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Start thinking environmentally…
Picture a Sumatran Orangutan. If we thought like most career counsellors, we would suggest she needed to be in an environment with lots and lots of other hairy red apes...
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Are you setting checkpoints?
I don't know about you, but at the end of each month I find myself thinking in terms of how far through the year we are...
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Reading the Grid: Diagonal Axes
In the work that we do with large organisations & corporate clients we often talk about the diagonal axes on the Grid...
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Reading the Grid: Understanding the Dimensions
Although it appears as 4 coloured boxes, it's important to note that the whole Grid is actually a fine-grained scale...
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Understanding Interest: Reading your Asterisk on the Grid
In case it never clicked for you, your Asterisk on the Grid marks the 'average' of your 10 Interest scores...
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Reading the Grid: a Map of Human Behaviour
Most of the hoozyu data is fairly straightforward, but the Grid has a bit more to it than immediately meets the eye...
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Explain Yourself with hoozyu
It’s a simple idea. Just tell me, who you are; what you need; what you want to do. Simple.
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What is a hoozyu workshop and what can it do for me?
There are some great things to be learnt (and often some very funny moments) as people share their hoozyu scores with each other...
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What's Next? How can you keep making use of your hoozyu data?
Think about how you may be able to apply your hoozyu data in your own unique context. What specific areas of your life could you develop, using what you've learnt about yourself?...
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Understanding family dynamics - using your hoozyu data
As we understand ourselves more through our hoozyu we also see how different others can be and begin to understand the dynamics...
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Updated hoozyu worksheets & materials
Last week we updated our hoozyu Printable Worksheets and Reference Materials...
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It takes courage
As 2017 drew to a close last week, I was reflecting on the importance of encouragement...
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Taking Stock & Starting Fresh
Wherever you are in the world, the start of a new year is a great opportunity to stop a while and take stock...
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How can my hoozyu help me face something new and challenging?
You face some big changes and challenges as you make the transition from school years to higher education - or into your first job...
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Where are you getting your energy from?
If I came up to you right now and asked 'what matters most to you?' how would you answer...
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Knowing myself better
Before I knew about my areas of interest, I didn’t know what I found really satisfying and what I didn’t...
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Skills for your passion
I recently spoke at an event, at a University here in Singapore, as part of a team of speakers organised by Tableau...
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Relax: There's going to be plot twists.
I didn’t know where to go, or how to start becoming any of those things I had imagined myself being...
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How hoozyu can help you make career decisions
Here’s three simple ways to use your hoozyu scores when it comes to thinking about your career choices...
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Exactly the wrong thing
How is it that people - even the people who are meant to know us really well - sometimes manage to say, or do, exactly the wrong thing...?
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Blind Spots
If you know you have a blind spot, you can check it regularly. But if you ignore the possibility, you may find yourself getting into an accident...
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A matter of perspective
Areas of Interest scores are primarily about Motivation and passion; but very high and very low scores actually start to leak across into perception as well...
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What can my hoozyu help me with?
Over the years many people have done their hoozyu and enjoyed that moment of discovering their results...
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The value you can create
One peril is to arrive in the marketplace, thinking that the world owes you a living...
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Preparing for recruitment
When you've finished studying, if you don’t yet have a job, and you really need one, something happens...
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Bad days
We often talk about hoozyu as if it's some kind of cure-all panacea. As if, once you get your results, you'll never feel lost or uncertain again...
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Promises
Inspired by an article sent to me a couple of weeks ago, I'd like to talk about promises...
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Did you enjoy your run?
My life is busy and I enjoy my work but the last year has felt pretty challenging. I have had to grow into a new work role which includes...
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Step One is not ‘wait for motivation’
Earlier in the week I read a blog post by Scott Young about how the first step to achieving any goal is always putting in that first effort to make success possible. For example, he says, if your goal is to get fit then ‘step one’ is actually leaving the house and going to the gym. If your goal is to be a writer, step one is just sitting down and starting to write.
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Struggling with this ‘motivation’ thing?
Ask almost anyone and they can probably tell you a tip or trick they use to stay motivated.
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Tooling Up
Motivation is all about keeping you engaged and energised, or at least turning up and working hard, right?