Sometimes, quitting is the only option
I keep an eye on a number of YouTube channels which claim to show the viewer how easy it is to make big money in a short period of time by day trading. Day trad...
Category: Self Improvement
The COVID-19 Lockdown-a Good Time For Stillness and Some Focused Thinking?
The Covid-19 pandemic is causing gut wrenching fear for a large number of business owners-the type of fear that most of them will never have encountered before,...
Do the right thing
Do the right thing. Always. Even when nobody is looking. It’s a great habit to develop. Whether it is washing your hands and following the other direction...
Your Best, Distraction Free, Lucid Thinking-Do You Have a Place?
There’s a velux window directly over the head of my bed. Listening to large globules of rain hitting that window in the small hours of the morning, at 3.3...
Chop Wood, Carry Water-Why You Need to Adopt This Buddhist Philosophy in 2020
It is a Zen Buddhist saying that if you want to reach enlightenment you should “chop wood, carry water”. And if you want to retain enlightenment you need to, yo...
Start With Why-Is Simon Sinek Mistaken?
Reading “Start With Why” by Simon Sinek at the moment and am struggling a little bit. I am only half way through and hope I can accept, or reconcile, the hypoth...
One of my most important tools: my journal
The journal you see on this page is one of the most important tools I own. When I refer to it as a tool I mean it is instrumental in maintaining sound mental he...
My Aim for 2020: Stillness
2020 will be the year of stillness and focus for me. That’s the plan, anyway. I want to follow the Zen saying of “chop wood, carry water”-that is, do the work t...
Winning Arguments-the Principles and Tools of Rhetoric
I am reading a book ( Winning Arguments: From Aristotle to Obama – Everything You Need to Know About the Art of Persuasion) at the moment about winning ar...
How to Speak Like a Leader
How to convince and persuade by the use of words is something that fascinates me. Regardless of whether the words are written or spoken the power to move other ...