Two weeks ago I shared an invitation to my monthly Learning and Development Roundtable: Six skills to help you manage change. I started my post with “You’ve made your new year’s resolutions, you’ve been back at work for a month or so now and everything is ticking along smoothly. Your … [Read more...] about Discover ways to motivate yourself that work specifically for you Part two
Last week, I shared an invitation to my monthly Learning and Development Roundtable: Six skills to help you manage change. I started my post with “You’ve made your new year’s resolutions, you’ve been back at work for a month or so now and everything is ticking along smoothly. Your … [Read more...] about Discover ways to motivate yourself that work specifically for you
Grit, or your level of persistence in the face of challenges, is a wonderful thing. Truly. Your GQ - or grit quotient - is a key factor in your success. It means the difference between giving up at the faintest whiff of a challenge or persisting and breaking through barriers. Grit is … [Read more...] about Get your grit on (but know grit is not the same thing as banging your head against the wall!)
I was in one of my absolute favourite spots on earth, on safari at my dear friend Jackson’s Tangulia Camp, in the Masai Mara, and I saw a book a guest had left behind. I gobbled it up and it became one of my favourite books of 2021. The book was “Smarter, Faster, Better: the secrets of being … [Read more...] about Two surprising (and simple) things that great teams have in common
Let’s celebrate. We made it dear reader. Thirteen years and 1000 blog posts as of today. All thanks to you. It’s been an absolute pleasure to write for you. You’re always in the back of my mind I can’t tell the number of days I see, read or hear something and think, “that would make a good … [Read more...] about 1000! This is my 1000th blog post, and a chance for you to win
The countdown continues. This is my 999th blog post. All thanks to you dear reader. My first blog post in 2009 was “From my first African nocturnal visitor to my first Blog post.” See this post for top blog posts from 2010 to 2013. And see this post for top blog posts from 2014 … [Read more...] about 999! The countdown continues to my 1000th blog post, and a chance for you to win
The countdown continues. This is my 998th blog post. All thanks to you dear reader. My first blog post in 2009 was “From my first African nocturnal visitor to my first Blog post.” See this post for top blog posts from 2010 to 2013 And for the next four years, the most popular … [Read more...] about 998! The countdown continues to my 1000th blog post, and a chance for you to win
The countdown continues. This is my 997th blog post. All thanks to you dear reader. My first blog post in 2009 was “From my first African nocturnal visitor to my first Blog post.” For the next four years, the most popular blog posts were: 2010 If you hit this sign you'll … [Read more...] about 997! The countdown continues to my 1000th blog post, and a chance for you to win
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The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
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There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
