Video: Start With Why
If you can’t see the above video, click here, or watch it directly on YouTube. I caught this video earlier this year and all I can say is that it has changed how I run projects and decide what to do. It’s by Simon Sinek on the subject of “Start With Why: How Great Leaders [...]
Are You Living A Life Of Purpose?
Ok, so perhaps this is deep and delving a bit too much into people’s salads, but the other night I was at a dinner party and when asking about their interests and passions, the person said to me that they weren’t really doing the things they felt were a fulfilment of their life and found [...]
Break It!
This isn’t for everyone, so if you’re not the daring type of person, then go and read something else and save yourself the stress. However, if you are a thinking person who likes to push the envelope that little bit further with each new thing you do, then this will be right up your street. [...]
Build Not Buy
As MasterCard have told us, there are some things money can’t buy: You can buy a house, but you make a home You can buy a car, but you learn to drive You can pay for a good wedding, but that doesn’t make you a good husband You can buy a ball, but it doesn’t [...]
Get In The Arena
Most churches have passive banners from the 1980′s of Jesus on their walls. We have this quote by Roosevelt on a giant 4 x 3 metre banner I designed: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have [...]
Change is the Essence of Growth
A note today about change. Change is the essence of growth. To not change – that is truly destructive. Change means we are fresh, focussing tighter. Something that Julien Smith spoke about on his blog recently too. Of course, the typically participator at this blog is someone who is changing regularly. My question then is how do [...]
If You Had To Start Again
I was having lunch with someone the other day who was asking about becoming an Active Authority – someone who uses social media to actively engage people in a particular subject by demonstrating their expertise and authority in said subject. Think Olivier Blanchard. When Olivier talks about brand management and social media management, people stop [...]
The Myth of the Personal Digital Brand
I wrote on Saturday about The Fight Our Youth Face, discussing the problem that too much choice for our young people has a paralysing effect, and that there isn’t a strong focus on transferable skills. We talked a while ago about ‘building the kingdom’ – looking at how a strong team is made up of [...]
Preparation WITH Action
If you can’t see the above video, click here, or watch it directly on YouTube. I had a phone call a while ago with someone who basically wasn’t doing any action because they were in preparation. Whilst I say myself that if you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail, I believe there is a [...]
Developing A Strong ‘NO’
Last week, Rich Quick posted an excellent comment on this blog, talking saying “NO”. It came in the middle of the discussion of the 5 innovations of the iPad, and that Apple’s strength was by saying no to a lot of things, in order to have a stronger and more defined yes. In actual fact, [...]
