Finding Balance between Ambition and Peace of Mind, External vs Internal Success

“If someone followed your life and took 24 hours of film of everything you do for a day and they edited that into a one-hour documentary… the editor could decide to make you look like the worst villain ever or the greatest hero ever… it depends on which parts of your day he puts into … Read more

The 1 Mental Hurdle That You Must Overcome to Succeed, by Billionaire Ray Dalio

Billionaire Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater, one of the world’s largest and best-performing hedge funds.  Recently, Ray published his lessons in his book, Principles. Here’s the opening paragraph of Ray Dalio’s book… “Before I begin telling you what I think, I want to establish that I am a “dumb shit” who doesn’t know … Read more

Life is Difficult. How to Handle it… The Road Less Travelled by M Scott Peck

This weeks video is inspired by a book: The Road Less Travelled, by M. Scott Peck. The book begins with the statement “Life is difficult”. It is my failure to understand this, believing that my life should be easy and problem-free that is the root of suffering. Life is not meant to be easy, and … Read more

Innovation and the Creative Process: Ferran Adria’s 3 Types of Innovation

This video is about Innovation and the 3 types of innovation as described by Ferran Adrià, the world’s best chef.  He tells us that there are 3 levels of innovation… and that it is type 3 innovation that really moves humanity through a step change in progress. Read more on Innovation on the blog: 4 … Read more

How to Build Trust, Improve Relationships and Enhance the Quality of our Lives

This video is about Building Trust – and how building Trust will Improve Relationships and the Enhance the Quality of our Lives. After you have food and shelter, it is the quality of the relationships that really make your life. Relationships are about trust. Where there is no trust, there is no relationship. I’d love … Read more

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 … Read more

Should all Leaders start a YouTube Channel? | with Christoph Magnussen

This is an interview that I recorded with Christoph Magnussen during the EO Global Leadership Conference recently. It is part of a series of video blogs that Christoph is producing called: WorkDay Vlog. Christoph has some great videos on his channel Workday Vlog and Worktools  – covering the new way of work, cloud tools for … Read more

We are Blind to anything beyond our Imagination, A story of a lost tribe in Papua New Guinea

This is a story about a lost tribe in Papua New Guinea. They were brought to the city of Singapore and shown skyscrapers, airports, factories, supermarkets, homes and life. When they were on their way back to their mountain village, they were asked: “What is the most incredible thing you have seen during your days … Read more