It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
Category: Growth
It’s all Greek to me
c/o an unnamed genius… I think having family (albeit distant relations) in Greece helps me understand the situation from a humanitarian perspective, but I also know there are going to be some severe implications for…
If you want to be successful…
…get yourself a mentor. We’re not just talking about someone who can provide neutral third party advice and act as a sounding board for your ideas. Although this can be a critical part of the…
Jefferson’s 10 rules for a good life.
1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you…
24 Life Lessons
In Paul Cronin’s documented interviews with Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, Herzog offers some advice, (mainly to students of the art of film-making) but his advice applies to all of us: Always take the initiative.…
7 practical tips of persistence
Tip #1: Start small One thing at a time, ‘Φασούλι φασούλι γεμίζει το σάκούλι’. Affect change where you can, immediately, progressively, and iteratively – this stuff is easy if all you need to worry about is making a change to…
My story of persistence: Part #6
I know this story has been dragging on for some time so I’m going to try and wrap it up as quickly as I can, maybe even in this post…let’s see how we go…thanks for…
My story of persistence: Part #5
As you do when looking for work, especially when you know its time to move on, you look for anything and everything that looks remotely interesting. You don’t really put all your eggs in one…
My story of persistence: Part #4
There is something very reassuring about mail. I reckon it’s a key indicator of a modern, functioning civilisation (along with safe and efficient garbage disposal but that’s a story for another day). Almost without exception…
My story of persistence: Part #3
There are some professional service vocations that require practitioners to maintain a certain level of competence by obtaining what’s called continuing professional development points. The goal is 10 points in a 12 month period. You…
My story of persistence: Part #2
So the job situation was by no means dire. I had a good boss who understood me and how I worked. The pay was satisfactory for my level of qualifications at the time and given…
My story of persistence: Part #1
About three years ago, I started on a journey that would take me to a destination that I had decided I needed to reach. I’m making some head way and I want to share my story with you.…
Visual refresh
It’s been over a year now since I embarked on this blogging journey and at the time I was really only learning about the power we all have to communicate with written word via the…
It’s all about Valume
Yesterday, I had the privilege of hearing Adrian Fittolani introduce me to the concept of valume. Now there is no way I will be able to convey the message with anywhere near as much heart…
Disruptive Thinking
#EpicCollaboration
Firstly I want to thank everyone involved at #EpicCollaboration. I had the pleasure of attending a strategy session the other night with a group of honest, intelligent, compassionate, creative and committed collaborators. I appreciate you…
With intention
Know real Now matters Open honest Without hesitation Live deliberately Extend boundaries Do what matters Grow and contribute Eclecticism
I’ve been launching…
Firstly there’s Knowledge Work: honest, friendly and highly beneficial mentoring for young professionals. Then there’s the launch of something that is truly beyond words. Unequivocally remarkable. Those of you who know me know what I’m talking about…for those…
Keep on searching
To find what we’re looking for sometimes we need to go places that no one has before. We are unique. No one has been or will be you, ever! And so to rely on others…
Taking stock
I’ve been writing this blog for almost a year now since I decided to make the switch. Every now and then I look back at some of the things I’ve written…sometimes I can’t even remember ever writing…
Purpose
When you know what you want, when you know where you are going, you begin to appreciate a purpose. If you’re in doubt about what you want, if you’re questioning the direction you’re heading, you will…
The fox and the grapes
One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. “Just the thing…
Options
Our brains are a muscle that can create an infinite number of connections between two points. These connections give us options. The more connections we create the more options we will have. The computing power…
Letters of Note
The internet is a sharing tool. The inspiration and creativity found is that of fellow human beings. Occasionally you come across a truly inspirational collection of information that warrants our attention. Here is one site…
Learning from strangers
All our lives we are taught by strangers. We are told to listen, respect and learn from their teachings. It’s been a long since teaches actually taught us something worth learning though and that’s the…
Greatness
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Michelangelo
Backing up
When backing up large amounts of data and waiting an extraordinary amount of time for these 1s and 0s to get from here to there, it reaches a point of no return when you aren’t…
Public Domain Dedication
“Public Domain Dedication” sounds like the type of thing you do when you’re about to ask your life-long partner to marry you in front of tens of thousands of people at a New York Yankees…
Shady
There are so many shady people out there it’s easy to forget that honest and genuine people exist. The shadiness isn’t always obvious. It’s not as if these people are necessarily rude or obnoxious or…
Creatively connected
We live in a connected community. Linguistic and geographical boundaries exist no longer. Lets us creatively.collaborate; creatively.communicate; creatively.connect with creatively.committed and creatively.compassionate individuals. A better world will evolve as we move beyond solving problems and begin to…
Making time
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton I always try putting in place a few measures to ensure I get exposure to challenging and confronting…
The old becomes new again
Everything is cyclical…everything. We often loose sight of the bigger picture so its worth recognising and acknowledging the circular nature of our existence. Although cliched to the hill, ‘what comes around goes around’ and ‘what goes up…
The journey continues
As we all see the end of another year that our Gregorian calendars number 2013, what better time to reflect and celebrate the year that was. I sincerely hope that those reading this have had…
‘Tis the season to be wary…
…of everything. The food will make you fat. The spending will make you poor. The small talk will be painful. The crowds will be in your way. The heat will make sweat. The cold will…
Community
What does community mean? How do we define who is in our community and who isn’t? Geographical parameters work…well sort of…but what about online communities? Do online communities exist by virtue of a username and…
Whether
Not the heat or the cold or anything meteorological but the choice we make in our minds about whether to do or think in a particular way. Whether you think you can, or you think…
Artistic expression
Some of us write. We all probably photograph. Drawing was something we did as kids [at least for most of us]. By writing, photographing and drawing we communicate to those who care to notice. Some…
Entertainment
It’s a wonderful thing: To entertain. To be entertained. To laugh. To make others laugh. It’s a skill that some people possess naturally. Others work hard at it and pull it off. Entertainment can take so…
Health
We are nothing without our health. Somewhere, somehow we need to be sure to keep a healthy body and healthy mind to save ourselves from the greatest calamity that is: being unhealthy.
One liners
A few words can be so powerful. In fact fewer words are often most powerful and influential. It’s not the quantity that counts but the quality. Same applies to everything. Everything. The creation of a…
Waiting rooms
They’re never friendly and happy places waiting rooms. No one visits a waiting room for any purpose; other than to wait of course. I think what’s most frustrating though is usually the overwhelming feeling of…
Bruce Lee
How is this for a varied career: martial artist, martial arts instructor, actor, film director, screenwriter and founder. Bruce Lee died at the age of 32 but in his short existence he redefined so much.…
On tick
Buying something ‘on tick’ usually refers to a purchase on credit. That is, using money you don’t have right now to buy something right now by borrowing money right now. Effectively what’s happening is that…
Seriously…
Don’t take this life so seriously. Be free. Enjoy. You have only one go at it. Why waste it?
Eggs will hatch
You may have heard the saying: Don’t count your chickens before your eggs hatch The basic premise is self explanatory. We have so many chickens and yet we still insist on counting our eggs. Instead of…
Communications
The written word is powerful. It can also be boring and disengaging. We communicate in many different ways but by far the most ubiquitous is by written word. That isn’t to say it’s always effective…
Visuals
Source: Pop Chart Lab I picture things. All manner of things. I draw pictures to understand. I visual scenarios to recall a detail I need to remember. I take a snapshot of a page as…
Good news
Don’t be confused by my apparent lack of ceremony. I am happy.
Meandering Mondays IX
We all view the world in our own way. We bring a different perspective to all our observations and todays Meandering Monday IX is an example of just that: viewing things from a different angle.…
Special
This is Ansel Adams. Source: georgerose.com He took photos of landscapes like no other person.