Posts Tagged ‘inspiration’
What’s Your Sentence?
Tomorrow you might consider making a list of resolutions. You might even set goals for the coming year. Before you do watch this short video from Daniel Pink and then go craft a sentence that will be your guidepost for everything you plan to do. The best bit is that you get to choose. If…
Read MoreThe Glory Or Generosity?
The performer exited stage left, applause ringing in his ears. Relief and joy flooded through him as he grabbed a sandwich outside the greenroom. The stagehand waiting in the wings congratulated him on giving a great performance. He didn’t stop or turn to face her as he stuffed the sandwich into his mouth whole. “Boy,…
Read MoreWhat Versus Why
My middle son left school this year and here’s the question everyone asks him. “What do you want to do?” I bet it’s a question you’ve been asked too at one time or another. My seventeen year old tells people he wants to study either architecture or design, and then that he’s off to Billund…
Read MoreBe That
If you say you’re the biggest, fastest, strongest, cheapest, —————est, then be the biggest, fastest, strongest, cheapest, —————est . If you say you’re the best then be that. And the flipside? If you say it, then you set the intention of being it. Which means you have an obligation to go make it happen. Image…
Read MoreAnyone Could Have Done It
Anyone could have written that book. Had this idea. Made that project work. Pulled this off. The thing is they didn’t. That most people don’t. And you’re not just anyone. Image by Alexander Kesselaar.
Read MoreCrafting Your Intention
I met a really passionate financial planner recently who was a bit stuck about how to craft a 30 second pitch to deliver to the people he met at networking events. The problem was that while he was agonising over finding the right words he lost the ability to communicate his intention. If you have…
Read MoreTomorrow
Tomorrow there will be another social network to choose from. Tomorrow your competitors will be selling a similar app. Tomorrow there will be ten more books to buy at the bookstore. Tomorrow you’ll get to inbox zero. Tomorrow interest rates might come down. Tomorrow you’ll know for sure. Tomorrow there will be another podcast to…
Read MoreThe Easy Way Out
A $6000 full page advert in a magazine with a readership of 200,000 people might feel like a bargain. All those eyeballs connected to all those credit cards just waiting to discover you. Now all the advert must do is convince people to pick up the phone. Buying ads feels safe, but handing over advertising…
Read MoreA Better Way To Say It
There’s a little funeral chapel a few kilometres from where I live. A place that’s a far cry from the draughty stone churches I remember from my childhood in Dublin. A beautiful warm room with skylights that allow the sunshine in. It’s surrounded by bush and a cemetery where kangaroos roam and eat the flowers…
Read MoreYou Scratch My Back
The suited up guy approached me at the end of the meeting saying he wanted to find ways to promote my business. He was that impressed! “There is a quid pro quo though.” he said. The old you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours routine. A transaction. This for that. The most valuable relationships…
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