A friend recently recommended ‘Yes Man’ to me. It is a fantastic book and film in which the main character essentially says ‘yes’ to everything he is asked and lots of good things happen as a result. However, he also later learns that ’yes’ is not always the right answer. And this got me thinking [...]
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In a restaurant earlier this week, I overheard the people on the table next to me complaining about the food not being hot enough. A few minutes later mid-meal when the waiter asked if everything was okay, they said ‘Fine thanks’ and then, when he was out of earshot, they got back to their complaining. [...]
‘If only I had more time’ is surely one of the most over-used expressions in 21st century society. It seems that people are often prevented from doing things they want to do because they don’t have time. So imagine for a moment that it were you saying ‘if only I had more time’ to do what [...]
‘Why should I? I don’t want to!’ said a teenage girl protesting to her mother earlier today in a shopping centre. It looked like they were clothes shopping for the daughter. Maybe the mother wanted to get something that the girl didn’t think was cool enough. Hardly an unusual situation perhaps but it got me [...]
Earlier this week, I had a highly productive and enjoyable business meeting. Have you ever been to meetings where everybody was motivated by the bottom line or perpetuating the vicious and unproductive circle of keeping their line managers happy for an ‘easy life’? In this case, it was so refreshing and unusual to have a [...]
Have you ever woken up and had a huge list of things to get done and very little inclination to do them? This morning, I did. However, after a coffee with full of procrastination, I eventually got on with things. On my way to the drycleaners, I bumped into an old friend who I hadn’t [...]
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