‘The greatest danger for most of you lies not in setting your aim too high and falling short; but in setting your aim too low, and achieving your mark.’ Michelangelo So often in life we underestimate our hidden potential, and belittle our ability to achieve great things. Mediocrity dogs us. Small thinking denies us. Peers [...]
‘Study to show yourself approved…’ * I spend at least one hour a day in study. The busier I get, the greater I find the need to dig deeper through the habit of study. And what do I study? 1. I Study Where My Passion Lies The bulk of my study time is devoted to [...]
Did not Joseph – the savior of ancient Egypt– spend the good years storing up the excess – to the disdain of many of the people I can imagine, so that when the drought hit there was food enough for all? Did not the wise man build his house upon the solid foundations so that [...]
Life is filled with the scheduling of appointments. In fact, every time that you set a goal you have set up an appointment. Why? Because you have established something that you wish to achieve and have had the courage to attach a date to it. But what if the date comes and the date goes, [...]
To write a goal is admirable. Few do it. But that is only the starting point. Once you have written your goal – and I like to write it as if it has already been achieved – and attached a date to it when you wish to see it achieved, it is then that the [...]
I recently came across a new ‘seven-star’ hotel that is being built in Dubai. Now being a lover of the Sheraton Hotel chain for many years, it was a surprise a few years ago when the Versace Hotel was built directly across the road from the Sheraton here on the Gold Coast, and especially when [...]
With all the financial markets around the world tumbling, it is in this economic climate that we require a sense of centrality. This is where purpose and passion need to rise to the surface, or in fact need to be dusted off and revisited afresh so that the winds of change don’t blow us off [...]
Hugh Holger writes of his experiences gained from crossing the Sahara desert five times, in Timothy Freke’s book ‘The Way Of The Desert’. He recounts that ‘You need to know what you are doing. One small fault with the truck and you’re finished. But if you prepare properly and take precautions it is safer than [...]
I am a firm believer in goal setting, and here is an article that proves just why… ‘Perhaps the most revealing exposition on the importance of goals comes from a Harvard study. A synopsis of the study that was conducted at Harvard Business School between 1979 and 1989 is presented below. In 1979 the graduates [...]
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