Decision Fatigue
2nd July 2025 When you reached home in the evening after a hard days work, and were asked by your spouse, “What would you like for dinner?” Have you ever responded by saying, “Whatever, you decide.” You are most likely tired of all the decisions you had to make during the day & suffering from […]
Build Resilience..
1st July 2025 Success is never linear. We all face failure at some point. Life is all about handling the peaks & trough. Resilience is one ability which helps us recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. It’s the capacity to adapt to stressful situations and bounce back from adversity. Resilience is a […]
Learn from failure
30th June 2025 While discussing inventions, Thomas Edison’s associate, Walter S. Mallory, once said to him, “Isn’t it a shame that with the tremendous amount of work you have done, you haven’t been able to get any results?” Edison replied, “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things […]
Are You Letting The Bull Get Away?
27th June 2025 “Don’t wait for the perfect moment, take the moment & make it perfect.” But so often we wait for the conditions to be just right – the right weather, the right person to accompany us, the perfect location, the perfect time, the right mood etc, etc – and while we’re waiting the […]
‘The Gordian Knot’
19th June 2025 According to a famous legend, the ancient land of Phrygia (in what is now modern-day Turkey) was without a king. An oracle proclaimed that the next man to enter the city in an oxcart would become its king. Soon after, a man named Gordius rolled into Phrygia on an oxcart with his […]
The Hidden Cost of Certainty
13th June 2025 We are always looking for certainity. In all decisions we make, we look at trying to reduce the odds. But certainity can only lead to a limited outcome. As they say, we need to leave the safe shores to discover new lands and ships are the safest in the harbour, but they […]
YOUR FOUR MINUTE MILE
10th June 2025 The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer once observed: “Most people take the limits of their vision to be the limits of the world. A few do not, Join them.” The life you see this very moment isn’t necessarily the life of your future. You might be viewing things through the eyes of your fears, […]
HTDO
22th May 2025 My grandma always used to tell me “You catch more flies with sugar than with vinegar” and this is advice I always kept close to my heart. Being nice costs us nothing, it’s a simply a choice, and what does it say about us if we choose the alternative. Let me illustrate […]
The applause will come
20th May 2025 t’s been said that the champions aren’t made in the ring, they are only recognised there. The champion is made in the dark, cold, lonely mornings when they’re doing work. Disciplined work, Repetitive work, Boring work, Lonely work, Work that the competitor is not willing to endure consistently. The truth of the […]
Yhprums law
19th May 2025 It’s the start of a wonderful week, lets start with a positive thought. I recently came across the ‘YHPRUM’s law’ which is playful take on Murphy’s Law spelt backwards, suggesting that “anything that can go right, will go right.” It’s the opposite of Murphy’s Law, which famously states that “If anything can […]