Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

I gave a presentation the other evening at my local Creative Network about my trip to the CMI Conference in San Fransisco which they very kindly funded via a bursary. To an audience of about 70 artists, designers and crafts people (’creatives’, hence the Network) I talked about what I had learnt from the trip […]

Reading a great book at the moment called The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science. It’s the book behind the newspaper article I posted on, How to be happy at Work, which is how I got onto the book. Anyway, it really does have a good look at the whole […]

I have just signed up for an AGCAS course entitled:
Stress Busting, Happiness & Creativity: an NLP way

A course to inspire and motivate staff to be their best.
Discover 5 levels of happiness and apply them to your own life,
Discover the strategies used by happy people,
Learn how relax deeply to melt stress away and try laughterobics.
Includes loads […]

Yesterday I took the first step to sorting out one of my long held (and never acted upon) goals to get my teeth straightened and whitened. I had a brace fitted to my top teeth - apparently they have to straighten that a bit first before they put the bottom one on. 24 hours later […]

Am still mulling over my Personal Brand as I slowly plod my way through the Reach Branding online training package. One of the things I had to do in last week's tutorial was write down all my goals for my life and my work, including ones I daydreamed about but never did anything about. The […]

Decided to rearrange the furniture in the main sitting room the other day (following a visit by plumbers to change the radiators) and the new layout looks much better. When Mike came in from the garden I said ‘Look at this room, doesn’t it look better laid out this way?’ He studied it for a […]

As part of my Personal Branding training I had to find out how other people around me, saw me. So off I went to the University (where I work one day a week as a Careers Adviser and lecturer) and asked my colleagues 'What do YOU think is my greatest strength?' and 'What sort of […]

I started work on my Personal Branding workbook last night, as part of the Reach Branding programme, and quickly found myself struggling to work out what my brand is. I thought this would be easy but it isn't. Anyway, I had to break it down into a number of component parts starting with 'What are […]