Richard Maun

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  • Three Simple Rules For Success

    A rule of three!

    If you’re working on a tricky project, looking for work, striving to build your business, or making personal changes in your life then here are three simple rules for success:

      1. Make your own luck

      2. Trust your intuition

      3. Keep going

    1) Luck – sadly many people just get on with things and assume they’ll know what to do, the classic one being job hunting. I’ve worked with many good people who have grumbled that they can’t find any work, and yet they have had no training, read no books or spoken with any professionals (pub mates don’t count). We can make our own luck by getting help, talking to new people, sharing a problem, networking widely, starting a new direction and/or signing up for a training course.

    2) Intuition – we can know we want to do and can make good decisions if we learn to trust our intuition. We can ask friends and colleagues to help us generate options and we can then trust our own judgement to choose the one(s) that we feel will work the best for us.

    3) Keep going – it takes time to become successful and when we’re thinking of progress often we’re stuck in ‘today’ and would ideally like a quick fix. However it can be smarter to really think about where we would like to be in two years time and make sure we take care of ourselves so that we play a long game. We can achieve life changing things in two years – if we acknowledge that it can take time to make significant steps and we keep going to achieve them.

    Those are three cool rules, founded on experience of work and life. Which one do you need to pay most attention too?

     And if you had a fourth rule …what would it be?

     

    (If you’re interested, this post is almost the entire second chapter in my new book – called Bouncing Back – which is currently being written and will be published in the Summer. Other chapters are much longer though!)

  • Our Happy Valentines Modern Career

    A heart made from the love seeds of the sage tree. The seeds bring love and peace to people who have them.

    It would seem that poor old Valentine is having to do a full week of work this year as people extend V-day into a week of loving celebration and generally lovin’ it up. And there is nothing wrong with that – if you love someone and can’t tell them this week, in the face or massive commercial prodding, then maybe you have a problem. However, as well of thinking about others, we also need to think about ourselves and the work we do.

    In our Modern Career we might have several job changes, work for a variety of organisations and/or have several mini-careers that follow each other like a crocodile of happy children all holding hands.

    If we love our work then life is sweet and the days speed by. If we don’t, then life is a prison sentence and we spend 40 to 60 hours a week locked up longing for escape.

    I love what I do and enjoy the helter-skelter imbalance of coaching sessions, training work, being writer-Rich and being radio-Rich. It wasn’t always like that and I hated my first few jobs and struggled with work for many years …until I learned to love myself and to do work that I love.

    Rather than focusing on where we are now, as we’re already here, let’s wind forward to next year …and ask ourselves:

    1) What am I going to be doing this time in 2013?

    2) What am I going to do maintain the love I already have, or to find something new to love?

    In this week of Valentines we can learn to love ourselves and to recognise that we’re super people who work hard and can enjoy a great modern career. As for me, I shall be loving an Eccles cake on Tuesday. Mmmm …cake! I love that too!