There’s something empowering about the thought that the future doesn’t exist yet. All the products we’ll be using and projects we’ll be working on and successes we’ll be celebrating in 10 years’ time are as yet but latent, unimagined options, waiting to be light-bulbed into being. Some people think the future does exist, of course, […]
Read MoreChange of career? Tidy of desk? Finish of article? Decide of life? Often it is that we have the impression of something important niggling at the nether reaches of our consciousness that we really should be getting on with. Most of us have experience of putting things off until another day, that flagging of enthusiasm, […]
Read MoreThere are many reasons why we can’t, or often don’t want, to see the real problem in a difficult situation. Once the actual flash point has been identified though, potential solutions will flow boosted by the motivating belief that they will actually have a positive effect. The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it […]
Read MoreThis is a good one. Not only is it true (as far as I’m concerned), it’s got a cool play on words, and to cap it all, it’s short! What more could you ask for in a cute pithy quote peeps? And talking of word play, try saying the last four words of the last […]
Read MoreThere are many possible reasons for hating your job. Or even just being indifferent to it. They’re all tragedies in taffeta. Dump them, burn them or turn them on their heads. We spend maybe a third of our lives ‘working’ – that is, doing stuff which brings us money to carry on living. Isn’t it […]
Read MoreSteven Covey wrote the hugely successful and influential ‘The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People’, which sits on my bookshelf behind me (with yellowing pages!) as I type. His approach is based on a deep analysis of principles, values and habits, leading us from dependence, through independence to the highest level, as he sees it, […]
Read MoreAdmittedly, I’m a sucker for cute little aphorisms and pocket-sized proverbs, whether or not they’re true or still valid. Many have become popular and often cliched exactly because they do refer to simple home truisms which we like to wheel out given any vaguely appropriate occasion. For me though, the best of these reality-bites, to […]
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