My first job taught me the discipline of work. The next taught me how to juggle that most precious resource called time. The third taught me about professionalism. My fourth introduced me to self development and networking. My fifth taught me we are all limited by self imposed boundaries. Six and I learnt about creating [...]
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Over the recent Christmas break my attention was taken by the simple and powerful idea that what we do today sets us up for the success of tomorrow. John C. Maxwell writes about the concept and his experience applying it to life in the book Today Matters. My experience of self improvement books is that [...]
There are some interesting ideas in The Next Trillion by Paul Zane Pilzer. I read the Australia and New Zealand Tour Edition which is an abridged version. Let me declare that I own a business which sells products in the wellness industry but have no interest in sales of this book. Here I’m relaying Pilzer’s [...]
Following in the footsteps of Michael Bungay Stanier I have signed and affirmed the Charter for Compassion, a global effort to raise the awareness of compassion in the world. This simple act had me thinking about compassion over the weekend and how it comes about. There are people in the world who are naturally compassionate. [...]
In July 2008 I began the daily habit of selecting something I was grateful for and noting it in my diary. Gratefulness is one of the most powerful emotions we can have and for me the daily habit of reflecting was a moment of quiet and stillness as the world rushed around me. My experience of being [...]
We have to hear the minute detail about people’s lives in order to build the social trust to hear the bigger things. Twitter and other social media bridge this gap with the people you don’t know so well.
