Had a bit of a boost this week from Isabel Berwick in the Financial Times who plugged this blog in her regular 'Working It' piece published weekly. Sent my subscriber numbers through the roof from 1 (my mum) to 3 (actual people whom I'd not related to. Probably).
It all came about from her previous blog where she described the benefits of work journaling, as advocated by one of her readers, an inspirational speaker and author Ollie Henderson, who submitted some examples. I then replied that I do something similar, albeit in cartoon form, and coached that it's actually a bad idea because what should be ideas kept in the deepest recesses of your brain, well...they come flooding out and all of a sudden you have a confessional urge to publish them.
Isabel's prompting has triggered me to re-engage with LinkedIn. We'll see over time whether this is 'career-defining'.
One challenge raised by a reader about work journaling is that it may be discoverable and actually the property of your employer, which is as Orwellian a question as you can conceive. Imagine that. Your thoughts are owned by 'the company'.
In which case, I feel we have a duty to make them as embarrassing as possible.
Haha
Accountants’ in-joke