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Time to change your mind!
This is a talk that will make you think radically differently about the concept of ownership. The things we know with such certainty are the exact things we now need to question.
Welcome to 30 Days Of Change.
Ever feel like there’s a weight around your neck and that there simply has to be a better way? Do you find life surrounds you with the mediocre, and that you’re missing out on the things you want to do? Do you long to break out of the mundane and the ordinary, and to leap … Continue reading
Are you important?
We are part of something bigger than we can imagine. Our role today is a tiny part of a truly enormous picture we cannot begin to conceive. In that picture we all have a role to play, from the smallest and most lowly serf, to the grandest prince. Our future as a species relies on … Continue reading
Thirty Days Of Change – Growing…
When I went online the other day and checked our logs I was surprised to find over 1000 people had completed the Thirty Days Of Change online course. I get email about it from time to time, but other than that it simply sits here and does the job it was designed to do. Kary … Continue reading
Making it simple.
Life is actually a lot simpler than people generally think. In a world where politics does nothing but divide, where success is confused with greed, and nations proudly spend more on their military than on health-care, it doesn’t take much to realise there are some things that have gone fundamentally wrong. When we learn to … Continue reading
How are you identifying yourself?
Many clients come to us for help with self image and issues of self confidence. All too many times we see a disturbing common trait in the way they present themselves. Often their email address will contain a phrase or expression that is self limiting, or diminishes themselves somehow. It sounds so obvious, however the … Continue reading
In Pursuit Of Perfection
I learned a very good lesson while working for Intrawest Corp., in 2001. This was when the company was thriving and leading the world in Ski resort management. I worked for the VP of Marketing, and we were making advances in our data management and marketing which pushed the technological resources of the time to the limit. Continue reading
Overcoming Self Doubt
In 1993 a small region in South Sudan became the centre of some heavy fighting. A group of Irish nurses from the charity Concern were in the centre of a tiny enclave in the town of Kongor, operating under the UN umbrella of Operation Lifeline Sudan. As news filtered out to the aid outpost in Northern Kenya, from which the UN monitored the clashes in the war torn country, it became clear they were at considerable risk. Continue reading
Controlling Anger.
Many years ago in London the motorcycle couriers used to play a game with traffic. The work was extremely dangerous, London having some of the highest traffic density in the world. Riders were very much aware that a single accident could not only end their job, and destroy their motorcycle, it could quite easily result in severe injury. It was however well paid, and drew many of the young men willing to take a chance. Continue reading