🛠️ What Am I Doing?

May has been a big month for me, both personally and professionally.

This month, I was offered a two-year contract to work full-time for the States of Guernsey. I accepted the offer and will be starting at the end of June. It’s a really exciting project: leading the development and implementation of a training strategy to support job seekers. I’ll be working for the Social Security department.

To practise what I preach about boundaries, this change means my coaching and training business will be “on pause” for the duration (including my content creation (doodles and podcast) and email newsletter).

Accepting this contract was a big decision. I’ve loved running my small business over the past few years, but splitting my attention across the business and my employed role at the charity has been challenging at times. I am looking forward to focusing on just one thing for a bit and finding a new routine.

I plan to keep this Now page up to date and perhaps post a little more regularly on Instagram (my personal account). There’s also LinkedIn for professional updates. This website will remain live, although I will change the messaging to make it clear that I am not taking on any new clients at the moment. My content (doodles, etc) will remain accessible.

So… all change!

📺 What Am I Watching?

My IMDB Top 250 Film Experiment continues; I’ve watched 10 films from the list so far. I am not sure what tonight’s film will be yet.

I just finished watching The Testaments (sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale), and it was amazing.

🧠 What Am I Learning?

My ukulele experiment is finished: I played 10 minutes a day for a month and managed to play most days. I actually found the daily practice quite challenging, and it didn’t bring me the joy I'd hoped for. But that’s useful learning. I think if I do another musical creative experiment, I need to focus on an instrument or practice that is accessible anywhere (for example, if I try a new instrument, it needs to be small and light; something I can carry with me easily). With the ukulele, I needed to be in my office with a music stand, choose some music, etc. I am going to think about this further. Perhaps I need to dig out my recorder…!

🎧 What Am I Listening to?

I’ve listened to two amazing audiobooks this month (The Correspondent and Yesteryear: see my library below). And I am still really enjoying The Book Club podcast.

📚 What am I Reading?

Take a look at what I am reading here: Martine’s Library.