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 [...]
Robin’s Thoughts on Maintenance
In our discussion recently on “it’s easier to obtain than maintain“, we looked at how we deal with the everyday ‘boring’ work, considering most of us are type A, driven, motivation fuelled people. One comment really stuck at as having a lot of gold in, from my dear friend Robin Dickinson. (It’s not the first [...]
Three Things We Need To Give
Thinking on from our discussion last week on The Fight Our Youth Face, I wanted to share the three things that I believe we need to give to the young people around us. Working with interns everyday, these have been the basis of what I’ve been doing for 7 years. 1. Exposure It’s vital that [...]
What’s In A Name?
I love this blog. I love the comments that you, the participants, bring. Last week’s post on What I Learned From Chris Brogan contained some exceptional comments that were full of value and utility. One particular thread was very insightful, along the lines of remembering people’s names. As I said, it’s something that Chris did really [...]
The Fight Our Youth Face
The more and more time I spend with young people (having just graduated from that class when I turned 26 last year), the more and more I realise how big a fight there is that they face – and they don’t even know it yet. Since when I got into working with youth in 2003 [...]
What I Learned From Chris Brogan
If you can’t see this video, click here, or watch on YouTube. When we had Chris over for the Like Minds Conference in February, I had the pleasure of watching Chris operate and also spending some time with him too. I have no doubt that many cynical Brits were waiting to see if he’d walk [...]
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, [...]
Tower Block Of Uncommons
If you can’t see the video above, click here. This incredible series, Tower Block of Commons, gave me great insight again into perception. It doesn’t matter what the reality is. If the everyday person has a perception that our government spend all day arguing in a room and having two homes, then it doesn’t matter [...]
Are You A Builder Or A Bulldozer?
It’s easy to tear things down. I learnt as a young boy that there’s little effort and lots of joy to wrecking things. But building something takes time and hard work. It is easy to criticise and get the attention for being vocal. It’s hard to build behind the scenes, or deal with situations offline, rather than publicly point the finger.
Give This Christmas
It’s Christmas. I’ve been celebrating all week with friends, family and new faces. The whole reason why we work so hard is to be able to first of all make a difference, and secondly to enjoy it. So I’m taking the time to do enjoy my labour. Also, every Christmas my friends and I at [...]
