Focus you are doing really well. I understand what you mean about professional and personal life. I've gone from strength to strength in my work but socially I've done little to nothing, just dedicating myself to S. Reading your posts I think you have done far more than me in this respect so keep being positive!
Thank you. Been thinking lots about what you said, about how I know people see me professionally, and how they talk about me professionally too. In my management jobs I've been described as: 'having a quiet authority', 'leading by example', and 'the most positive person in the building' (some of the phrases I've been most bowled over by, from some of the bigger jobs I've done over the past couple of years).
And I'm trying to carry those lessons over into my personal life too, especially the first two. Maybe I need to start a little further back though, by unpicking the qualities I think that might be inherent in those phrases?
Perhaps some of that will help make me in to a more solid person? Raise my self esteem a little? I still feel it's low. It was low anyway, before all of this. I would love to be one of those people that you meet that you just know won't take any rubbish from anyone. And will be quite forthright about it too.
Maybe that's another pathway along that road. Who knows.
