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Life Advice from a 70 year old…
All taken from this post: 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known from Kevin Kelly, (thanks to my brother for sharing it with me a couple of weeks ago!). Kevin Kelly was the founding editor of Wired. He reached 70 last year and shared 103 bits of life advice. I find these lists often […]
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Indra Nooyi “Leadership in Times of Crisis”
Yesterday I had the privilege of spending an hour with the former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo as she spoke with the global Vistage community. The title of her talk was “Leadership in Times of Crisis”. Indra shared her 5 “C”s of leadership in organisations: Competence – “you have to have at least one ‘hip […]
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Consistency… the key to Long Term Positive Impact
It is not what we do on our best day that will truly make an impact on the quality of our lives, it is the habit we can stick to on our worst day that will make a lasting difference. For the last 2 years, I have joined a strava monthly 100kms run challenge every […]
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“It’s not about you, it’s about the audience”
Lee Child is the multimillion selling author of the Jack Reacher series of novels. When Lee was 14, his drama school teacher changed his life. “It is not about you, it is about the audience”. In a recent episode of the High Performance Podcast, author Lee Child spoke of the impact his drama teacher had […]
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“No one is coming to save us”
In 1972, a plane carrying rugby team from Uruguay crashed in the high Andes. 25 passengers survived the crash… and then found themselves trapped high on a glacier. Initially they waited for search parties to arrive. On day 10, they heard on the radio “the search has been called off”. This day they realised that […]
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The Tyranny of Convenience
Convenience makes things easy… but what is easy is not always whats most important, valuable or effective. We choose between the options we see, not all the options… we’ve got to be increasingly careful that we don’t choose the path that is just easiest to see. Convenience food… is not health food. Tech companies work […]
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Freedom is not an Empty Calendar
What is freedom? What is it to achieve freedom in life? I spent many years thinking that “an empty calendar is freedom”. Recently a coach had me rethink this perspective… an empty calendar is dangerous… it puts my life in the hands of my “lizard brain” 😉 What are you aiming at? Are you working […]
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The Courage to be Rubbish
I get requests for advice from people starting youtube channels. My first piece of advice is “make bad videos”. When you are starting out, don’t aim for good… aim for done. If you make 1 “bad” video a week for 52 weeks… you will make many bad videos, but you will accidentally create a few […]
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Redefining Failure
“Living Safely is Dangerous” Nietzsche What is your relationship to success and failure? I have been reflecting these recent weeks about how I respond to “failure” – when things do not turn out as I hoped or wished. The video below shares my thinking about a better way of approaching failure in our lives. How […]
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Set Goals of Character and Ability, not of Achievement and Status
I’ve felt that I’ve been more anxious about life over the last week or two… and have been reflecting in my journal about what might have triggered these negative thoughts. As we begin the new year, I’m in a mix between anxiety about setting goals and feeling an urgent need to rapidly get started on […]
