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Do one thing differently or one different thing today
Innovation is simply doing different things and doing things differently.
Will you have a regenerative holiday break?
For Christmas Day, I ask you to consider if you can have a regenerative holiday break rather than simply a sustainable one?
JOMO and end of year reading
Whilst some people suffer FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), I am the opposite, I embrace JOMO (Joy of Missing Out).
Elite Mindset – #OpenLeadership – learn from the Stoics
The more I learn, the further back into history I often go to learn from the ancients, including Buddhism, the Tao, Sufism and the Stoics.
The more I am absent the more I am present
One thought that flowed from me as we spoke was about the art of listening and being present: The more I am absent the more…
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasures you seek
(c) Sketchplanations This is the time of year when many of us take time to relax, and with that, watch movies classic and new. Many of the greatest movies of the last few decades owe much to Joseph Campbell and the hero's journey, as I wrote about in: "The Hero’s...
Thank your teachers
I am grateful for my teachers, for those who have taught of my sons, and for all teachers who seek to see the spark in…
When you are interested everyone is interesting
I think it’s interest and care. I’m interested in whoever I’m speaking to. I care.
Ladies and gentlemen…the weekend
I simply give you one of the gifts of Twitter, an account that exists simply to tweet this reminder: Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
Elite Mindset – Leading with Belief
Belief influences our feelings, behaviours and actions. They guide our decisions. In this way, they determine our effectiveness as leaders.
In the face of Omicron uncertainty, focus on resilience
The spread of the Omicron variant of coronavirus is probably the most significant threat we’ve had since the start of the pandemic.
Elite Mindset – Be Connective
Knee joint with the ACL in the centre Muscles are our strength but we can only use them fully when we also focus on our Connective Tissue About 35 years ago, my life largely revolved around playing Basketball (with a little study and work in there somewhere!). At that...
Flowing with the flow
You know the phrase: "Going with the Flow"? Yesterday I felt like I was "flowing with the flow", allowing myself to be relaxed while various setbacks happened on a travel day, then seeking to "guide" the flow only subtly. My day was a regular monthly trip by train for...
Half of all five-year-olds today will live to 100
Half of all five-year-olds alive today (in the USA) will live to 100.from a recent Modern Elder Academy email Thought-provoking demographic factoid, huh? While we become more aware of such increasing active longevity decades in the "developed" world, last week I was...
Share your brilliance
Aside from my core client work (see my home page at tommccallum.com which shows the type of people I love to work with), I also mentor a number of individuals and businesses. Last week, in a mentoring session for two young people with a small local business, we agreed...
Curiosity + Openness = Serendipity
Yesterday I had a wonderful LunchClub conversation that ranged widely. As I listened, I realised that I could connect that person with numerous individuals from outside their existing networks with whom they could explore further on various topics. Earlier this week I...
My Carbon Footprint hypocrisy
How much focus do we each pay to our carbon footprint? I would say that I feel more of us are caring about this, and, since COP26 in Glasgow, paying specific attention to how many tonnes of CO2 we contribute each year. in addition, friends know me to be relatively...
Learning Balance
A personal and quite pensive post of lessons I learned around finding balance in life and work.
Elite Mindset – make time to then choose Intellect over Effort
I always recommend for leaders to take time to focus on the “M” in the formula above, to take time out from their busy schedule…
Elite Mindset – Be as curious as a Dog
Be as curious as a dog. To a dog every moment is confusing, every moment is like “I don’t know what is going on here,…
Elite Mindset – listen to your internal music
Their creative process is dominated by external noise as opposed to internal music. I love to listen and learn!
My kind of people
People who get excited about stars, moon and sunset are my kind of people. Think of a few things you have been present to in…
Value those who can think outside the box
You can practice, you can learn to think outside the box, to connect the dots in ways others would not have thought possible.
Are you getting enough of all seven types of rest?
The seven types of rest, then: Physical Rest, Mental Rest, Sensory Rest, Creative Rest, Emotional Rest, Social Rest, and Spiritual Rest.
Practice deep play
Winston Churchill, on the importance of what I would call deep play. He himself focussed on painting for this.
She turned the tables on me!
Yesterday my guest on this week’s #WhatComesNextLive was my friend Alex Barker, who turned the tables on me.
Elegant simplicity in engineering
The Victoria Line on the London Underground has hump-back stations which apparently saves energy and help the trains run faster. Elegant simplicity.
The only way to avoid criticism
Aristotle puts it best: “There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing”. I choose instead #BeMoreYou.
Every challenge is a learning opportunity
My Purpose is Making Potential Possible. Every challenge is a learning opportunity
A Good Day
Let the gratefulness overflow into blessing all around you, and then it will really be a good day.
Do more
In our increasingly “VUCA” Covid world, we can feel a little powerless about the unpredictability of major events, or Black Swans, but we can “Do…
Could you become an Uncertainty Expert?
I I’m always curious to learn more, though, so recently joined a series of “interactive documentaries” called “The Uncertainty Experts”.
Time for some new clients and mentees, could that be you?
I do have lots of energy and so want to take on more this winter. I’m therefore now open to taking on a few more…
Always active, never busy
Whenever anyone asks me “are you busy?”, I always answer “no”, then after the ensuing awkward pause, add: “always active, never busy”.
The meaning of life is to give your gift away
The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your…