Sep
24
Good morning The things you do every morning, every day, become “normal”. Is your normal what you think it should be? Last night I was watching a video by Jody Jelas called 3 Steps To Winning Like A Business Champion. Step…
Sep
17
Thoreau said, “My life is like a stroll on the beach… as near to the edge as I can go.” This weekend we went to the beach. It wasn’t the best weather. The Northerlie blew straight in bringing a lot…
Sep
10
We have finally made it into our new office. It feels like a miracle of office-like proportions. The saga of moving started in June. Who knew it would take almost three months to get a phone line on – we…
Sep
03
It’s Spring … so it’s raining in Auckland. Great. Another day of people freaking out and driving like the learners they actually are. Not like the Lewis Hamilton’s they think they are when it’s dry. You might have picked up…
Aug
27
“I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.” Ayrton Senna. Yesterday I meet long-time MondayMotivator reader Katrina and her husband while watching one of my…
Aug
20
If you saw someone lying in a pool of blood after being beaten for no reason other than they were there. What would you do? 1. Help them. 2. Pretend to help them while rifliing through their bag and stealing…
Aug
13
Last week MM reader KrisC gave me a call about the Olympics and we were discussing the athletes who, under a lot of pressure, somehow pulled one out of the bag. Athletes who weren’t even really in the running and yet hit…
Aug
06
Usain Bolt seems to have a Spring in his step after the semi-final and I am looking forward to what will be an awesome Mens 100m final this morning. The 100m ‘glamour’ boys have even mostly dropped their showboating. This…
Jul
30
The Olympics is a fascinating study of human endeavour and emotion. Watching world champions, favourites, stumble or slip and crash out and just miss out on a gold. Unlucky you might have said as you saw it happen. So what…
Jul
23
Why does the NZ Herald care so much about shootings in a movie theatre in another country so much? Why would we want to go into the dark mind of a killer? I’m using the NZ Herald as an example…