Becoming aware of your enemies of learning can quickly open up new possibilities for understanding and development. Jen Drechsler has created a list of things to listen for when attending focus groups. Are you saying the same things, or similar? As you read each of them note the external focus. Most suggest it’s the fault [...]
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A student recently wrote a letter to my local paper seeking advice on motivation. My life is at a turning point; I’ve finished VCE [Year 12] and am now faced with the question of what I want to do with my life…I’m interested to find out what people do to get, and stay, motivated. I [...]
Recent events in my life have forced me to focus on what is really important. I’m looking at a new business opportunity that will have me coaching full-time. With that has come a new sense of peace and reduction in pressure to complete certain self-appointed projects. I have become more selfish (in the true sense [...]
I really connect with the quote by E. M. Forster as posted on the Gurteen Knowledge Log. I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. I’d like to think syncronicity has [...]
This is a photo of Charlton. He and I have been together ever since my wife gave him to me when we were first going out together. That’s now about 13 years ago. He travels with me when I’m on my own and my family is at home. Charlton and I have been to London, [...]
Often we can find ourselves in a mood which doesn’t suit what we are trying to achieve. And we would like to shift it to a more beneficial mood. One powerful way of doing this is reconnecting with music that takes us to where we want to be.
Coaching In Action I walked to the middle of the circle holding my name tag in my hands. Turning around to face the other course participants I held up my name tag and declared in a voice from the centre of my being, “This is my name tag but this is me and I am [...]
It is a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete. I choose to share. The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We [...]
“Be very, very careful what you put into that head because you will never get it out” Thomas Cardinal Woosley I came across this quote this morning in reference to the coriolis effect on flushing toilets. Those of you familiar with this piece of “knowledge” will recognise that the water in a toilet spins in [...]
