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Try this: don’t think of a blue elephant. What did you see in your mind’s eye? An elephant perhaps? Maybe a blue one? Most people do and the reason is simple: So if you think “I don’t want to feel so tired”, your mind thinks tired. If you think “I want fewer hassle clients”, your …

LinkedIn just signposted an article on the news about coming back to work after your summer vacation and the feelings around that. It’s an interesting article and intended to be helpful, but I found one phrase that shocked me.  It was this: “If you did take a holiday, the return to work can feel like …

I read a lovely post this morning (read it here https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-matlock-661506239_veterans-vfw-education-activity-7235291383375290368-xkRw?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop). The gist is that a US school teacher had 27 veterans bring in the desks for young children just starting school.  Her point was that the children only had the freedom to occupy those desks due to the service and sacrifice of people like …

𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐮𝐜k 𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝, 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡? Play is how we begin our lives as children – we spend untold hours entertaining ourselves in stuff (or at least, I and my generation did). We explored the world, tried things just to see what happened. We used out imaginations to create worlds and games and …

We are born having very simple needs – comfort, food, to be clean and safe and warm. Over time, we are “educated” into fast and thinking-is-king and that results are the only thing that matters. We lose that connectedness, slow and awareness of our bodies and feelings. We become wedded to the idea that happiness …

A recent post received a lot of responses.  It was a thought experiment where a lower rate of return could be chosen to prioritise looking after people or a higher return that cost 1000 people their jobs.  I speculated that the most common decision was the higher return regardless of the adverse impact to a …

Here’s a little thought experiment. Say you are a board member in the boardroom. There’s two proposals being put on the table. One proposal is going to make a return of 7% and it involves sacking 1000 people somewhere, closing down a location perhaps.   Another proposal on the table which is going to make a …

I have a mission.  It’s huge.  I have not spoken openly about this because I have been wanting to get the i’s dotted and the t’s crossed and all the details sorted out.  Which of course is code for procrastinate.  So I want to start writing about my mission just as it is now. It’s …

Is your work zapping your passion these days?  Do you feel experienced, but bored? I know I can do this, but do I want to? This is the key question.  So many of us do things because that’s the road we are on.  If you are going to change things, you need to decide to …