#0466 Curb or Canyon
When was the last time you crossed a road? Today, yesterday, possibly many times this week. How much consideration or pre-thought went into it? If you are able-bodied, you likely briefly stood on the curb,…
Tag: Achieving your Goals
#0465 First Dates
When you go out on a first date there will rarely be a moments silence. The chatter is constant and often kept relatively light as you check each other out. As a relationship develops, there…
#0464 Pay Attention
One cannot simply ask the audience to pay attention, one must earn it. I don’t know why I wrote that sentence using posh language but maybe subconsciously I did so to make you take notice,…
#0463 The Bridge
Some Sydneysiders would argue we have the most beautiful harbour in the world with its centrepiece being the Sydney Harbour Bridge. In all its engineering beauty it can also be Sydneys biggest bottleneck. If ever…
#0461 Switcheroo
There is plenty of both… Time and money. Whatever you have you choose to either use it or abuse it. Why do something now that can wait until tomorrow. Focus on the things that will…
#0460 Turn Off Autopilot
Autopilot is another way to describe habits. Getting up at a certain time, putting your shoes on a certain way, driving the same route to work. We form these through our lives as a way…
#0459 Core Principles Matter
There is a guy called Dan Kennedy who is often referred to as the grandfather of Marketing. The guru to the gurus. If you trace the success of almost anyone on the internet there would…
#0458 Controlled Chaos
Every two weeks or so one of my daughters gives her room a good clean. Puts everything in its place again and it drive me insane. Not the cleaning part, that I applaud. The 13…
#0457 Simplicity Takes Effort
The thing I love to do as part of my work more than anything else is to simplify complexity. If I can reduce the clutter for myself it allows me to better communicate it to…
#0456 Personal Brands
Well before social media there are countless examples of enduring personal brands. Napoleon, Shakespeare, Darwin, Einstein and the list goes on. Of course back then you had to have done something of historical significance which…
#0454 Surprise and Delight
If you would like to blend into the background keep doing what you are expected to do at a steady pace. Being efficient, being productive, getting shit done is the expectation, anything less is disappointing….
#0453 Take a Moment
Three sheets is all he needed. A long time ago worked with a Project Manager Joe, who blew me away with his foresight. When everyone else turned up to project meetings with thick folders jammed…
#0452 The True Cost
Thinking back to the simplicity of my parents generation. They provided a home, food and clothing, one phone, electricity and water, we watched free to air TV, radio in the car and once in a…
#0451 Always Acquiring
Whenever I venture to the local hardware store for something costing maybe ten dollars, to my wife’s disapproval I end up spending two hundred plus on a few more things I may or may not…
#0450 Resilience and Perseverance
How hard can it be? After all, millions of people every year start a business, attempt to get fit, pick up an instrument for the first time… and millions fail. Yet millions have also succeeded….
#0449 Diligence
Making a decision on samples of one will see you zigging and zagging at every turn. Allowing a single person or event to determine your fate is a practice observed all too often and I…
#0448 Micro Actions
“If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would get done” Are you one of those people? There is probably not a person on the planet who has not left a task until the very…
#0447 Baller Level 11
Not sure if it was confidence or ignorance. Driving down a narrow single lane road the traffic had slowed down to a crawl and I could see a few cars ahead a runner who looked…
#0446 The Game
Not sure I would play cards with you if that is how you play the game. Always looking for shortcuts, life hacks and cheat codes to win at life. And who exactly are you competing…
#0445 Competing Priorities
Calm on the outside maybe, but on the inside it drives me nuts. I have had to learn to be patient with others and temper my expectation of when something will get done. Years ago…