provides links to information management, information sources and other "useful stuff" with a strong bias towards the management of information in a careers guidance context.
As of 17 July 2017 I include mental health information and comment.
I tweet as @careersinfo and am on LinkedIn and Facebook as Hazel Edmunds
a post by Jonice Webb for the Childhood Emotional Neglect blog [via World of Psychology]
I have noticed that there is a great deal of confusion between the four common struggles listed in the title. Sometimes folks ask me if they are all the same.
The differences can be subtle and there can be overlap, yes. But they are all indeed different in some very specific ways. Ways that are important to understand as you think about your own view of, and feelings about, yourself.
So let’s start with a little “quiz.” As you read the descriptions below, see if you can identify which person has low self-esteem, which has low self-worth, who has low self-confidence, and who has low self-awareness.
Then read on to see if you identified them correctly, and also to learn much more about each of these common struggles.
a post by Margarita Tartakovsky for the World of Psychology blog
How often do you check in with yourself? How often do you simply sit and self-reflect?
Self-reflection, of course, is the first step to anything. Because it provides a compass. It guides the actions we take.
One of my favorite things to do is to use questions as prompts to self-reflect, because the right question can be so revealing. It can spark an insight we never would’ve observed otherwise. It can tell us what we need, and point us toward our goals and intentions. It can illuminate who we are.
Below, you’ll find 15 questions from the new book Know Yourself: A Book of Questions by Irene Smit and Astrid van der Hulst, founders and creative directors of Flow magazine. Know Yourself includes an illustrated question per page, 165 questions in total. Each one encourages us to self-reflect by being curious, honest, and open.
GoodReads link here £6.99 on Amazon UK other bookseller prices may vary but usually not by much (take care if you are purchasing as there are multiple titles that start with the same three words). PS. Found it for £4.25 on AbeBooks.
On 23 February 2017 the RSA held an event for an hour on the above topic.
‘The problem with the self-help ethos is that it privatises or individualises social problems. If there are no jobs it’s not due to your lack of positive thinking that you can’t get a job!’
The pace of modern life is accelerating, and the self-help shelves are groaning with advice on how to keep up – and stay positive in the process. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: anxiety, fatigue and depression are at an all-time high, and our social interactions have become increasingly self-serving and opportunistic.
Even as profound social and political events unfold around us, we are repeatedly distracted by introspection and self-improvement. Why are we so obsessed with personal change and growth, and how can we channel this tendency into something more outward-looking?
Leading Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann argues that we must not be afraid to reject the self-help mantra. The secret to a happier life lies not in finding your inner self, but in coming to terms with yourself in order to coexist peacefully with others.
The event was live-streamed at the time and is now available as a video on YouTube. I highly recommend that you take a quiet hour out of your busy life and listen.
And then move on to this much shorter piece (just over 11 minutes) which presents a different but complementary view.
The Dark Side of Self Improvement Suzanne Eder
TEDxWilmington
My career in information management started back in 1987 working on the Training Access Points project. Nearly thirty years later I am still concerned to ensure that end users, and their mediators, have access to appropriate, relevant information in a form that they can understand, at a time and in a place that is right for them. The Internet seems to be for everyone and everywhere but the digital divide gets bigger. By pointing advisers in the direction of resources I hope to increase what can be done to help clients/customers.
I ran my own company for 16 years but am now a semi-retired freelancer.
