Category: Practice

• February 13, 2018

  Good Enough is Not Enough

  Do you have a Growth Mindset or a Fixed Mindset? This video is about the danger of being “good enough” in many things. As the world grows ever more connected, and ever more complex – those that accumulate a whole collection of “good enough” skills will suffer. Those that can choose to be bad in…
• August 1, 2017

  How to Be Boring (5 Specific Areas to Develop)

  This is the detailed guide to boring others. In this video from Portugal, I share the 5 best ways that you can develop an ability to bore the people around you. The 5 Specific Areas to Develop to Be Boring Negative Attitude No Interest in Others Stay in your Comfort Zone Be a People Pleaser…
• May 16, 2017

  Rich Mulholland’s YouTube Interview with Conor Neill

  Rich Mulholland is an entrepreneur, author and keynote speaker.  He tells powerful short little stories with impact though his videos.  I had a chance to do a short interview with Rich during the Entrepreneurs’ Organisation Global Leadership Conference in Frankfurt recently. I think you really should subscribe to Rich’s YouTube Channel, you will lose out…
• March 14, 2017

  Success is a few good habits repeated every day, failure is…

  Jim Rohn had a wonderful saying: “Success is a few good habits repeated every day, Failure is a few bad decisions repeated every day” If you are reading this via email, the video is here Success is a Few Good Habits Repeated Every Day An apple a day keeps the doctor away. This is old…
• April 10, 2016

  How to Become Mentally Strong: The Practice of Resilience

  

  What is Resilience? Resilience: the ability to stay creative and motivated in an environment of chaos and change.   Personally, I faced a huge time of chaos and change in late 2008.  My company was going bankrupt and my family was falling apart.  It is from this time of great difficulty that I learnt most…
• March 25, 2016

  How to Concentrate

  I met Dandapani at EO Instanbul University and have since met him in Barcelona when he came to run a 1 day retreat for our chapter of the EO organisation. He spent 10 years as a Hindu monk, and now shares what he learnt about using our mind and our awareness in an intentional manner.…
• January 26, 2016

  Need an Easy Win?

  Some days feel harder to get going than others.  The big mission feels a bit too big for today.  I need something else, something smaller: An Easy Win. What are my easy wins? One is a blog post.  I never allow myself to take more than 20 minutes before I hit publish, and there is…
• February 20, 2015

  Put somebody on a treadmill and I’ll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.

  

  Reading an interview with Will Smith (he is deep and a keen observer of the human condition), I came across this statement from him: “Put somebody on a treadmill and I’ll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life.” Will Smith Harsh. Brutal. but… is it True? I think…
• November 23, 2014

  Systematic Abandonment

  We collect habits, items, people that served us in a given moment, but are not serving us now.  Human beings come pretty well designed for Systematic Accumulation, adding more and more plans, projects, dreams to my bucket list. As we move through life we accumulate dreams, fantasies, projects, stuff.  I often think about what else I would…
• October 14, 2013

  Knowingly Bad

  

  You can’t begin to improve at something until you are “knowingly bad”. If you are not aware of the lack of something, you haven’t got “taste” yet.  If you think you are the best blogger in the world, two things could be true: You really are the best blogger in the world You are blind…