Do You Ask the Advice of Others?
We don’t like asking the advice of others especially when it is exposing a weakness in ourselves. However, keeping quiet and not asking is a recipe for disaster. Sure, to err is human and I believe we learn more from our mistakes than we do from our successes however it is better to make an […]
Don’t Dismiss Until You’ve Tried It
One of my pet hates is when someone announces that they definitely don’t like something (e.g. Indian or Chinese Food). “Have you tried it then” I will enquire to which the answer is invariably “no”. So how on earth do they know they don’t like it. Some of our likes and dislikes are inherited; our […]
Stay Open to New Ideas
So you’ve reached your pinnacle. You are top of the heap. You are master of all you survey…..or are you? Are you open to new ideas or satisfied you know it all? One of the dangers we can all face is complacency. With success, there is a real possibility of you thinking that you have […]
Brain awareness and avoiding sabre-toothed tigers
How to develop your awareness Day in and day out our brains are having to think and take in millions of bits of information but just how much of this are we fully, properly aware of? It is important to be keenly aware even in this age when we are not (normally) being chased by […]
How Observant Are You?
I don’t know about you but I am terrible at remembering names. I can often be seen within a group of people hoping someone will say another’s name. The thing that offsets this is that I have a really good memory for remembering faces. I have written before about how it’s important to be quiet […]
The Value of Empathy
How often do we consider the How of what we are doing at work and home? In this context, I am referring to how we are feeling and how that is transmitting into the external movements and actions we undertake. For those of you who believe in the Law of attraction there is a concept […]
Giving willingly makes business sense
Hands up those of you who have to attend networking events in the normal course of your business? I have to and do attend hundreds over the year. Even if you don’t attend specific networking functions there are always times in your career where networking has a role. Having done so for quite some time […]
Giving Back…. is adopting a positive attitude
What does giving back mean to you? For me it’s being thankful and showing that thanks for everything life has afforded to me in my second chance. For everything I do that has a benefit for myself I try to balance that off by doing something for someone else that has no self-benefit at all. […]
Giving Quality – a Series on Giving
When is good enough NOT giving quality? I am getting pretty sick of the ‘near enough is good enough’ attitude that seems to be pervading everything from white goods, core products, the service industry, public services all the way up to the highest echelons of power. Guess what? Good enough is NOT giving quality. Nearly […]
Focus on a Positive Approach
I’ve mentioned the problem with negativity in a previous article so thought I’d balance off with why I am convinced positive thinking attracts positive results and is demonstrated in a positive approach to life. Take a positive approach for positive outcomes I, like many others, keep finding that taking the positive approach to problems, challenges […]