The world from my little corner
How many times have we heard someone say, “I want to do thing x, but I just can’t find the time?” Or worse, we have said it ourselves. Then we wonder how successful people manage to be so successful? Did they invent themselves a time-machine or something? The simple fact is, that if something is…
We’ve all done it. We have set ourselves a goal, made a plan, and spent the time and effort to reach our intended end-game and bask in our success. But it doesn’t always go that way. In fact, rarely. “Oh no!” I hear you cry. “Do you mean that everything you’ve written over the past…
Anyone who has followed my blog for any length of time, or read my book, “Be Kind to Yourself”, would know that I spend a lot of time discussing achieving your goals, and focusing on that to completion. Keeping focus is vital to reaching our goals. We need to set a goal, make a (realistic)…
It’s the end of the old year, and the beginning of the new. Across the globe, millions of people are setting new year’s resolutions for things that they wish to change as we flip our calendars over to 2019. While this is admirable, we also are probably well aware how many times that we have…
I have spoken at length in my articles about the need to push past our fears and barriers so that we can take the steps forward that will take us towards where we want to go. However, while it is important that we have our own motivation firmly in place, we also need to recognise…
When I was working on my Ph.D. some years ago, my supervisor used to say “Are you sharpening your pencils?” This may seem a little oblique, but the meaning is really quite simple. It’s far too easy to be busy doing a thousand things, but none of those things are actually productive. The analogy of…
How many people do you know that start on a new project or venture with an abundance of enthusiasm, only for it to slowly fade away and they never mention it again. When asked about it, they will offer a vague “Oh, I’m still working on it!” Perhaps even look around your own house. How…