encouragement regarding themselves, what is there to do? Normally, a good book will have the answer! It took less than a chapter before I understood that I could never be a therapist. Barely a few pages in and I found myself making a judgement, which was ironic because I immediately happened upon a section of conversation about judging people...