I’ve found my spirit animal, the Costa Rican two-toed sloth. My North Star to begin 2024 is “Knowledge Speaks, Wisdom Listens”, and I started the…
Open Leadership
Time for a winter pause
Learn to pause, or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
Listen with your heart
Proactively reach out to people and they will likely be happy to hear from you. If they are, and if they want to talk, listen…
Reflection is mindful attention to lessons learned
Reflection is not just a “looking back” — it is giving mindful attention to lessons learned from experience and applying them to future growth and…
Reflections and looking forwards
My own reflections to, I hope, inspire you to consciously take time to first reflect on your 2023, then to turn your thoughts and gaze…
What do you need to go from Great to Elite?
Consider what in your life, work, and business you have already moved from good to great. Now, what will you need to focus on, and…
Are you ready to benefit from structured support?
I love to be a sounding board, coach, mentor, advisor. I love to support others in these different and sometimes overlapping ways.
How collective silence can change time
Thoughts today on how collective silence can change time. I chose to go to the Silent Book Club both out of curiosity and a sense…
What types of love do you share?
Other languages have many more ways of expressing how they feel in this positive vein, one of which being Greek, which has seven types of…
Cyndi Lauper and Meraki
Meraki: to do something with soul, creativity, or love; when you leave a piece of yourself in the work.”
Be the Pebble in someone’s Pond
Be the Pebble in someone’s Pond. I do limit the number of email newsletters I remain subscribed to, particularly as I am now adding more…
High leverage relaxation
What high leverage relaxation do you choose that takes little time? Oh, and for British friends, yes, stopping for a cup of tea does count…
Turn off your notifications
The number one tip I give to busy people who want more time to focus is to turn off their notifications.
Designing a Pareto Life
The Pareto Principle of 80% of our results coming from 20% of our inputs applied to how we could use this in our personal lives…
Mix, blend and enjoy
I moved to Cayman and immediately felt at home on a small island and found a blend of over one hundred nationalities.
We can all be refugees
In memory of Benjamin Zephaniah, the brilliant “We Refugees” poet, who passed away this week. His passion for equality unites us all.
Gratitude for the gift of purpose
Awareness of my purpose has indeed been a great agent for me to change myself and to support others to change.
Listening, a tip from a Coaching Master
Ed Percival, known by those in the coaching community as, simply, “Yoda”, was the greatest of the many mentors I have had in my life.
Got and Want lists
Last week I was at an edition of “The Lab” led by Neil Baker. One of the experiments was to write down our thoughts for…
SCARF and understanding the needs of others
Reflecting on Perpetua Neo’s “This is What Matters,” the SCARF model unveils psychological safety needs, offering a powerful leadership tool.
Take a simple idea and take it seriously
Yes, three posts in a week inspired by Charlie Munger, who said: “Take a simple idea and take it seriously”
If in doubt, make it shorter
Power lies in brevity. If in doubt, make it shorter. A concise message can be remarkably potent and impactful.
Inspiration is building
I follow energy often in terms of what I do, and decisions I make, and now I am feeling inspiration building up in me to…
Joy and wonder through untranslatable words
I simply love untranslatable words, by which I mean both words that have meanings that cannot readily be simplified in definition, and also words from…
Be unfettered by conventional thinking
I do hope to be remembered as being “unfettered by conventional thinking”, what a wonderful way to be thought of!
Get rich slowly
The desire to get rich fast is pretty dangerous. Get rich slowly, instead.
Introversion and making myself go to events
I’m pretty introverted, so going to busy events (including the trip out, busy stations, trains, tubes etc) is something I have to push myself to…
Writing helps you to understand what you think
If we see the benefit in writing, then we encourage those who do want to understand what they think to be careful in their use…
Who would you choose to break you out of prison?
If unsure who to work with, pick the person that has the best chances of breaking you out of a 3rd world prison.
What if universities stopped giving exams?
What if universities stopped giving exams? “Loony”, huh? How will we know how hard students have worked?
It’s not who we are
Be clear on who you are, behave that way, call yourself or anyone on your team out when you go outside of that culture, values,…
I couldn’t not do it
You must also be driven to do it to a level where, in hindsight, you “couldn’t not do it.”
Time is Wealth
Money is not wealth, “stuff” is not wealth, and having the choice as to how we spend our time is true wealth.
Giving and receiving
Giving and receiving. No, this is not about “the season”, it is way too early (in my mind) to think about that, maybe from December 1st…
When people believe in you
My thanks also go out to Suki and all the others who saw my potential and believed in me, holding that belief until I was…
Being Still
Today is a “less so” day, perhaps as I was out on my bike for 4.5 hours this morning with my riding buddy the “Flying…