Carmel O' Reilly's Blog, page 19

5 Steps to Help You Craft Your Powerful Origin Story

Your origin story is your backstory that reveals how you - the protagonist, became the leading character in your WorkLife story. Like a comic book hero, your story needs a history that tells how you gained your superpowers and became a superhero in your WorkLife story. 

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How To Define Refine and Enhance Your Power of Empathy

Aisling wanted to help people define and refine empathy as a character trait with a view to making small essential changes to enable achieving what is important in their WorkLife relationships. Following on from this, to continue to learn how to make precise changes to be as effective as possible.

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A WorkLife Change Is Needed When Values Are Out of Sync

The Journey From Research Engineer to Urbanisation Planner Ted’s Story: A Case Study: The Journey from Research Engineer to Urbanisation Planner A WorkLife Change Is Needed when Values are Out of Sync Your values are your beliefs about what is important to you in your WorkLife. They can change over time. They form the coreContinue reading "A WorkLife Change Is Needed When Values Are Out of Sync"

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Lifelong Skill Learning in Shorter Bursts of Time

Discover the effectiveness and manageability of daily 30-minute learning sessions Lifelong Skill Learning in Short Bursts of Time Experiments I recently tested if I could learn a lifelong skill in one hour a day for one month. You can read about my experience in Learning Portuguese One Hour a Day for One Month (the answerContinue reading "Lifelong Skill Learning in Shorter Bursts of Time"

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Learn the Art of Crafting Captivating Stories From Beginning to End

Discover How to Create Engaging Opening Lines and Develop Your Ideas LECTURE To Learn the Art of Crafting Captivating Stories From Beginning to End. You need to Discover How to Create Engaging Opening Lines and Develop Your Ideas. Many Stories Grow From a Single Sentence The opening line to your story can be simple, eloquent,Continue reading "Learn the Art of Crafting Captivating Stories From Beginning to End"

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Use Your Character Traits to Make a Meaningful WorkLife Journey

The wisdom he had taken from the book gave Tom the courage to move away from the straight and narrow path of auditions to explore new pathways in pursuit of his artistic goals. It gave him an inner strength to believe in himself and served as a reminder not to compromise but to stay truthful to what he wanted to explore. 

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A Struggle to Understand How To Make Your Values Matter

Your WorkLife Your Way Make Your WorkLife Work For You A Struggle to Understand How To Make Your Values Matter: A Case Study: Sienna’s Story:  A writer and creator, Sienna was struggling to understand how to make her values matter. As an artist, creating was such an integral part of her very being. Creating hasContinue reading "A Struggle to Understand How To Make Your Values Matter "

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Learning Portuguese One Hour a Day for One Month

Lifelong Skill Learning in Short Bursts of Time Learning Portuguese One Hour a Day For One Month The idea for testing if I can learn a lifelong skill in one hour a day for one month came from Learning in August by Seth Godin. With a holiday to Portugal on the horizon, I decided toContinue reading "Learning Portuguese One Hour a Day for One Month"

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Lifelong Skill Learning: Rediscovering My Native Language

Relearning Irish Reawakened My Love for My Cultural Roots Lifelong Skill Learning: My Journey Back to (Re) Learning My Native Language  Growing up in Ireland, learning Irish (Gaeilge) was part of my daily school life. But because I didn’t live in a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) area, I didn’t speak it outside of school. And when IContinue reading "Lifelong Skill Learning: Rediscovering My Native Language"

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The 5 C’s of the Storytelling Arc to Help Tell Your Story Part 2

School of WorkLife helps you self-direct your WorkLife learning through resources that have been created to help you to take ownership of your learning in your own space and in your own time. 

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