From the category archives:

Personal Development

How to be an Expert

July 15, 2010

We live in a world of ‘experts’. The sheer amount of freely available information out there, especially on the ‘interwebs’, mean we are all ‘experts’. In any field we want. All we need to do is read the Wikipedia article and a couple of forum posts and we know all we need to know. There [...]

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Fighting the Fear of Trying

June 17, 2010

I was watching my 18 month old son playing at the weekend. By ‘playing’ I mean causing general mayhem around the house. And I don’t mean to suggest I don’t play with him often – I just for once sat and watch HOW he was playing. You know what – he’s a persistent little bugger… [...]

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Bibliosnap – Bud Hennekes

June 15, 2010

Good morning/afternoon/evening. Welcome to another in my occasional Bibliosnap series – a snapshot of the blogs, books, articles, or even tweets that inspire and inform me. These are recommendations of places to go for great personal development or productivity content, deilivered by great writers with great writing. These are the contents of my bookcase and [...]

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What to do When the World is Against You

June 10, 2010

Life is tough sometimes isn’t it? You get home from work, collapse on the couch with a warm can of soda, and as it sprays it’s contents over your face and up your wall, you conclude that things are pretty much lined against you. And it is not just that things have gone wrong for [...]

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Don’t Believe the Slogans

June 3, 2010

Slogans are powerful tool. Advertising agencies are paid millions to come up with new ones which may capture our imagination, or even go viral on the world’s e-mail system. They are used increasingly in personal development and productivity too. Look at the last couple of books you may have read in these subject areas and [...]

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Bibliosnap – David Seah

June 1, 2010

So here is the third of my Bibliosnap series – a look at the blogs, books, and articles that inspire and enthuse me. These are the writers and practitioners who make me go and do that thing I have procrastinated over, or stop that thing I have worried over. This time it is Dave Seah. [...]

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The Chicken and Egg of Personal Traits

May 27, 2010

What have farm produce got to do with anything? Well, you know the old saying: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” It is a circuitous argument – how do you have a chicken if it wasn’t born from an egg? Yet how was that egg made without an earlier chicken. And this is [...]

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Improving Your Gravitas

May 25, 2010

Had an interesting conversation the other day with an old friend of mine. Like me, he works for a large organisation, and has been slowly working his way up the food chain over a number of years. He likes his job, and is good at his job. But he feels he has hit a ceiling. [...]

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Choosing Your Own Habits

May 18, 2010

We all have habits. This is not a bad thing. Well most of them aren’t. For want of a better phrase, they ‘keep you regular’. Habits run into pretty much everything that we do. Do you drive the same route to work everyday? Do you always have granola for breakfast? Coffee with two sugars? Habits [...]

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Bibliosnap – Hauke Borow

May 15, 2010

I read a lot. I read a lot about a lot. I’m one of those people who can lose days to Wikipedia – you read one article then click on a link that takes you off on a tangent, then from that article another link takes you on another tangent, and so on. This is [...]

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