Do you live life with regret? Do you find regrets prevent you from making the best decisions tomorrow? The creeping voice in your head, regrets about yesterday’s decisions that hurt your tomorrow. You can use those foibles as fuel, pushing you to action. “I wish I’d done better in that project” “I should have saidContinue reading “Two thieves”
Category Archives: Life Lessons
The enemy of great is not bad, its good enough
I was sitting in Costa this morning “Hop reading”. Its basically where I hop from one subject to the next in an ADHD, Jazz like riff of reading one article or link or Video and then after the hour I have been all over the place, ending up reading a completely different topic to theContinue reading “The enemy of great is not bad, its good enough”
Be prepared
You won’t read another post on like this on why preparation is important, I wanted to offer a view on a reason which is never mentioned but is key: The better you prepare for something the quicker you can forget about it afterwards. As humans we tend to dwell on the bad experiences, that withContinue reading “Be prepared”
Take your time
I have worked in consulting for over 20 years and it has always been the same. An expectation that you know everything and you must reply quickly to the client or what is the point? they have hired you as an expensive expert after all! So the industry has all sorts of clever and notContinue reading “Take your time”
No crabby pants allowed only happy clams
As I write this post the bank holiday weekend still has half of Monday left but I can say without a shadow of a doubt that it has been one of my best long weekends for ages. I am at peace with ‘the me’ down at the beach. Whether it be short walks on theContinue reading “No crabby pants allowed only happy clams”
No man is an island
Learning of friends losing loved ones and relatives always leaves me a little sad, even if they were not direct friends it effects us all. More than ever this poem by John Donne says how I feel right now. (excuse the use of noun ‘Man’ it was written in 1624) ((Spot the Hemingway title… ))Continue reading “No man is an island”
No instruction manual for being a parent
One of my favourite things to read on my company’s intranet are the new parent posts. The captured moment of a beautiful new baby with the smiling parents, looking overjoyed and a little bit worried at the enormity of the responsibility they have now. They remind me when my children were born, feeling just theContinue reading “No instruction manual for being a parent”
I never miss four
This is Jonny Wilkinson one of the greatest fly half’s in the history of world Rugby. He is retired now but a great proponent of my theory of the ‘hardest worker in the room’ He worked tirelessly to perfect his skills. Too small, too slow, too weak. Yet he became a legend. A quick story:Continue reading “I never miss four”
Perspective
Not sure why I remember this today but it just came back to me this morning. I remember travelling to Scotland years ago, we went right up to the Northern most tip of our beautiful island. I had driven for over a day, got a boat /ferry to get to Lochinver, Sutherland in western Scotland.Continue reading “Perspective”
Learning from rain
After weeks of sun and dry weather it finally rained in the UK last night. It was in this rainstorm I learned a profound lesson which I will apply to all things from now on. The rain was welcome relief for people, animals and fauna alike. Anyway, the rain was not light last night butContinue reading “Learning from rain”
