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Stop Procrastinating – Eat That Frog!

 There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it – Napoleon Hill Passionate people can’t wait to get up in

Posted in On Self Organisation

Living with Passion

Passion is the genesis of genius – Tony Robbins Helmut and my step-son Ben, and Helmut’s brother, Frank, and a number of our friends rode this year in the MONT 24 – 24 hours of single track mountain bike riding

Posted in Creating Prefered Future's

Exercising Your Willpower Muscles

I was watching TV the other day and noticed a TV commercial for giving up smoking.  The purpose of the commercial was to reinforce that willpower is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Motivational psychologist and author, Heidi

Posted in On Success

Celebrate!

Christmas time has always been an immensely happy time for me and my family.  This year it has been a particularly busy time for us.  We had Lauren’s 21st birthday party a week ago, which was just gorgeous, and then

Posted in On Happiness

Creating a Vision

Building shared vision starts from the position that if any one idea about leadership has inspired organisations for thousands of years, “it is the capacity to hold a shared picture of the future we seek to create” (Senge, 1990: 9). 

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Steve Jobs – The Man, The Mission, The Memory

Stay hungry, stay foolish – Steve Jobs As you know, Steve Jobs was the creative genius behind Apple.  He and Steve Wozniak launched Apple in 1976, calling it Apple because an apple was the fruit that inspired Isaac Newton with

Posted in On Success

Fostering Intuition – following your hunches

    Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. Eileen Caddy   Last weekend I looked down at my left hand

Posted in On Running Your Brain

The Imposter Syndrome

  No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.  Terry Josephson   In my work with leaders, and in teaching our Transformational Leadership Program, my clients and program

Posted in On Leadership

My Musings from the Happiness Conference

  The problems of today are because there is too much self-centeredness – His Holiness The Dalia Lama While money and material things can add comfort and a degree of security to our wellbeing, they are not the basis for

Posted in On Happiness

Creating Your Future in Five Easy Steps

The best way to predict the future is to create it – Jim Rohn  Many years ago I was living in a way that was less than ideal – I was solo parenting three very young children, not working and

Posted in On Success