Don’t ask why – it would make me seem pathetic if I gave you an accurate answer – but sometimes we just wake up with the miserable head on – thinking about all the crap stuff. Today is that day. Beautiful sunny day outside – dark, windswept, cold and lonely inside (my head that is).
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My clients do love their jargon – especially all that mumbo-jumbo about teeth and gums – and this was best evidenced by listening to them attempting to introduce themselves to a fictitious business audience at last week’s marketing workshops. In conversation with a client last Thursday, we concluded that, if all the jargon is removed,
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I arrived at the Tower Hotel in London at 5.45pm last night. Tired and quite a bit burned out – all I wanted to do was get to my room, take a hot bath, get some supper, make a few phone calls, get to sleep before 9.00pm. There was a long line of people waiting
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I’m thoroughly enjoying Orhan Pamuk’s collection of essays “Other Colours” and have been reading his review of the works of Andre Gide, French 20th Century Nobel Prize winning novelist. I’m not familar with Gide but I am a trusting reader of Pamuk and quite proud of my discovery of history’s most famous Turkish writer (himself
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/23/fire.map/index.html Interactive map of Southern California on fire. My house is in Ramona – surrounded by the McCoy, the Witch and the Poomacha fires. In total nearly a million people displaced across California, 400000 acres burned. If you click on the red circles it tells the information about each fire. As of Monday, my house
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Whilst we are running around at breakneck speed, launching a new company – a moment of perspective when I read an email this morning from our amazing uber-techie queen, Kimberly Black: We were evacuated sunday at 830pm Were about 30 miles away at a hotel My mom stayed all her neighbors houses burned Our house
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Arriving at the Hilton Metropole in Birmingham last night, the last thing in the world I wanted was a problem. I’m tired and I just need a rest. The hotel is heaving with guests, many of whom are connected to The Showcase in the NEC next door – at 8.30pm there is a long line
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9.00am at the Hilton Hotel in Cobham, Surrey. We have 10 people in the room for our workshop – we are expecting 40. There are road accidents on the M25 at junctions 8, 9 and 10 – the motorway has been closed. Our delegates are in cars and mini-buses, stranded. Mobile phone calls coming in
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I recall reading Covey’s 7 habits about 20 years ago for the first time – and the two important lessons that first made an impression on me were: between stimulus and response we have freedom to choose how we respond and even though there is a “way” to lead an ordered and balanced life –
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