Folks,I thought I’d mix it up this week. Here are three of my favourite pieces of content taken from the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People for you to ponder 🙂.The goal of listening is to sit on the same side of the table as the person you...

Folks,The best idea wins - such a simple idea, but so difficult to implement. Let me give you an example: A friend of mine attends a weekly meeting. At the meeting, if the developer speaks up everyone listens, the same is true of the Sales...

Folks,Are we really on a mission, or are we just in practice?We might think the mission is to run 5k, get a flat stomach, or return from a knee injury, but is it not just practice?If you are organised to complete the task that’s a mission. However, i...

Folks,“No pain, no gain.” We know it’s not true, but we also know that it can be true. The question then is one of context and perspective. If you can put up with a little short-term pain for a long-term payoff, then you might invest. But, few o...

Folks,I love this question: What will it take to stop you?Yes, there’s the bravado, and here it is: This weekend, I ran the 5K Parkrun with my nephew. It was a proud moment on several fronts. After more comebacks than Rocky, and having promised...

Folks,Plenty of food for thought this week:If you know the book The 7 Habits for Effective People (Book notes to follow), you will know it’s a chunky monkey. At the start of the week after a few false starts, I finally finished reading it.Let’s talk...

Folks,If you told me that you had taken up yoga and that you now felt better for it, I wouldn’t be surprised. And yet, when I reintroduced a daily yoga practice, I was surprised at how good it made me feel. Wise after the fact - hindsight bias. ...

Folks,This week, looking at my blog content, I talked about self-help, depth of work, and rhetoric. But I’m going to lead with a journal entry I found this week:“If I get it right, I don’t need to be right.”What do I mean?Quentin Tarantino was o...

Folks,Here in the UK, we are past masters at telling people what we can’t or won’t do. “I can’t do Sunday, but maybe I can do Tuesday.” or “I don’t want to lift too much weight and get too bulky; I want to stay athletic.” You get the idea. And y...

Folks,And that word is “audit”. The word “audit” comes from the Latin word “audire,” which means “to hear.” An auditor would “hear” the accounts being read aloud and verify their accuracy. In short, as we get on with making sense of the world, t...