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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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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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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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6 Things To Do When You Can’t Sleep

May 11, 2010

Insomnia hits us all to some extent at some point in time. Maybe it is the night before a big presentation. Or Christmas Eve . Sometimes it is a longer term problem – a month, a year, or something you just live with. I’m not going to give you a list of ways to help [...]

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Do You Really Need to Know Anything?

May 6, 2010

From the day that we are born into this world we learn. At first through play, then through graft, and finally through experience. It is part of our nature, our culture, and our society. Some of it is sub-conscious learning. A fair bit is voluntary learning. And the balance is required learning. But there has [...]

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Happiness is…

May 4, 2010

Happiness is… …waking up with a smile on your face. …always thinking “I like what I have”. …enjoying now, before wishing for tomorrow. …being with people who only want your company. …enjoying everything you do rather than trying to only do what you enjoy. …realising you don’t need a reason to smile. …being comfortable that [...]

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How Many Good Intentions Do You Miss?

April 27, 2010

“I get up at 6am and hit snooze rather than getting straight up. This means I don’t have time to go for a run, and get straight in the shower. I skip breakfast and jump straight in the car – can’t face listening to the news headlines this morning so flick some music on and [...]

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