Apr
04
“Laughter is like the human body wagging its tail.” — Anne Wilson Schaef via HigherAwareness.com
Apr
02
Leadership is an often written about characteristic. It is a characteristic that is aspired to and yet so few people have the ability to lead. They might be awesome managers or sales people or sportsmen but fail when it comes…
Mar
28
Mar
28
Listening is not simply hearing the words spoken. Listening is understanding why the words were spoken.
Mar
26
Walking along the road pushing Alba yesterday I realised there is no reset button for life. There really isn’t. All you can do is take all the experiences you’ve had, examine them, learn from them, and choose a new track….
Mar
19
I recently decided to do 10,000 push ups this year. That sounds a lot, it is, but it’s not as hard as you might think. Why 10,000 push ups? I consider myself an experiment of one. I am my own…
Mar
16
Excellent post from Seth on hypocrisy today. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2012/03/we-say-we-want-a-revolution.html Of course, what we say doesn’t matter so much. What we do is what matters, and we have far more influence that we’d like to confess. We say we want local merchants…
Mar
15
Excellent video by Ira Glass. Thanks to Stephen Baugh for posting it on his site – http://stephenbaugh.com/. Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo.
Mar
12
Yesterday I plugged our camera into my laptop and boom, I was back to the dark ages. My laptop’s hard drive was fried. I was alone. The usual panic, followed by swearing, and then a sense of relief. I have…
Mar
05
Yesterday saw the wedding of Lauren’s cousin go off without a hitch as Auckland put on one of its finest days. Weddings are generally a great time. Families get bonded together, fathers make heartfelt speeches, and mothers get to bask…