Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

With all the recent changes affecting careers work (relegation of careers work to conference fixtures in the Economic Well Being Non-League championships) and the dessimation of the Connexions rebels by the Dark Lords of the Empire I have been harbouring delusions about dropping out. Well, not so much dropping out as doing a bit of […]

Things are not great in the careers publishing field at the moment, what with Connexions being disbanded and going back into Local Authorities or not as the case may be, and schools struggling to cope with the 14 - 19 developments, Diploma Gateways and the Personal Development Curriculum and well, everyone with their minds on […]

I am currently doing some NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) training and what fun it is! The trainers are great - Nigel Pugh and Mark Harris (who is like Alexi Sayle on speed!) and I am learning how to reprogramme my brain to get me to do the things that I want to do. So changes […]

I am just reading a book about a blogger in Iraq, Salam Pax, who writes a blog called Where is Raed? which is still running. It is a fascinating blog, which gives an insider’s view of the events taking place in Iraq. Salam doesn’t take sides but just tells it like it is, as someone […]

Not posting to this blog very often at the moment.
Am working on a new business idea - all very exciting - will reveal all in the near future. Mike too is pushing on with his arts idea too. Chez Highflyers is bubbling with excitement. It might all come to nothing but as Charles Handy says, […]

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Attended a really excellent conference at the end of last week in Reading, run by the University Centre for Career Management Studies. There were lots of really good speakers including some of my favourites, Pauline […]

I have been thinking about my New Year’s resolutions. I set myself some every year and try to achieve them. They tend to be more the ’setting myself a goal’ type than the ’stopping doing something’ sort. First though I try to work out how well I did on the previous year’s goals. Well last […]

I got to thinking the other day about the careers advice I have been given in my life (by Careers Advisers) and whether it was any good or not. Interestingly I can remember my interview in school when I was told (well maybe not told, but that is how I remember it ) that […]

I have decided that, actually, I don’t much like Christmas. I tend not to see much of my family (it’s a long story which I don’t care to repeat) which makes it hard for me to get into the swing of things (I have much better family gatherings at regular intervals throughout the year, but […]

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Had our annual Christmas day walk in the Dales. Gosh it’s lovely up there. The moss covered dry stone walls are absolutely beautiful and a sign of really clean air. Interestingly, we saw more walkers […]