I’ve read that the great thinker and management guru Peter Drucker said “there are two types of people: one kind of people are into results, the other kind are into reasons”. Reasons why they cannot produce results (this is where…
Five Principles For Success
Image: Leonardo’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ from Wikipedia.org1. Know your outcome Know what you want, why you want it, and make sure the outcome is ‘ecological’ – good for you and for the people you care about (and for your community and…
Goal Setting with Seth Godin – unstated away-froms
Seth’s done an interesting short post about unstated ‘away-from’ goals – here’s an extract: Think about how often your goal at a conference or a meeting or in a project is, “don’t screw up!” or “don’t make a fool of…
Going “one louder”: what if you scale your life up to 11?
In the spoof rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (high up on most people’s lists of the funniest films ever made), there’s a famous scene where guitarist Nigel Tufnel shows off his customised Marshall amp, on which all the dials go…
Buddhist saying refutes “cosmic ordering”
"Act as if the future of the Universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions could make any difference" — a Buddhist Saying (sometimes attributed to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) Thanks to @AboodiShabi for alerting…
The Law of Attraction, Belief Systems and Waking Trances
This is prompted by Richard Jones’ article on ‘LoA, online zombies and unwinnable arguments‘. I’m hoping that the ideas set out below might throw a bit of light on why both sides in this debate find the argument unwinnable. Just…
Tips for people who “can’t visualise”
Here’s a few tips for anyone who – after putting a decent amount of effort into visualisation over a period of several days – still finds that they have difficulty visualising. Most people will be finding it easier by that…
Research just in: “Diet sized snack turns off willpower”
And here’s a timely bit of research from this week’s New Scientist suggesting one reason why diets don’t work:Diet sized snack turns off willpower
Inspiring quote: Alan Sugar (!) on doing what you love
I never thought I’d be quoting the famously grumpy Sir Alan on an emotional intelligence blog, but here he is:
"You’ve got to be happy, it’s not just about making money and all that
stuff. There should be no drudgery in work. You have to enjoy what
you’re doing, and if you don’t, you’d better get out and do something
else because you’re not going to be a success."
– Sir Alan Sugar, interviewed by Liz Hoggard for the London Evening Standard, 26 March 2008
Note for non-UK readers: Sir Alan Sugar fills the Donald Trump role in the UK version of The Apprentice, and it’s riveting viewing!
Goal-setting interview
Just to let you know that I’ve been interviewed about goal-setting for Gavin Ingham’s sales blog – which has already created a nice little surge in my readership figures.
I’ve also had a less satisfactory interview experience – a journo from Crain’s Manchester Business phoned me about business coaching, we had a nice chat, I directed him to a satisfied client to interview, and the next thing I hear about it is when the client emails me with a link to the article saying it’s rather strange as I’m not named in it. So you’ll just have to trust me when I tell you that the coach who helped award-winning Manchester design company True North to greater success, and who its MD Martin Carr is praising to the skies, is actually me!