If trying to manage money is like trying to catch water with a sieve, what they are our best strategies and tactics? Or should we be looking at the money question entirely differently?
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At the heart of being successful is a paradox. It’s a paradox that the most successful people I know have solved, although they may not be aware of it. And it’s the paradox that keeps those of us who are feeling frustrated about our success fro achieving everything we want.
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What’s the difference between a simple question that we google or that we ask a friend and move on, and those thorny questions that we chew around in our head for a long time, ask people for advice on, and yet never move forward? Let’s look at a practical solution…
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What does it take to live life happy? It takes seeing where problems are coming from and going upstream—dissolving them before they turn into something toxic. Let’s see how…
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A popular self-help rallying cry “if you believe it you can achieve it!”. But where has that led us other than to hard work and more hard work? Let’s take a look whether it’s true and what else we could believe in instead…
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It looks like much of development and innovation is to find a great solution and then scale it, roll it out to other areas, other countries, other contexts. But what if we’re missing something in this model? What if we’re missing the very thing that makes that first solution so brilliant?
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At an event on ‘coaching skills for social impact’ I asked myself what meaning we were making out of money—good or bad—and whether that was holding us back from doing our best work in the world…
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Making business easy looks like it should be about applying systems and structures. That’s not what my interviewee said ‘we’re the least structured we’ve ever been’. And making the most money!
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Should you live life hedging your bets, acting as if everyone is your enemy, or free-flowing, like the swallows in flight outside my window? Let’s have a look what advice Game of Thrones has to offer…
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There’s a quote from Bruce Springsteen that I heard this week that resonated with me as an approach to life in general. “When I’m on stage…. (read on for the rest)
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People are full of advice. And, we often look for it—what’s the latest tip or trick that will get us to where we want to be? How do we know what to trust and, what if ‘advice’ isn’t the thing that we need? Read on to find out more…
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