Sometimes plans change, sometimes things don’t go to plan. And sometimes, when we are wiling to abandon our plans, we can find ourselves with far...
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Mind monkeys
What happens when you say “I can’t”
When you say “I can’t” what are you really saying? That you don’t know how? You don’t have the resources to? That you’re not sure you want to? That...
7 Alternatives to being right
When my son was 9, he had a meltdown over his homework. His class was transitioning to joined up handwriting, and his homework was to write a set of...
It will never work (because it doesn’t sometimes)
Do you find yourself saying that? Or do you hear that around you? Are you shaped by this thinking? I get this sometimes when I run workshops. Out of...
Two simple questions
I went for a run last week, finally, after a three months of “I really want to get back into it!” As I was in the shower afterwards, I found a...
Doing Learning
When we were on holiday, we took our kids to play badminton. My son loved it, got the hang of it pretty easily, and even invented a tennis-like...
Starting badly
A friend told me about her frog the other day. Not an actual frog that sits in a pond. The kind that sits on your to-do list. That unattractive task...
Competitors: are you leading, following or competing?
Last week I was talking with someone about competition and creativity in his 20+ years in business. Along the way he had an opportunity to copy an...
The Opposite of Resistance
“You don’t need more genius. You need less resistance.” - Seth Godin I love this quote. It's one we use in our How to be a Productivity...