Bob didn’t notice his inbox at first. He opened his laptop every morning, coffee in hand, telling himself today would be different. Today he’d clear things. Get organised. Feel on top of it. Then he saw the number. 3742 unread emails. His stomach tightened. Not panic. Not fear. Just that familiar background pressure. The kind […]
There’s not a day goes past without us hearing gossip of some form or another, whether it be on social media, TV or just in the office. I read this little story about gossip and thought I’d share it, it’s called the “Distillation test!” The philosopher had just spent another hard day at the university
Hope for the best, plan for the worst is one of my favourite strategies of all times, is very stoic and over the years has served me well! On the face of it ‘Hope for the best, plan for the worst’ sounds like quite a pessimistic phrase, doesn’t it? Maybe it’s the ‘hope’ part; it
Common courtesy: we all know what it is, and we all know how it makes us feel when we receive it. And how we feel when we don’t – that person walking in front of you and not holding the door open, someone who doesn’t say, ‘thank you’, when you hold if for them, and
Are you planting Bananas & expecting to pick Cucumbers? In my experience life is all about cause and effect, do you remember learning at school that every action has an equal and opposite reaction? Call it what you like, cause and effect, sow and reap, action & reaction one thing is for sure we are
Rushing into December last year and in the run up to Christmas I had several people say to me “I just don’t know where this year has gone!” or “Time must be moving faster than ever!” or “There just aren’t enough hours in the day!” or derivations of these statements relating to time. It got
When I was a young man of 23, my business partner and best mate Jamie and I used to stop off on a Friday night and have a beer in a pub called the Queens Head and as we were enjoying our pint a young ex public school boy used to drop in and have
On a daily basis I get asked for a tip for business or advice on how to fix a problem in one of my clients life. So I’ve put together 10 little bits of wisdom that might just change the way you see things going forward. My challenge to you is to pick one that
As a performance psychologist, and someone who talks to business owners on a daily basis, some who are my clients and many more who are not, I’ve heard an incredible number of reasons why businesses are struggling or failing. I know that 99 out of 100 times that a reason‚ really isn’t a reason at all,
What is it about change that we, as humans don’t like? Is it because we see change as a risk? The truth is, living is a risk. Happiness is a risk. If you’re not just a little bit scared sometimes, then you’re not doing it right. Don’t worry about mistakes and failures, worry about what
