How To Become A Jedi Master Part 1

How To Become a Jedi Master Part 1

I have a dear friend who tells me that I am too serious and that I need to relax and be more of myself. Which just goes to prove that she has met me!

So as a personal development specialist who is also a sci-fi fan let me offer …

Perfection is flawed

As a business coach I am going to recommend that you don't strive for perfection. That in fact the quest for perfection is a fool's quest and should be abandoned immediately.

Now the reason behind my thinking is very simple...perfection itself doesn't exist. It's an …

"Never give up, never surrender!"

A few years ago I was on a plane flying to the beautiful city of Seattle from England. I was on one of those planes with the neat mini television screens set in the seat in front of you. I flipped through the available channels, saw a film on the listings that looked …

A List of People

Recently a friend of mine at work emailed me a list of the casualties suffered by the British Army in Iraq. I wasn't sure why he had sent it round apart from the fact that he is an ex-military chap himself and I assumed he was sharing some news. It seemed like quite a …

Enjoy your victories!

Three years ago I joined a company with fifteen people. Today it is a group of companies spanning three locations, three industries and totaling more than one hundred and fifty people. And that's not what this blog is about.

What it is about is that three years ago …

Is there a lion outside your window?

So is there a lion outside your window? Yes your window, the one you can see from where you are. And if your somewhere other than in a room look around...can you see a lion?

Okay now I've been away from Virb for a little while and maybe you're thinking I took a bump …

Knock Out

I entered the ring as the cocky young new comer quite confident in my natural ability and power.

Twelve minutes later I ended up face down on the canvass with my head ringing and the taste of defeat in my mouth.

Today, the day after my defeat, (boxing here is a …

Following on, following through

One of the most common flaw made when people are learning to play golf is failing to follow through properly. 'Following through' in golf is literally the part of the swing after the club has struck the ball. The ball has, a fraction of a second earlier, gone sailing …

Ideas are not enough

Half way into an hour and a half commute to work and the rain was still falling. The roads were slick with water and visibility could have been better. For some reason the traffic had slowed to a crawl and then I saw on the inside lane the reason. A car had broken down …

Pushing the Envelope

Sixty years ago, October 14 1947, to be exact a young pilot climbed into an experimental plane and took off on a flight to achieve something that had never been achieved before...to break the sound barrier. The prevailing wisdom at the time was mixed with some thinking …

Changing the world

How do you feel about the world right now? Are you happy with the global state of affairs or does international conflict, the threats to the environment or global injustice touch your conscience. On a more local scale would you have people be more polite, more …

Evolution

Evolution

~ a process in which something passes by degrees to a more advanced or mature stage

I'm a big fan of the show Heroes (good acting, complicated plotting and great cliff hangers how could I not like it?) and one of the central themes is evolution. In the …

Taking life less seriously.

I was extolling the importance of my job and the necessity to take it seriously to a guest at a dinner a few years ago when the guest I was speaking to started to smirk. I asked what was funny and he asked what was the worst that could happen if I got things wrong. At …

I was feeling the blues, then I met a man with no shoes.

Imagine the scene; a cold winter's morning in Chicago in 1920. The snow is falling as a business man is walking to the train station to board a train for a job interview. Whilst he had dressed as well as he could his coat was several years old and did little to keep the …

Only Books

Only Books

The story I am about to relate happened about seven years ago and is as clear today as when it happened. It was a bright summer's day and I was strolling down a high street doing a little window shopping with my fiancée when we saw a woman walking towards …

Small Steps

"As we become drunkards by so many separate drinks,
so we become saints and authorities and experts
by so many separate acts and hours of work."
William James

Consider where you are in life. Are you the person you wanted to be when you were younger? If you answer …