Freedom - Growth - Joy

That doesn't look like the headline for a professional article!
When I seek joy and only joy, all else comes to me. I know right now that I have a lot to learn, that I've spent far too long worrying about being professional, protecting my reputation, earning money, pretending I'm seeking freedom when in reality I'm frightened to set out on my own.
It has taken a real effort of will, and a real effort of surrender, to get to this point.
So I'm not trying to do what I ought to do.
I enjoy delivering benefits workshops, and helping people to understand what can be achieved, what you and I can each achieve, and to bring together the teams and the inspiration to achieve it. I enjoy the workshops, the knowledge transfer, the stretching that your questions bring about, and the nuances and fine tuning of ideas that result from every benefits workshop. I'm thrilled by the mental and intellectual demands that competence-based workforce planning, especially cross-organisation and whole community workforce planning such as School Health workforce or bigger than this, children's workforce, demands. And I lap up the adrenaline rush of gathering enough information to make an accurate but rapid assessment of where a number of initiatives and projects are, enabling the leaders of those projects to make good decisions about their future.
Live with passion!
Turn your working days into passion as well as your nights - life's too short to earn to pay the bills

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