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Intelligence & Wisdom
As the saying goes, “Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit, and wisdom is not putting them in fruit salad.” Humans are the smartest animal on the planet. Our standout evolutionary achievement is our big brain. But it is only in the last 500 or so years that...
Maximise Potential
Entrepreneur, author, and mother of four, Bianca Best recently gave me a copy of her latest book, Big Impact Without Burnout: 8 Energizing Strategies to Stop Struggling and Start Soaring. Through her book she wants to help woman to achieve their full potential without...
20 Years of NLP
This month marks 20 years since I did my very first NLP training. Having spent 18 years before then working as an accountant in the corporate world I was ready for a change. At the start of 2005, as I contemplated that change, coaching was one of the career choices...
Fighting Fire with Fire
‘Fighting fire with fire’ is a commonly used idiom, meaning to use like force against like force. It most likely comes from the practice of creating a fire break to manage a wildfire, by burning fuel in its path, thereby depriving the wildfire of energy. Creating a...
Government
Recently I was asked to review a book a friend of mine had written, which is titled 5,000 years of Monarchy. The book highlights many fascinating facts from across the globe and throughout recorded history. Such as Phillip II of Spain being King of England, after...
Your Story
Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1960 film Spartacus starring Kirk Douglas as Spartacus and Laurence Olivier as Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus, tells the epic tale of the gladiators who escaped from a school near Capua in 73 BCE, terrifying the Roman people with their...
Pain
Pain is a mechanism that our nervous system uses to provide us with information. That information is usually about damage being caused to the body. The pain is there to tell us to take actions which allow our bodies to heal, which in turn causes the pain to stop. If...
The Spirit of NLP
If someone asks, what NLP is I can trot out the usual collection of explanations depending on who is asking, why they seem to be asking and how much time we have. It’s an instruction manual for the mind; it’s about how to think not what to think; NLP stands for Neuro...
Trade Carefully
America’s new bold tariff play has, if nothing else, cast a shadow of uncertainty over the world economy. Using tariffs to protect domestic industries is a valid tool in the economic toolbox. By doing so you make imported goods more expensive, thereby offering a...
Attention Please!
The Sun’s 1986 headline, “Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster”, was one of the most attention-grabbing ever produced by any newspaper. Was it true? Who knows? Who cares? Freddie Starr got plenty of publicity from it. In this Information Age everyone is after your attention....