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May 3, 20193 min read

Guiding principles #5 - Making a difference

The eagle eyed amongst you will, I suspect, have already noticed my 'lapsus calamum' with my blogs over the past few weeks! You will...

Jane Booth

Apr 27, 20194 min read

Guiding principles #2 - Connectedness

As I continue to write up my PhD research and further explore the themes that have been constructed through the analysis phase, I have...

Jane Booth

Apr 23, 20193 min read

Guiding principles #4 - Courage

Courage: the ability to do something that frightens one; bravery. Type 'definition of courage' into Google (other search engines are...

Jane Booth

Apr 12, 20192 min read

Guiding principles #3 - Integrity

This week my research has been focussed on the theme of 'courage', about which much has been written in recent years examining in terms...

Jane Booth

Mar 29, 20192 min read

Guiding principles #1 - Creativity

Over the past year I have spent a good deal of time working to better understand the things that are important to me and how these...

Jane Booth

Dec 11, 20182 min read

Are you feeling creatively curious?

If the answer is yes…then read on! This week has brought a whole heap of excitement (as well as more than a little nervousness) as I have...

Jane Booth

Oct 4, 20183 min read

Curiosity did not kill the cat...

In a previous blog I wrote about courage and the notion that courage is not about the absence of fear, but about how you face the...

Jane Booth

Sep 24, 20181 min read

To know or to do...?

A few years ago I challenged my team at the time to think about how we created a learning programme that was built more around the need...

Jane Booth

Sep 10, 20183 min read

Courage

Courage: the ability to do something that frightens one; bravery. Type 'definition of courage' into Google (other search engines are...

Jane Booth

Aug 20, 20185 min read

Why now?

On 20th September 2018 I will be holding a 'launch and learn' event to mark the next chapter on my Opus 29 adventure. An event that I...

Jane Booth

Apr 25, 20182 min read

Newton's Laws of Life?

For someone who has never really embraced the subject of physics or thought about it in any great depth, it comes as a bit of a surprise...

Jane Booth

Mar 19, 20183 min read

The value of connection

Tuesday 20th March is International Day of Happiness. Yes, you read that right... International Day of Happiness; a global celebration...

Jane Booth

Feb 12, 20182 min read

Behind my mask

What do you see when you look at me? What image fills your head? What do you take my look to be? What do you think I said? Why do you...

Jane Booth

Jan 30, 20183 min read

Life through a lens

How many types of people are there in the world? Google that question and you will get a whole host of different answers. According to...

Jane Booth

Jan 15, 20183 min read

Stop, look and listen

If you are a child of the 70's, as I am, and recall how you learned your road safety then you perhaps might recognise the words 'stop,...

Jane Booth

Jan 2, 20184 min read

Chaser of dreams...

As sources of inspiration go, Crocodile Dundee II was probably not a film that would have crossed my mind on the path to enlightenment!...

Jane Booth

Dec 18, 20173 min read

To know or to learn...?

In the world before the internet, smart phones and tablets, knowledge was power. Knowing ‘stuff’ used to be important. People who ‘knew...

Jane Booth

Dec 13, 20173 min read

Follow your heart...

My book of choice this week is entitled 'Feel the fear and do it anyway' by the author and psychologist, Susan Jeffers. It was first...