Personal Growth or Personal Stagnation?

Personal Growth or Personal Stagnation?

What’s stopping you from achieving personal growth? Michael Jordan recently said that the only thing that held him back was himself and there’s a lot of truth in his statement. So let’s have a look at the ten most common reasons for our not achieving what we want to.

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We’re Asking the Wrong Question!

We’re Asking the Wrong Question!

In pubs, clubs, restaurants, business meetings, blogs, chats, I hear the same question being asked – When will this economic crisis end? If the end means returning to things as they were, I believe that this is the wrong question to be asking! Put it this way – if you were with someone who you [...]

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The Key to Personal Growth: Are you a Van Gogh or a Matisse?

The Key to Personal Growth: Are you a Van Gogh or a Matisse?

When I think back on life, I realise that the times when I’ve really thrived, when life was exciting, was when I decided to march to the rhythm of my own drum.  The times I’ve felt stifled, on the other hand, were when I conformed to everyone else’s view of the norm. This has taught [...]

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10 Things I Wish I Had Known And Stuck To From Early On

10 Things I Wish I Had Known And Stuck To From Early On

I’m over  50 years old, and whilst I’m not a great believer in regrets, I’ve made more than a few mistakes along the way. Many people at this point would write something like “and I’ve learned from every mistake!” Unfortunately, being stubborn, that has not always been the case and I’ve repeated some mistakes several [...]

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Social Media and the Holidays – Scheduling Tricks and Tips

Social Media and the Holidays – Scheduling Tricks and Tips

I’m often asked how do bloggers keep blogging during the holiday season when family commitments can often find you away from home without a regular internet connection. The answer, of course, is that we are so committed to writing that we always take a laptop with us, with an internet dongle, and post from the [...]

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Denial will Always Hamper Your Personal Development

Denial will Always Hamper Your Personal Development

Many people believe that if they are “spiritual” or wish to succeed in life, they should ignore unpleasant things that happen to them, in effect denying that they have happened and/or have had an effect on them. But it will  have the opposite effect, hampering personal development and growth.

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Ernest Hemmingway and the Recession

Ernest Hemmingway and the Recession

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. Ernest Hemmingway

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Negative Advertising

Negative Advertising

I’ve always felt uncomfortable with the concept of negative advertising. I’ve never done it and have discouraged it when discussing business building with workshop participants. For those who don’t know what it is, negative advertising is the criticising of your competition’s products/services in your own advertising. Ryan Air learned a tough lesson yesterday – they [...]

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The Dutch Soccer Team and Personal Development

The Dutch Soccer Team and Personal Development

Many people are holding their personal development up by ignoring an important step – accepting repsosibility for their actions.

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Social Media – The Emperor’s New Clothes

Social Media – The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Media is Different, the Message Stays the Same. Facebook, LinkedIn, ecademy, Social Media Tribes are all new. Even if you look at their ancestors, the Compuserve Groups, it’s all a phenomenon that has emerged only in the last 20 years. As ever when something new arrives and survives long enough to be more than [...]

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Social Media – Scheduled Posts Problem in WordPress – Updated

Social Media – Scheduled Posts Problem in WordPress – Updated

Like many people with Socia Media sites, I use WordPress extensively. It’s simple to install, infinitely customiseable and very user friendly. However, since WordPress 2007 there has been a problem with scheduling posts – they often miss their scheduled time and sit unpublished on your admin page.

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If You Want to Win the Lottery, You Have to Buy a Ticket!

If You Want to Win the Lottery, You Have to Buy a Ticket!

It seems obvious yet so many people don’t apply this in their own lives – you can’t win the lottery without taking the necessary action: buying a ticket. And in life, the only person who can take the action necessary is you. You can get help, of course, but if you sit on the sofa [...]

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Social Media Experts?

Social Media Experts?

Social Networking has become the communication medium for the 21st century, social media the means for communicating. But so what?

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Spirituality in the workplace and the need for love

Spirituality in the workplace and the need for love

I had a conversation recently with a young man who I know has strong spiritual values. He told me he had been advised to keep his spirituality out of his work as it would put people off. The guy is not a fanatic, “shouting from the roof tops” type; rather, he is quiet, devoted to [...]

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