Advice

When it comes to your work, are you more driven by what inspires you, or by what scares you? Are you willing to speak up at work, transition your career, start a new business or take on a great big job, when there’s the possibility that you’ll fail? Fear is the number one emotion that stops us from living the lives we most want.

When my oldest child was barely two I had to take a two-week business trip to London and New York.

A job for life is no longer a prescription for success.

I was telling a friend how I used to race from my office to my son’s kindergarten classroom every Friday at 10.

Have your strengths – those things you like doing and are good at – ever gotten you into trouble at work? It sounds counter-intuitive but new research suggests while many workplaces have started to advocate the use of your strengths, there is a real potential for what you do best to become a career-limiting weakness.

Five years ago I joined the Board of Netball Australia as the appointed director.

There are times when I feel incredibly proud of what I’ve achieved.

Most afternoons I phone my 14-year-old son at around 5pm to make sure he is at home and safe, following the bus trip from school.

Managing your time well is not about being perfect.

Over a coffee with a business colleague this morning I learned that she suffered clinical depression when her first child was born 15 years ago.

We now have mums AND dads who stay at home, mums and dads telecommuting, people juggling toddlers and many managing or mismanaging aged parents.

The perfect friend for a career-minded woman is another time-poor female because no one gets hurt.