Category: Getting Personal
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Waiting for the “Perfect Moment”
I’m guilty of sometimes waiting for that “perfect moment”. Its a great way to spoil this current moment. Last night, I was up in Johnnie Fox’s pub with my brother, sister and their loves in the mountains behind Dublin. We had spent most of a week together over the Christmas period. My sister said “I…
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Intentionality and Defiance
As I grow ever older, staying fit requires ever greater intention. I sometimes wish to myself that it might be a little easier, but then quickly realise that this is my inner saboteur distracting me. If you are going uphill then you are going towards success. I so often want writing to become easier. I…
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Manifesto: Keep Wonder Alive, Join me and make the #idontknow Commitment
In the spirit of changing myself for the better (and becoming a better father to my daughter), I wrote a short manifesto. http://cono.rs/idontknow In the next 10 years through to 2024, 1 Billion jobs will be taken over by machines. Google cars will replace taxis. IBM’s Watson will replace customer service staff. We cannot out-reason the machines. We must…
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Accepting Feedback
At the end of every course I teach at IESE Business School, all participants give extensive feedback on their experience of the course, the facilities… and on my role as a teacher. When the summarized feedback reaches me a couple of weeks later, I open the pdf in a state of nervous tension. I am preparing…
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After Action Review: 100,000 Blog Readers in 24 Hours
I’ve been blogging fairly consistently now for about 4 years. I try not to focus on metrics, just spend time writing posts. I try to write for myself, not to write for fame or fortune or impact… However, there has always been a little dream that sits at the corner of my conscious mind of…
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Deserving Money? 4 Millionaires Earn and Spend.
The 4 Millionaires Four millionaires are sitting on a park bench. Its a sunny Thursday morning. While many others are working the 9 to 5 routine, George, David, Jonathan and Paul are relaxing in the park. As you look at George, David, Jonathan and Paul nothing much stands out. 4 standard guys in a park. They…
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A Manila taxi driver scam and other doubts about blogging
I don’t know what to write about. It happens. I haven’t written anything on the blog for a couple of weeks now and know that if I leave it for much longer this habit of blogging will become harder and harder. So I’ll write this post. What to write about when I have nothing to…
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Closing Chapters: If you are falling, dive.
When I was 13 years old, American Football became the passion of my group of friends at school in Dublin. We would play our version of touch American Football up on a tarmac area behind school. I remember catching the football and running for the end zone. A member of the other team caught my…
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My daughter’s flower safari
My mum has a fantastic garden in Dublin. My daughter took my camera off on a flower safari around the garden. Here is a collage of some of her photos of an Irish garden: What you don’t see is the 3 kilos of strawberries that came out of the garden and are now in the…
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Happy Saint Patricks Day
photo credit: Hans Kremmers “May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.” Old Irish way of saying…