Hello, I’m NCS.
This is where I think out loud, mostly from the little yellow beach hut I built on Lancing beach. Notes on reading, work, life and lighthouses, written when something is worth writing down. More about me.
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Make the right decisions, or make your decisions right
We make decisions everyday. Most are easy to call decisions which require very little energy. Some are key decisions that required your focus, energy and time to reflect. You know there is a BUT coming…. But those people that wait too long to make a decision don’t get far. A friend of mine from the… Read more
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Just one book
My posts of late have had an air of self help about them. I want to mix things up a little in 2021. So today I was listening to the radio in the car and just caught someone asking a question, I never heard the answer, I switched channels and could not find my way… Read more
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2021: Don’t be this person
So you want to lose weight, get fit, see some gain physically in 2021. You have been a member of a gym but its too far away, OR the equipment is too old OR you don’t like the staff. You learn of a gym closer to work, its has new equipment and the people look… Read more
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2021: Just Ship It
New year resolutions are always so tedious, so self quickly and indulgently shared with the world on some platform or other, or in a facile conversation. If ‘The definition of insanity is repeating the same tasks over and over again expecting different results’ a new years resolution must be insanity on steroids. I don’t mean… Read more
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Lessons from a street sweeper
Lessons can be learned from every experience and from every memory. My mother used to tell me when I was 7 years old “Nathan, watch that man”. She was referring to the street sweeper, a man with a broom and cart who would clean our street every week for years. “Watch that man and tell… Read more
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2020 Finish line
Author’s note: I sat at my writing desk this morning with a real uncertainty on what I would write today. I have a ‘Crimbo Limbo’ state of mind at the moment. So I decided the most purposeful post I could write today was about ending things you started, Enjoy. We are nearly there, the end… Read more
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Leadership or just taking a walk?
‘If you are leading and no one is following you are just taking a walk’, that is the age old adage but it doesn’t mean only leading when you have staff or a following. Whether you are are considered a leader in your organisation/community or not, you can lead and you should be a leader.… Read more
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You are now in ‘Chrimbo Limbo‘
Some of my American readers are wondering what on earth ‘the chrimbo limbo’ is, allow me to explain. The ‘chrimbo limbo’ is the period of time between Christmas and New Year when days seem to merge into each other, nobody really knows what to do and everything just gets a bit weird. “Seriously, What Day… Read more
