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| LEADING ARTICLE: HOW REAL IS THE GLASS CEILING? |
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Nikki informs us that she is an ambitious, full-time working mother, in a senior position, in her 40's and that she has reached a crossroads in her life. This is a state of affairs that many of us who have reached 40 and beyond will recognise, but I suspect that most of us carry on regardless in the hope that we can head off our mid-life crisis.
For Nikki the question is whether to pursue her career and confesses that she is not sure whether she has the desire to push through barriers to promotion to board level. Rather than bury her head in the sand ............read more |
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| MY STORY: PROFILE OF JANE KENYON, Founder of Well Heeled Divas |
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Jane Kenyon is a dynamic entrepreneur involved in several businesses, including Well Heeled Divas, and works as a coach specifically with entrepreneurs and speakers.
Tell us your life journey is 2000 words please Jane - gulp! Well here goes….
I am in my forties. I was brought up in a wealthy, middle class family. My father was a very successful entrepreneur, a millionaire by the age of forty. My mother had two roles in life - to oversee the kids (I am one of three, but we also had a nanny) and to look good on my father's arm - she excelled at both I reckon, but ............read more |
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| MY JOB: STELLA KEMP in a maximum security prison |
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Stella Kemp describes in her own words what it is like to teach in a maximum security prison.........
My yoga teacher brought me to the prison in 2000. She was asked to teach some of the inmates in 1998. One of the most notorious paramilitary operators of the troubles, ‘The Border Fox’ was to become her student at that time. The thick grey stone walls seemed to cast their shadow inside—it felt so cold when we went in, and to this day the tenperature is always remarkably cooler inside. That first day.............. read more |
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| MARIE - CLAIRE TEACHES YOU HOW TO BECOME A MONEY MAGNET |
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What is your vision for the world you live in?
What inspires you to go that extra mile?
If you are struggling to find your inspiration, it is time to slow down a little. So many of us are rushing around trying to get everything done and yet feeling as though we haven't moved forward one step from where we were a month or even a year ago. If this sounds like you, STOP!....and congratulate yourself for taking a moment to actually sit down to read this column. I know for some of you, it may be the only time today that you actually press the "PAUSE" button in your life.
"There are never enough hours in the day!" How often have I heard ........ read more |
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| DIARY: How...and why... to run the London Marathon |
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What is it really like to train for and complete the London Marathon?
My name is Nikki and I am 44 years old. I started running at the age of 40 because I didn't want to be 'fat and 40' and didn't want to spend loads of money on a gym membership; plus I hate the gym anyway. I'm always the fattest person there! So running was, cheap, easy and could fit in around my job/kid/home.
I started running with a friend who was an experienced runner. We entered a few running meets and........... read more |
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| MISSION IMPOSSIBLE...your guide to writing mission statements |
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Phil Birch has developed a unique methodology that allows you to manage your resources and tasks in a co-ordinated business model.
We start at the very beginning with the MISSION STATEMENT
In the many, many meetings that I have had with business owners, entrepreneurs, managers, company boards, department heads and, just as importantly, those key individuals working in the operational activities of a business the issue that generated the widest spectrum of responses from participants was that of Mission Statements.
During the "fact-finding" phase.....read more |
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| ENTREPRENEURSHIP...advice from our business correspondent |
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It's nine o'clock in the morning. It's raining. I've been pacing and deliberating over which business topic to present in our first issue. I want it to be motivational and inspiring, and to represent the principles of our journal, namely independent and informative, with hopefully, a small amount of intuition thrown in for good measure.
So where do I go for this inspiration?
I decide to focus on a subject close to my own heart; entrepreneurship. I start to rattle away on my laptop to find a definition of entrepreneur; I like this one the best......read more |
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| BUSINESS FINANCE...advice from our business correspondent |
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The financing of your business is the most fundamental aspect of its management. Get the financing right and you will have a healthy business, positive cash flows and ultimately a profitable enterprise. The financing can happen at any stage of a business's development. On commencement of your enterprise you will need finance to start up and, later on, finance to expand.
Finance can be obtained from many different sources. Some are more obvious and well-known than others. The following are just some of the means of finance that are open to you ....read more |
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| SOLUTION FOCUSSED LEADERSHIP |
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This article is a personal statement based around research work conducted into Solution Focussed Leadership. This method is based upon Solution Focussed Therapy (SFT), created in the 1980s at the Brief Family Therapy Centre in Milwaukee by Steve de Shazer and his team. The unique feature of SFT is that it focuses on solutions and not on problems. As such it matches my own outlook in looking for answers not dwelling on problems.
The idea has been transformed into Solution Focussed Education by a remarkable lady called Kerstin Mahlberg who, together with Maud Sjoblom, has implemented the methods at the FKC Mellansjo School outside Stockholm....read more |
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| A DAY OUT IN THE FARNE ISLANDS |
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The Farne Islands are major sactuaries for breeding sea-birds. We join a day-trip to Inner Farne to spend the day with the puffins and terns!
As a teenager I was sure that I was going to be the female David Attenborough or at the very least become Jaques Cousteau's beautiful assistant. Despite a degree in zoology, life took me down a very different path. Which means that I have a deep, unfulfilled love of nature and, just in case anyone at the BBC reads this, I am still home alone, waiting to be discovered.
The islands are billed as "the most famous sea-bird sanctuary in the British Isles" ....read more |
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| SHOOTING STARS at the EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL |
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EIFF was one of the world’s first international film festivals, and helped to define the type of event that has since become so pivotal to film culture in nations all over the world.
We get an insight into life shooting the stars on the EIFF red carpet.
Celebrity - No thanks!
It's the Edinburgh Film Festival again and I'm in the press pen for the main red carpet event - the opening film, "Away We Go" directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty et al). ............ read more |
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| RECIPES FOR YOUR HOME, WELL-BEING and HOME |
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Over the coming months in our section on "staying in" we will provide for you various herbal and natural products and solutions for you to consider as alternatives to the over-the-counter products. Not only are these alternatives, simple and easy to make, but they will also save you pounds on your weekly shopping bill ! Additionally, as all of our suggestions will be made around herbs and natural products, they will be better for you and the environment.
Each month will provide product recipes for your home, your well-being, and your body....read more |
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| SIMON BROWN - Acid or Alkaline - Why worry? |
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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
An overly acid condition is associated with headaches, arthritis, indigestion and even an increased risk of cancer. There is much speculation that our immune system is less effective when we our too acidic. As stress and over acidity tend to go together an acidic condition can be associated with any stress related illness. If you feel unwell and you are also acidic the obvious remedy is make yourself more alkaline.
But how............. read more |
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Bach Original Flower Remedies were developed by Dr Edward Bach, a Harley Street doctor and well known Physician, Bacteriologist, Homeopath and Researcher. Edward Bach was born at Moseley, near Birmingham, in 1886 and trained as a doctor in London.
For several years he worked investigating the role of bacteriology in chronic disease. As a bacteriologist and later a pathologist he worked on vaccines and a set of homoeopathic nosodes still known as the seven Bach nosodes. His researches led him to recognize that there were clear personality types that related to the various patterns of ill health............ read more |
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| VOLUNTEERING - A personal account of befriending |
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I had been considering volunteering for a few months. I work from home and wanted to do something useful within the community and something that would involve me working with people. I had no real idea of where to start and if the skills I have would be of any use to anyone, so I popped into the local volunteering centre to get some ideas. The first number they gave me was for Corbenic. I have travelled along the road to Dunkeld hundreds of times but didn't know that the community existed so I was intrigued and made an appointment with the befriending co-ordinator. I was immediately impressed. The grounds are stunning and the estate is set in the beautiful Perthshire hills but ............ read more |
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| MAGGIES MONSTER BIKE and HIKE |
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Maggie's Monster Bike & Hike is now in its 6th year and is a 24-hour fundraising team challenge. The event goes from Fort William through to Inverness covering 73 miles along the Great Glen Way.
Teams of between two and six people start out early in the morning at Fort William, Scotland. The first stage is by bike and covers the first 30 miles of the Great Glen Way to Fort Augustus. Now, when I think bike I think gentle pedal around the leafy lanes of the Cheshire plain, maybe stopping for a pie and a pint along the way. This is not that kind of cycling! I have to confess that I haven't taken part in this event, neither have I walked this section of............ read more |
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