My wife and I have just attended a prep grade information session which explained how reading, writing and maths are being taught to our youngest daughter. The teachers suggested we help by pointing out shapes in the home and asking what they are then follow up with, “How do you know?”. For a triangle we [...]
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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 [...]
An open loop is something which is pulling on your attention. I have a few from 2009 relating to Quantum Gardener which I will close today lest they fester and end up consuming more and more of my time. 50 book challenge (2009) In 2008 I successfully read 50 personal and self improvement books in a [...]
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. [...]
Starting April 2008 I set myself the challenge to read fifty books in a year (April to April). My goal was to radically increase my knowledge by developing a habit of daily reading. I have now posted the details of the challenge itself, last year’s success and this year’s progress.
I’ve just added the classic “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill to my recommended reading list after powering through it in a week. It taught me a lot about finding my passion for what I really want to do and incidentally was an interesting lesson in the history of the United States in the [...]
Clarity is always important. Megan Casey over at SquidBlog provides a great tip and example of how clarity can enhance a book referral. If you read it and apply the principles, you can see how you can expand your blog linking as well. If you network, the same applies there as well when describing ideal [...]
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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 [...]
