I was made redundant on Monday. I was working for someone who used to be a friend. And I say used to be friends but not because she was my boss or because she made me redundant. As a mid-30′s woman running a very successful business, my boss was a very good friend of mine. She was positive, ambitious and funny and I looked up to her. She was the kind of person who made you feel good after spending time with her. It was getting increasingly harder to find time to spend with her though – we’d make plans, she’d cancel. We’d make more plans, she’d cancel them. She screened calls and never called back. She’s busy running a multi million dollar company, it’s ok, I understand! I then started working for her and got to see a very different side of her. She was stressed, snappy and in...

Reaching your long-term destination might feel impossible today as you try to sort out where you are in your life. But there is no time for self-pity; you have important work to do now. Don’t waste precious time because this small window of opportunity won’t remain open too long. Acknowledge anything that isn’t working and make changes as needed to get back on track. That’s my horoscope for today. They have been like this for the past year, telling me things are changing, that my life is coming to the point where I want it to be etc. On my igoogle homepage I have a widget which displays a Daily Horoscope. Horoscopes are funny to me – when they are good I believe them, if they are bad I don’t. I do like to believe in “the universe” and astrology and horoscopes but I also believe that you make decisions...

I could have sat for days trying to decide what to write. In fact I did. I didn’t want my first post to seem too new…like “Hi, this blog will talk about blah blah”. Then I wondered if I should start writing about a topic as though this blog had been around for a while, no introductions. I was browsing through my blog reader today and came across a post by a blog that I didn’t even realise I was subscribed to, Office Buddha, about choices and which is the right to make. The post resonated with me as it’s sort of how my life is at the moment. The right choice, and the one that scares the hell out of you are usually the same. At this point in my life I have a few things going on, things that I’m trying to make happen and I’m on the brink...