In his book “the 7 habits of highly effective people“, Stephen Covey talks about habit number 7: “sharpen the saw”: principles of balanced self-renewal. You can’t cut a tree with a blunt saw. Equally, living life with a blunt mind does not work very well. One of the best ways to sharpen the mind is [...]
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Chris Hoy, who just picked up 3 gold medals in Beijing (making him the first British competitor to win 3 golds at a single Olympics since 1908) does. In fact, at the early age of 13 he wrote in his diary that one day he would win gold at the Olympics! …What goal do you [...]
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Being authentic is not something people talk about a lot. Maybe because it is a quality not much appreciated and not much sought after in our money oriented, materially emphasised, image and fame driven culture. Politicians have become spin masters, entertainers have become fame seekers, sportsmen have become idols. How much authenticity are our role [...]
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A quote that recently caught my eye and amused me: “What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don’t read the books.” – A. S. Byatt (post-modern novelist and poet)
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Often I get asked which management / leadership style is best? Autocratic or democratic? I was first challenged with this question by my training manager Yvonne Reynolds when I was 19 years old, a rookie in management training school with Taco Time Intl., a chain of Mexican style fast food restaurants based in the Pacific [...]
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“The real currency is energy” (My esteemed teacher Mr Luong Vi Kien)
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Do you ever feel like your mind is trapped on a treadmill? It keeps running and you can’t seem to stop it or even slow it down? A large majority of my prospects and clients ranging from business leaders, entrepreneurs, athletes and performing artists, come to me with this problem: “if only I could slow [...]
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When working with a new client, at the onset we take stock of where they are at and where they want to be. They typically write lists of what they wish for in life in terms of improvement. More often than not, most of everything they present to me is about doing and having. Doing [...]
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‘Welcome to flight ME 237, destination New York City’ says the Captain over the Intercom. ‘This is your Captain speaking, and I’ll be flying you to New York. Actually, I’ll be doing 10% of the flying, and the autopilot 90%. Only hitch is that I’m not quite sure who programmed it, and what they programmed [...]
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