Attitude

You are the architect of your own fate. You are the master of your own destiny. You can do and undo things. You sow an action and reap a tendency. You sow a tendency and reap a habit. You sow a habit and reap your character. You sow your character and reap your destiny. Therefore,…

You’d think being imprisoned in a concentration camp would break your spirit wouldn’t you? It certainly would do for most people. But not for the incredible Alice Herz Sommer. Her eternal, unflinching optimism enabled her to see the experience as a gift. Imagine that – a gift! You know what? It turns out – adversity…

That’s not how you do it. You’ll never make it. No chance mate. Not likely. It’ll never happen. I won’t hold my breath. Fat chance. Don’t give up your day job. Don’t let the nay-sayers define what you can do! Do it anyway. Do it anyway. Do it anyway.

When the world is going through troubled times we sit at home watching the news and we feel powerless to help. The problems seem so massive that we feel that they are outside of our hands – that there is nothing we can do to help. If we give $100 to the Red Cross, what…

When I was a kid my Dad had a round tuit. Heard of one before? It was an circular plaque that was on the wall of his business. If you’ve always said that you would get a round tuit one day then that day has come because here’s one for you to print out for…

Think about what you do in your day, the routines you go through, the good things and the bad – are all of those things done for a good reason, for a real purpose? Probably some of them are. But definitely some of them aren’t. Some of what you do is done for the sake…

We like to think we are aware of our abilities. We like to think we know our limits. We know what we can do and we know what we can’t do. We see something difficult and say “I could never do that”. But no matter how well we know ourselves, we don’t know what we…

Know people that make a fuss over small details? We all do. They will fight tooth and nail over whether to use size 11 or 12 font for the company newsletter. They will argue all day about whether the toilet roll should be put on with the paper coming down at the back or down…

I was recently excitedly telling some people about a new project I was working on. It’s one I’m very enthusiastic about and have high hopes for. I was very surprised by their response. They talked about hurdles I would have to jump through. They raised issues, issues that were pure ‘red tape’ bureaucracy. They really…