#0493 What Inspires You
Talking to a mate about the notion of retirement. It seems that employees want nothing more than to work through to retirement and call it a day. Entrepreneurial types however cannot think of anything worse….
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#0492 Keep Executing
Just finished a three month major internal project. The easy thing to do would be to pat myself on the back and take a well deserved break. Instead I took a moment to celebrate the…
#0491 Show Up
I have a red chair in the corner of my office, it serves two primary purposes. It is my thinking chair, a place to contemplate the big ideas, the strategy, the future. My writing place,…
#0490 Enslaved
Who controls your time, your most valuable asset? The majority I encounter are enslaved to the whims of others as to when something needs to occur. Meetings, reports, proposals, first drafts, final versions, the unexpected…
#0489 Connecting
In my work helping organisations embrace storytelling as a means to convey a message I developed a communication framework called Show up, Share, Connect. A simple three step anyone can follow with discipline and practice….
#0488 Accepting Failure
You will suck at it. No-one is born a master at anything. Hell, humans are the most useless of all creatures at birth. We crawl before we walk, mumble before we speak and often crash…
#0487 Feedback
Most struggle with it. Receiving feedback is challenging. How do you not take it personally? Detachment. As a business, detaching yourself from the emotion of the words and focusing on the outcome in service of…
#0486 Just In Time Learning
I have stopped reading books. Let me clarify, I have stopped reading books that I am unlikely to do anything with. You know, interesting but not very useful at the time. Now, I seek out…
#0485 The Last Mile
Runners speed up when the finish line is in sight. The same energy boost occurs when you are close to completing a goal. The last push even when you may be exhausted. Psychological? Maybe. Effective?…
#0484 Not So Bad
There is always a reason to not take action and that in itself is the action. Marcus Aurelius said “The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” Fear is the biggest…
#0483 Time to Recover
I was in my happy place on the weekend, the garage. Tools were out and I was working on a project I had been planning for a couple of years and finally got around to…
#0482 Do As You Say
All he had to do was get it back to me and the sale was his. I recently engaged with a service provider who pitched me on a monthly service for my business. The pitch…
#0481 Frustrating at First
You must let them do it, even if it is terrible in the beginning. There are three distinct phases I have gone though as I have taught my kids how to drive. The first two…
#0480 Running the Gauntlet
Your idea is worthless. It is not a million dollar idea, in fact you will not make a decent living from it. At least not until you learn how to execute, and execution is not…
#0479 Choose
You will not get more time, make better choices.
#0478 Respecting Time
If you are doing this to others you are are doing it to yourself too. One of my pet hates is people not respecting time. Not bothered by a few minutes or the occasional bump,…
#0477 Problem Solving
During my daughter’s parent teacher meeting her Math teacher advised to review and consolidate information as the body of knowledge grows, it will help embed it into your brain for recall in exams. Took me…
#0476 Giving Up
2mm was all it took. On the weekend I went to mow our lawns as I often do and for some reason the mower would not start. Only the week before I had replaced the…
#0475 Passion
Passion was on full display. For my birthday my wife surprised me with a walking foodie tour. This was not a restaurant crawl along the high street but a producers tour through an industrial area….
#0474 Oxygen
In 2002 my wife and I spent eight weeks travelling South America. A planned highlight of the trip was a four day trek walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, an ancient ruin set high…