Ready, Set… be still.
“First ponder, then dare.” Helmuth Von Moltke. In a world besotted with action and busyness, how much time have you given to consider how effective all that frantic activity has really been? This is a perfect time of year for such contemplation. From my perspective, I view the Christmas and New Year period positively and […]
Items of Dubious Value
When it comes to de-cluttering I have procrastinated like a pro. It’s not that I don’t like clean and productive spaces to work and live in, it’s just that at times I get super confused about what should go where, what to keep and what to let go of. This little phrase, ‘items of dubious […]
How Effective is ‘Your Thinking’.
There are 5 limitations to thinking which were defined and brilliantly articulated by John Vamos, the creator of Business Coaching Systems and co-Author Karen McCreadie in their book ‘The Elephant and the Business Laws of Nature’. These limitations impede your ability to maximise the effectiveness of your thinking and as a result, compromise the success […]
How Effective is Your ‘To-do’ List?
From time to time, people who enthusiastically start their day with the desire of being effective express frustration in finding that they didn’t make any progress, despite the fact that they identified what they needed to do and even reminded themselves of it several times during the day. This challenge is often a result of […]
How effective is your ‘Dashboard’?
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” This is a contentious statement with proponents lauding its validity and opponents arguing that there are many things that cannot be measured, yet still have to be managed. I’ll let you decide where you sit in this argument. In the meantime, can we at least agree […]
Fail Your Way to Success
The following is the story of one man’s journey. He failed in business at the age of twenty‑two, and failed again in business at twenty‑four. He was devastated by the death of a sweetheart when he was twenty‑six, and subsequently had a nervous breakdown when he was twenty‑seven. At thirty‑four, he lost a congressional race, […]
2019. WOW… that was quick!
I wonder what your hopes and aspirations were for 2019. Are you now starting to bask in the glory of your significant achievements or are you just grateful to have made it through? Does 2020 hold the hope and promise of greater things and if so, how will you make this happen? What will be […]
Arouse In The Other Person an Eager Want
Great leaders truly understand and apply the wisdom of this principle to empower their teams. I discovered this principle originally when reading Dale Carnegie’s classic book, ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. The first place that we come unstuck in trying to get others to do tasks that they don’t enjoy is by trying […]