Giving willingly makes business sense
Hands up those of you who have to attend networking events in the normal course of your business? I have to and do attend hundreds over the year. Even if you don’t attend specific networking functions there are always times in your career where networking has a role. Having done so for quite some time […]
Giving Back…. is adopting a positive attitude
What does giving back mean to you? For me it’s being thankful and showing that thanks for everything life has afforded to me in my second chance. For everything I do that has a benefit for myself I try to balance that off by doing something for someone else that has no self-benefit at all. […]
Giving Quality – a Series on Giving
When is good enough NOT giving quality? I am getting pretty sick of the ‘near enough is good enough’ attitude that seems to be pervading everything from white goods, core products, the service industry, public services all the way up to the highest echelons of power. Guess what? Good enough is NOT giving quality. Nearly […]
Focus on a Positive Approach
I’ve mentioned the problem with negativity in a previous article so thought I’d balance off with why I am convinced positive thinking attracts positive results and is demonstrated in a positive approach to life. Take a positive approach for positive outcomes I, like many others, keep finding that taking the positive approach to problems, challenges […]
Who Cares About The Future?
Do you think the future is your responsibility? I don’t have children and there are none in my immediate family. Logically, and unemotionally, there is no reason why I should be particularly bothered about what happens to, or on our planet in the future as I probably won’t be around to be affected by it. […]
Stop with the Negative Waves: Life is not all doom and gloom
Too much doom and gloom is bad for you! I find February in the UK is a pretty awful month. It’s easy to never see daylight with the dark mornings and dark evenings and the weather is often gloomy too. The promise of Spring seems a long way away off in February. This February however, […]
Brexit: dealing with monumental change
I tend not to get involved with writing on political issues however Brexit must be one of the biggest and most challenging changes to happen in the UK for a generation and will have a direct effect on all of us. Many of my contacts and connections work in the human resources arena for both […]
Instant Gratification – The “I want it now” Syndrome
Instant gratification does appear to be entering our DNA and we are blithely accepting that is the way life is. I personally believe that the internet has a lot to do with this. With so much noise, drivel and superfluous nonsense hitting us through computers, TV’s tablets, phones I am not surprised that we are […]
“Stupid is as Stupid Does” – Forrest Gump
Will someone please start cutting away at the red tape of health and safety! I get the basic principle of why it was brought in but, just like the financial services act, when did it become this all-powerful behemoth that quite often stifles innovation or creativity? I get it; you do a dangerous job you […]
Is showing life’s reality politically incorrect?
Has the term political correctness become overused as an excuse to not face things we don’t like? Is it an opt out clause when we should be acting not just complaining? Life’s reality and the misuse of political correctness Hands up those of you, like me, who are becoming almost too afraid of saying things […]