Keeping irritations in perspective
It was about 4pm and the bus was full of youngsters coming home from school. Some bright spark obviously thought it was fun to keep ringing the bell for getting ...
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Have you found your niche?
British actor Richard Briers - who is probably most famous for playing Tom Good in the Good Life 70s sitcom - was talking on the radio yeterday about his career ...
Are you limiting your own sphere of influence?
Imagine a swimming pool in front of you. You are first to arrive. You lower yourself into the pool. At first the glassy water is disrupted by some ripples. As ...
Finding the “right time” to start to make changes
I am writing this at the start of the second week in 2010. Over the past week the press, blogs and online chats have been full of resolutions and advice ...
Does what you are doing need to be finished to be valuable?
In the most recent Metasaga ( more info at the foot of this post) we led a group round the National Gallery of Scotland to look for metaphors in the paintings. Lesley ...
Living up to your own reputation
I was reading the Time Out Guide book I had for my trip to Stockholm at the weekend on the flight home as I had to fill a couple of ...
Could something I did really change someone’s life?
I was surprised and really touched to read this post last week. Kaye's comments made me smile. My instinct was to go down the "it was nothing" route but taking ...
Give yourself credit for what you have learned
Over several years I have been involved in university programmes that build workplace learning into the coursework where the students are asked to apply their academic learning to real life ...
How do you keep track of what you have achieved?
A few weeks ago I started using my Super Seven plan. It's simple. In a small notebook, on the right hand page, I write down 7 things to do each day . By ...
