Acceptance
People love to make plans. It is human nature to want to know where we are going. The psychologist Fitzurgh Dodson echoed many other writers when he said, ‘Without goals and plans to reach them, you...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Optimism
We all live in the same world. And yet the world each of us experiences is very different – not because things are different on the outside, but because the inner landscape each of us inhabits varies...
View ArticleIgnorance
Over the last hundred years, we have made astonishing progress. In the fields of technology, communication, medicine, engineering, and a host of others, our achievements are remarkable. Our ancestors...
View ArticleOptimism and Pessimism – Different Views of Reality
Nothing is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. – Shakespeare The master told his disciples that we never see the world as it is, but only see what we want to see. A passer by heard the master and...
View ArticleSeeing Things From a Dfferent Perspective
I remember the very first time I traveled long haul by plane. The experience of looking down and seeing so many different countries below me, and from such an unfamiliar perspective, made a big impact...
View ArticleAchieving More by Doing Less
We are usually told that, to achieve anything of value – to become successful or wealthy – we need to work hard. If you want to build muscle, you’ve got to work out, right? If you want to pass an exam,...
View ArticleThe Importance of Balance
Cycles The world is naturally cyclical. We seem to have forgotten this as we rush to make ‘progress’ and to ‘achieve.’ The tides ebb and flow. Day follows night follows day. The seasons cycle endlessly...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of Letting Go
By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try, the world is beyond the winning. – Lao Tzu Are you trying to achieve something? Most people want to...
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The Importance of Leadership
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. ~Lao Tzu When you think of ‘leadership,’ what comes to mind is probably...
View ArticleFinding your purpose
Henry David Thoreau wrote that ‘most men live lives of quiet desperation,’ and I’m sure we all know what this feels like. Life can sometimes seem like a treadmill – running to get nowhere. I have no...
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