It turns out National Quitters’ Day was January 17th and represents the day people typically give up on their New Year’s resolutions. I didn’t know it was a thing until I started seeing posts about it, then I had to look it up. I don’t make New Year’s Resolutions. I did make a decision though …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The world’s people are in peril. We no doubt live in a noisy, numb, narcissistic age. The talents and attentions of the majority are not invested in personal mastery and social responsibility but squandered on games, voyeurism, and base sensationalism. We have recklessly abandoned what truly matters – the striving to be great as individuals …
I just posted a poll on LinkedIn asking whether you support AI and it’s full steam ahead for you or whether you have concerns and would rather we paused for a while to get some ducks in order. Maybe regulation, maybe ownership, maybe a vote in how, when and where AI is implemented. But while …
The Wheel of Life is a simple, easy to do view of how satisfied you are right now with your life. It’s fun, quick and intuitive. If your wheel is balanced, it’ll roll well, but if one or more areas is out of kilter, life will feel more difficult than necessary. This simple activity gives …
I recently saw a meme in a business group stating “A salary is the drug they give you to forget your dreams” and I wrote a bit of a rant about it. This meme says to me that if you are on a salary, in a job, you have been drugged by “them” and are …