Another post from my archieves, this time from 2008, when I sent monthly rather than weekly messages: As I sat and wondered what to write in this month’s message I received a thank you message from a friend, who for the purposes of this email I’ll call Bob. I had chatted with Bob last week … Read more
“The best way to find out where you are from is find out where you are going and work backwards.” (The 4th Doctor, played by Tom Baker from the Doctor Who TV story “City of Death”) I happened to watch an episode of a “classic” sci-fi TV show recently. Although I didn’t recall seeing this … Read more
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” (Ken Blanchard) Sometimes my work involves me delivering feedback. Sometimes people are just interested in the facts, the objective experience. On other occasions they are more interested in the subjective experience – how those facts could be interpreted. For instance, lets take an everyday experience of visiting a shop. … Read more
This was originally posted on www.YourChangingDirection.com in July 2010 “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.” (Robert Louis Stevenson) Today’s piece is written in response to the question: “Can Writing keep us well? The relationship between writing, health and well-being.” A question that was posed here with the … Read more
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.” (Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher) I was chatting to another participant at an event recently and the conversation turned to the work of the next speaker. My comment was that, like many books, … Read more
“Oft Expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits,” (All’s well that ends well Act II scene i, William Shakespeare) Our expectations can affect how we experience a situation and our interpretation of it’s outcome. This sprang to mind last week when … Read more
This was originally posted on www.YourChangingDirection.com in summer 2010 “Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.” (Earl Nightingale) For the last few … Read more
This was originally posted in 2010 on www.YourChangingDirection.com “Live out of your imagination, not your history.” (Steven Covey) You may have noticed that there is a small football (or soccer depending upon where you are) competition happening in South Africa. Certainly where I am the media is full of football related contents. Which is how … Read more