Some good friends of mine have pushed the fund raising efforts for Tsunami victims one step further with the opportunity to bid for not one, but two honest opinions. If you haven’t donated yet here’s you’re chance to do so by bidding on eBay. Happy New Year To All On Tuesday morning (11th Jan) the [...]

The end of the year is drawing to a close. It’s possible you have one outstanding question to answer. That of, “What sound does a butterfly make?” I was playing with my daughter in the back yard of our house. We had been singing Old McDonald Had A Farm and after progressing through the usual [...]

Merry Christmas everyone. Find yourself a moment to reflect on your blessings. If you need some help read this poignant story by Paulo Coelho.

My copy of The Tipping Point arrived today from Amazon in the US. I’m looking forward to reading it. Also in the box was Listening Leaders. I’ve been a subscriber to the newsletter for quite some time and really enjoy the information that comes through about the craft listening. And if you’re wondering why I [...]

In 1983 I started high school, Culture Club released Colour by Numbers, Dad won a Commodore 64 and a 3.5″ floppy-drive and Infocom had a couple of text adventures available for the C64 by the now infamous name of Zork. Sometime Christmas morning my brothers and sister were playing with their new presents outside so [...]

In the past week or so I have been finding a number of areas in my life where I am not getting what I want or moving forward simply because I haven’t granted myself permission. It’s a simple, yet powerful, question to ask. “What permissions have I not given myself?” Once identified you can then [...]

MetaMemes looks to be a great creativity tool. I love the sense of play endemic throughout the website as well.

In the days of fast email search engines such as Lookout and Bloomba should you bother trying to categorise or file the emails in your Inbox. Marc Orchant’s post on the matter got me thinking. I believe the Inbox should be empty. The argument for not filing says that you incrementally save masses of time [...]

As a Getting Things Done practitioner I used the suggested @Call context for phone and email. Then, when I began using ResultsManager, I shifted to its default of @Phone. This morning I’ve shifted again to the more generic @Contact context. As long as I know I have to contact someone it doesn’t matter if I [...]

Joe Gillespie is retiring and will no longer be writing any articles on Web Page Design for Designers. I don稚 think that there’s anything more pleasurable in life than helping someone. From what readers have written and told me, this site has given a great deal of help to a lot of people over the [...]