Well I’m not going to go all ‘American’ and start shouting out about how we should love ourselves with a daily ritual of looking in the mirror saying ‘I am amazing, I am a valuable human and I have a shining soul’ … definitely not! But I believe that most of the time we are all our own biggest critics and are really too harsh on ourselves and if we could break some of the negative cycles we would be much happier people. Continue reading
Have you ever been intellectually outwitted by someone? Have you found yourself in an argument with someone and realised that they have linguistically tied you in knots? I absolutely love the use of language, but I know I have found myself in this position with people either intellectually more intelligent than me, more linguistically adept or simply with a better argument than mine. Continue reading
Ever been feeling a bit low and then seen something which fills you with joy and you can’t help but smile or laugh? Ok, sometimes these are huge things like seeing your winning lottery numbers (we wish!?) or having that surprise marriage proposal from Howard Donald of Take That (yes, I wish!) but more often than not, the things that can brighten up a dull day are such simple little things. Here are a few of my favourites … Continue reading
Tomorrow at midnight we will all be saying goodbye to 2011 and welcoming in 2012. People across the land will be making promises and resolutions in a bid to become better people over the next 365 days. Continue reading
They say you get older and wiser, it’s true that most of us have moments in our life that we can look back on and think, ‘if only I knew then, what I know now’.
It got me thinking, if you could speak to yourself as a child, just before you were about to enter your teens, what would you say?
If I could send myself a letter back in time, I think it would go something like this … Continue reading
Well yes, we’ve all heard that saying used over and over again, along with …
‘Make the most of the time you have’
‘Appreciate what you have’
‘Life goes by in the blink of the eye’
… and many many other quotes that are used time and time again as a meagre effort to make each of us stop existing and start living. Continue reading
When making any decision in your life, do you follow your heart, your head or your gut? It’s an interesting concept which I have spent a lot of time observing within myself over the past year or so.
When working with business owners, they sometimes say to me that they cannot understand why they are not selling more than they are. They have good marketing material, the attend regular networking events, they have regular meetings with people, they even use social media; but they are not converting sales.
One of the 4Networking Directors, Tim Johnson, caused a little bit of an outcry not that long ago when he announced to members that one man bands do not work. Now I can understand why his members were initially upset, after all most networking groups are built upon one man bands. Yet what Tim actually meant was that most one man bands will always, at best, struggle. However, if business owners are open minded and look at collaborating, then their potential for success and longevity massively increases.
Do you run around here there and everywhere, mobile phone in one hand, documents in the other? Do you hear yourself telling everyone you are ‘too busy’ to do something or that you ‘haven’t got enough hours in the day’? Are you working from morning til night, and even on weekends? Continue reading