Maximize Your Strengths
As a perfectionist I have an obsessive problem with anything that is less than perfect. So no surprise then that growing up I was never organised because I could never develop the perfect organisational system – it was just never ‘quite right’.
Roll forward to 2009, and I have been forced into organisational ability, with the [...]
Cast Your Bread On The Social Media Waters
“Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.” That’s from the Bible, believe it or not. A seemingly contradictory statement, I have indeed found on many occasions that when I have put something ‘out there’, it has unexpectedly come back to me. Today I want to look at social [...]
5 Steps For Making Quality Decisions
Last week, Olivier Blanchard, inspired by a post from Amber Nasuland, posted a great piece on ‘What Won’t You Compromise On‘. Having written about the same thing myself last week with practically the same title, it was very pertinent as the ideas were fresh in my head and I was still molding my thoughts into [...]
For Those Who Asked… And For My Wife
Hi friends – a little something different today – it’s my wife’s birthday, and many of you have been asking for me to post some of my poetry that I’ve written. Tomorrow I’ll resume on the theme of compromsing, but today, let me share with you a very precious poem for Faye and I.
I wrote [...]
Again, One Is Too Small A Number
Happy birthday to us. We celebrate our first birthday today. Right in the middle of recession hype, on August 12th 2008, I put paper to pen and Aaron+Gould was born.
One year later I realise again than one is too small a number to acheive significance.
One is too small a number because one year isn’t enough [...]
Much Ado About Something
Yesterday, Facebook bought FriendFeed. To the Digitalls, this is a thing of hot debate and plentiful discussion. But to the Digicools and Digitools, they will have read to this point and still understand nothing I’ve said because they have no idea what FriendFeed is, nor know why it even matters that Facebook has acquired them. But [...]
A Time For Peace, A Time For War
In running Aaron+Gould, and in a leadership role at my church, I have a fair few battles to deal with on a weekly basis – all around people. People are the most wonderful thing in life, yet they are also the most complex. Whether it’s work, family, marriage or friends, there are always battles in [...]
One Is Too Small A Number To Achieve Significance
I’ve just got home from the Exeter Tweetup. An incredible evening. An unforgettable experience.
What a triumph to have so many of Exeter’s Twitter users get together. We must’ve made up a third or so of the audience at TBX1’s networking event. On the left is a photo of 14 of us at the after party, [...]
It's All About People
I’ve had two interesting interactions with people I’ve met for the first time over the last three days. On Sunday I was preaching at our church in Barnstaple, Devon, and afterwards I was talking to a very sweet lady who came for the first time called Wendy. A woman who had obviously been through a [...]
