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You know the saying: “If it looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck – it probably is a duck.” Well, that kind of thinking might be all-right for the wise-old heads sitting in their rocking chairs but it’s not very useful if you’re desperately trying to get unstuck. The ‘duck’ in this case [...]
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Other people want you to change your opinion to suit them but they won’t change to suit you. They just go on living their lives. How does that work? Quote by My wife, 2010 John Donne said “the death of any man diminishes me” but I think a worse fate than being dead [...]
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“Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power. By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to his student; by words the orator sweeps his [...]
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In the hit film Inception Leonardo DiCaprio plays a man who can enter peoples’ dreams to steal corporate secrets. At one point (spoiler coming) he enters a businessman’s dream and is driving down a city street in a parade of cars when a 300-ton freight train juggernauts out of a side road and smashes into [...]
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Who would have thought that two little letters like ‘un’ could have such power? An innocuous little word, no, a prefix in fact but when added to words to make uncomfortable, unknown, unfamiliar – it has the power to make grown men cringe with fear. Perhaps it’s magic. As Sigmund Freud said “Words were once [...]
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Anyone here look like slave to you?” In the eighties there was a hilarious BBC comedy sketch series called The Real McCoy and one of my favourite clips was from Miss Rees (Miserys!) West Indian Restaurant. In one scene, a customer sits down and waits for the waitress to take his order. She rolls her [...]
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Are you a people blossumer’? Are you someone around whom people blossom? In nature the sun shines upon a bud and the flower unfurls in its entire beauty. Do you have this effect on people? Do people grow and change for the better because of your influence in their lives?I work as a professional effectiveness [...]
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In the sci-fi film Imposter (based on a book by BladeRunner author Philip K. Dick) the main character goes on the run after being accused of being an ‘imposter’ alien replicant. He escapes and in the final paragraph of the book finds his own flesh-and-blood dead body – at which point he exclaims: “If that’s [...]
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You don’t need self-esteem. Nope: You’re better off without it. Really. Your life will be measurably better when self-esteem is not an issue and out of the picture. Getting rid of it will mean you get a whole new perspective on life – literally. And I guess now you want me to justify what I just said [...]
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Traditionally, when we evaluate what direction to take our lives in we do a ‘values assessment’. This is a checklist of what you believe to be important to you. It might come out something like this (in a particular area): Business/Career Serving customers Creating a great product that adds value Paying for my South American [...]
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