When life gets on top of you and you are confronted with what seems like insurmountable problems, turning your life around may seem like an impossible dream … but kickstarting that process is far easier than you may think.
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We all know the old idiom: “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!” But many of us never get to embrace this sage advice because we are too fearful of failing. ‘Success’ is overhyped as the ultimate goal that we humans are expected to pursue in life. We
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I start today’s post with an acknowledgement of the source of my inspiration. I had to travel for a meeting this morning and chose to tune the car radio to my favourite talk station. The programme host was in discussion with a Malawian gentleman by the name of Namon Abe
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I appreciate that you probably opened this article more out of curiosity than actual belief in finding a recipe for changing the world. And that’s fair enough, given that we live in a world characterised by over hype and under delivery! But I ask you to bear with me. Have
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In Part 1 of this topic, I wrote about the importance of having the courage to bring about change in your life. Change is endemic to life. You can choose to embrace it and make it happen for you, or you can try to ignore it and allow it to
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No doubt you have heard the saying: “May you live in interesting times.” This is, supposedly, the English translation of an ancient Chinese curse! The Chinese language original has apparently never been found, although some say that the curse was based on a proverb that reads: “It’s better to be
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Some of you may be pleased to hear that I’m keeping this post relatively brief. Why? Well, partly because I’m in celebratory mood, and partly because Jenni and I are very busy preparing to embark on a new adventure – on the personal front, not the work front – that
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In a previous post, What is True Freedom, I argued that freedom is as much, if not more, an internal state of mind as it is a commodity that is given to us or taken away from us by other powers. With today’s media dominated by harrowing stories of how
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Ask ten people what keeps them awake at night nowadays. My bet is that the word uncertainty will feature in at least half of the responses. Most would agree that our world has become a lot more uncertain recently. But what do we really mean by that … and is
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This will be my final post for 2021. I look forward to taking a modest break from writing during the holiday period and will reconnect with all of you wonderful readers during the second week of January. We’ve reached the end of another tumultuous year. Many of you will breathe
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As we slowly begin to emerge from the doom and gloom that descended upon us as the global pandemic struck, with its many nasty consequences, many of us are left thinking “What now?” In today’s hectic world, an opportunity to think and reflect can often be ‘just what the doctor
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So, during the holidays you decided to blow away the negativity of 2020 and make a great new start in 2021 with a compelling resolution. And now, you’re well on your way to get it done in 2021, right? Well I’m so sorry to prick your bubble with this –
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It seems like an age since we were toasting the advent of 2020 and what many of us hoped would be a bright, shiny new year marked by peace, prosperity and a comforting degree of certainty. Fast forward to today and, I think it fair to say that most of
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I was considering calling this post ‘Lockdown Living’. But, if you are anything like me, the mere mention of words like lockdown, coronavirus and Covid-19 are enough to cause a glazing over of the eyes and a feeling of serious fatigue! Insights, is, after all, not a term that you
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“May you live in interesting times.” This phrase, often attributed to Chinese philosopher Confucius who lived around 500BCE, is commonly cited as the translation of an ancient Chinese curse. Interestingly, though, no definitive Chinese source for this saying has ever been found. Perhaps the most closely related Chinese saying is:
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The term chaos is derived from a Greek word meaning ‘void’ or ‘chasm’ and is used by astronomers to describe the state of cosmos prior to the formation of orderly matter. In common day-to-day use the term implies a state of confusion and disorder. Many would argue that that is
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This week I’d like to offer a follow up to the original post, A Coaching Case Study, that I presented as a post some weeks ago. The theme of the case study is how ordinary people like you and me can achieve quite extraordinary things with the help of a
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In this, the first blog post for 2019, let me start by wishing all subscribers a very happy and prosperous New Year! Cynics will smirk and say that’s a rather hackneyed phrase that we trot out, ever hopefully, at the commencement of yet another year! The point in the earth’s
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Lewis Carroll’s rather zany poem, The Walrus and the Carpenter, is the unlikely inspiration for today’s post. And though I happen to love oysters it has nothing to do with the odd duo’s unsuspecting victims! “The time has come,” the Walrus said,“To talk of many things:Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–Of cabbages–and
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