Saw a boy this morning in a cafe happily singing along to ‘Stand By Me’ without a care in the world with his mum proudly watching, especially as he was even in tune. A bit of a jump to this perhaps, but thinking about ‘big’ life subjects today and he made me think how life [...]
Browsing Posts published in June, 2011
At a meeting earlier this week, somebody asked me what my coaching specialism was and it got me thinking about clients I have had over the past two years. I realised that if I had a specialism, I had not looked for it, I had been lucky enough that it had found me. My specialism [...]
I have a birthday coming up soon and to celebrate, we have arranged a weekend trip to Berlin. My wife introduced me to the rather enlightening concept of celebrating birthdays as opposed to just letting them pass by as quickly as possible with as little fuss as possible, but maybe that’s a subject for a [...]
To many, today is just another day. To others, it’s a new day. A chance to look at things differently to the way you usually do. If you usually the same route, try something different. If you usually look straight ahead, try looking up every now and again. What do you notice that you haven’t [...]
I recently fulfilled a childhood ambition to see Adam Ant in concert. I remember buying my first ever single ‘Kings of the Wild Frontier’ by Adam and the Ants and it was a huge (admittedly nostalgic) rush to see him after all this time. However it also made me think about why he was still playing music after [...]
So what do Abraham Lincoln and Curtis Mayfield have in common? Other than being American icons for supporting human rights in very different arenas, they also both passionately believed in continuing whatever you do until you’ve done it. Abraham Lincoln said “I do the very best I know how, the very best I can and [...]
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