As I have surveyed the personal excellence blogosphere there are some standouts that have been drawn to my attention – written by people who are helping others to become all that they have been created to become. I love that, and that is why I approached Celestine Chua for the following interview – which she [...]
‘Don’t count the days, make the days count.’ Anon. I was browsing through a local gift shop when I stumbled across this saying. A simple statement yet powerful. So I’m going to take you on a countdown from 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and then blast off to a life of extraordinary experiences. Obviously there are many ways that [...]
‘When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.’ Viktor Frankl Situations come. Situations go. But no matter what situation we find ourselves in, we are given the wonderful opportunity to not always change the situation or even how others respond to that situation, but rather to [...]
I recently replanted my organic vegetable garden when we moved house. I had let it go to rack and ruin some months preceding the move. For as we knew that we were about to move, there didn’t seem to be any point in planting during those last days. The result of that inaction was a [...]
The one thing I like predominantly about hanging around winners is that they force me to continue to seek ways to improve. I remember reading about Sam Walton – the founder of the mighty WalMart chain. He would make it his habit to regularly visit his competition, and if he ever found one idea that [...]
Last weekend I hung out with two dead guys. In fact as I consider a lot of my ‘solitude’ life – I tend to spend a large amount of my time within the company of the deceased. Now you may say, ‘How can you do that? How can you have a conversation with the dead?’ [...]
In order for you to take possession there needs to be something within your life that becomes your obsession. Half-hearted people will achieve half-baked results. Full-hearted individuals will reap full-blooded achievements. No-one has ever achieved anything of lasting significance by dipping their little toe into the water. Those who have ever done anything that has [...]
Vulnerability is an amazing place to be. Is it a nice place? Not at all. But it is a choice place. It is a place where you can choose to hide under a rock, or a place where you can stand on the mountain top and declare, ‘I may be vulnerable. I may be on [...]
If a thing is very common and easy to get, we say it is ‘a dime a dozen.’ And that is exactly what talent is. Let me explain. In a recent seminar I wrote at the bottom of my white board, in small writing, ‘talent’. And next to it I wrote the word ‘low’. I [...]
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