Pick Me
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'This book is not refined, I am not a writer. But I wrote this book for you.' <br><br>Whether you are navigating your way through studies, taking your steps in the work place, carving out a career, or analysing what you have started and where you want to go, this book will inspire you to see how you can make good choices for yourself, work, and in relationships. Having done my twenties, these are the tips I give you to empower you to choose well and be chosen in work and life.<br><br>Philippa works in Organisational Learning and Development as a Soft Skills Trainer and Career Coach. This is her journey – the highs and the lows and a few tips she picked up over the decade, for likeminded, high achieving, urban living, made for purpose people, wishing to make their life work better. Narrated through her own journey, she shares her excitement, fun, the expectations and the real life challenges. This book gives opportunity for reflection – to enable you to choose how you live, and what you can do to be the person you want to be. This is her story on how to get picked for work and life.
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It’s cold and I am 14, standing on the grass hockey pitch waiting to be chosen for a team. Standing there. It is a popularity contest. Who would have thought that is what it came down to? It didn’t seem to matter that I was good at sports. I still had to stand there waiting to be chosen, sometimes last.
Choice is a funny thing. These days we have so much opportunity but so much choice can be overwhelming; what to watch, to listen to, where to live, what to wear, (even what hair colour). We can choose friends, nights in or out, how to behave, respond, and we have choice in what we do. But within the mix of our own choices our lives are impacted by other people’s choices too. How we handle these choices can define who we are and how we navigate life.
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I’ve lived and worked in London, England for a decade. Sitting on the tube (the London Underground), looking at the hands of my fellow female commuters, the many girls who are ring finger bare. What does it mean? Are we not special enough to be chosen? A while back (in a serious relationship myself) I looked at these girls feeling sadness for them, I felt I was one of the lucky ones. Picked, chosen, life moving in the ‘right’ direction. What a crash when it ended, feeling like I was back on that cold hockey pitch.
Life is a series of experiences; some good, some bad. When it is bad how do we pick ourselves up off the ground? We need support to dust ourselves down, and when we are ready, boldness to do it all over again.
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