by Eugenie Verney | Jan 28, 2019 | Making Waves Blog, Uncategorised
It’s a year since I embarked on my 21 Daring Days, a challenge set by writer and storyteller Megan Macedo, founder of Be Yourself Marketing. And I’m back: poised to do it all again, to create a piece of writing for 21 days using Megan’s daily prompt. Only this year...
by Eugenie Verney | Jul 1, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
I’m just back from a magical week which started in the north-east of Scotland where I lived for 17 years and was followed by Orkney — a first for both me and my partner. And I’m still processing it all! We were truly blessed with the weather: all those years spent on...
by Eugenie Verney | May 16, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
The last time I raced a 10k was nearly a year ago and I’ve not been clocking anything much more than 5k in one go since then. It was therefore pretty clear as I stood on the start line of the All Nations 10k at Dorney on 12 May that I would be winging it. There’s...
by Eugenie Verney | Feb 20, 2018 | Making Waves Blog
It’s Day 17, and today the 21 Daring Days challenge is to ‘write about a lesson you learned from a non-work related activity that can be applied to your work.’ I’d never heard of the Jungfrau Marathon until I was skiing in Switzerland in March...
by Eugenie Verney | Dec 12, 2017 | Making Waves Blog
Today I decided it was time to start being me. I gave myself permission to stop trying to meet my own ludicrously unrealistic expectations of who I’d believed I should be — in my business especially — and just be me. Me, complete with my very own back story of...