There’s one thing I can say about blogging daily: it seems to keep you in touch with each day (if that makes sense). It’s been a week since I was last here, and it literally feels like a week has just vanished into the ether! I’d rather see days vanish one by one, than weeks!

• One of the things that has prompted me to change careers as I have, is the desire to somehow be making a difference. In many instances people hoping to make a difference feel it is for the benefit of others and the greater good. “Making a difference” though is many things to many people, a point that is underlined in Career Change: How to Make a Living by Making a Difference, and there are a surprising number of ways your work can indeed make a difference!
• It’s one thing to loathe your career, it’s another to complain endlessly while doing nothing about it. So let’s take a few leaves out of Hunter Arnold’s book. Or blog. “I’m constantly amazed by the sheer volume of American workers who have nothing positive to say about their jobs, yet aren’t even in the market for a new one.” The problem is not just confined to America either! “How awful it can be to work in a job where you feel unfulfilled or unappreciated, but you have the power to change it!” Exactly right - redirect all that negative energy and look towards a positive outcome.
• Ok, so how to be “positive”? Well, it can be as simple as complimenting someone…
• Not so much an article on career change as such, but “Dealing with Change - Could You Make It?” at For Career Success Blog, puts the process of change in a very day to day sort of way. “Muscle tissue regenerates every 6 to 24 months. Our bones are replaced every 4 to 7 years. We have all new red blood cells every 90 to 120 days, and our intestinal lining changes every 5-25 days.” Indeed the only constant is change.
• Only the other day I threw out a bunch of old keys that I hadn’t touched in ages (some, if I remember rightly, are from places I haven’t lived in for years…), and now I spot “Energy Suckers Stealing Your Joy? | Tolerate No More!” at Blast O’ Joy. It’s amazing the amount of energy and drive we can pick up after getting rid of the things that are clearly “surplus to requirements”. Including, may I say, jobs and careers that are bogging us down!