(You can’t even complete a marathon if you are sprinting) Set your pace in accordance with the distance A long and fulfilling career is like a marathon. We so overestimate what we can do in a day, and underestimate what we achieve in a year. “Everything important in Life takes time” Tom Peters In order … Read more
The title sounds a bit “salesy”… but that is what the video is about. My friend and colleague at Vistage, Harry Marsland, shared with me one of his secrets to build a successful marketing agency in the UK. He has 5 questions that he would ask to his favourite clients each year: Harry’s 5 Sales … Read more
I first met Dandapani at an Entrepreneurs Organisation event in Istanbul in 2012, I have since met him in Boston and then helped bring him to Barcelona to spend a day with our Entrepreneurs’ Organisation chapter. Dandapani teaches some simple but highly important lessons about awareness and our mind, and how to be intentional about … Read more
How to be Resourceful It is more valuable to be resourceful, than full of resources. It is more powerful to think in terms of possibilities, rather than what you could do with what you have now. Our imagination is an incredible gift, if we use it to imagine… not to find excuses. “Poverty is not … Read more
Charlie Munger on uncommon sense… Competence – you can only be trusted as competent if you clearly understand the limits of your competence. The great danger of experts is they forget the limits of their expertise – “it is better to trust a man of 130 IQ who thinks he is 125 IQ, than to … Read more
Addition More, more, more… more projects, more goals, more connections… is the path to overwhelm. Subtraction Less, less, less… less projects, less goals, less connections… is the path to focus and renewal and energy. I heard Mathew McConnachy in an interview yesterday. He said that back 10 years ago he was a movie actor, he … Read more
Happy Saint Patrick’s day. There is an old Irish toast that I find poetic and moving. I’m sharing it here today on the occasion of Saint Patrick’s day. It is all the more touching given that we have travelled few roads and met few distant friends in the last 12 months due to the Covid … Read more
I’ve been reviewing my purpose statement. I rewrote it earlier this year. The year of Covid shook up my routines and threw me out of balance. It took some discipline with mentors, coaches and my journal to get re-connected to why I get up in the morning. My purpose is “to inspire and challenge others … Read more
Our mindset creates our experience of life. With a poor mindset, my experience of life will suffer. With a better mindset, my experience of life will be of greater joy and resourcefulness. What is Mindset? Your mindset is your collection of beliefs that shape your thought habits. Thought habits affect how you think, what you … Read more
My sister shared this poem with me many years ago as a powerful reflection on life. What is important about a person’s life? The numbers, the material possessions… or something more… A reflection for a Friday afternoon. The Dash By Linda Ellis I read of a man who stood to speakAt the funeral of a … Read more