Archive for the 'Personal Development' Category

Doing The Thing

This 51-second video about NOT DOING THE THING is a fantastic reminder you can come back to whenever you or someone close to you gets off track with their goals.

Turbocharging Distinctions With Deliberate Practice And Consistent 1% Improvements

Understanding Distinctions: Your Edge in Business A distinction is not just a fact or observation but an actionable insight that highlights critical differences, drives better decisions, and clarifies the path to success. By mastering distinctions, you can move beyond surface-level data and create meaningful improvements in your business. This concept is even more powerful when […]

How to Use Distinctions for Success: A Practical Guide for Small Business Owners

Let’s dive into the concept of distinctions and how they can become a powerful tool for driving success in your business and achieving more of your New Year’s Resolutions. What is a Distinction? A distinction is a specific insight or principle that helps clarify a path to success. Unlike statements of fact or general observations, […]

Do you have a New Year’s Resolution to improve your communication skills?

One of the most popular New Year’s Resolutions is to improve communication skills. You definitely want to avoid Shredding your Similes and Mutilating your Metaphors… He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.  The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife’s infidelity came as a rude shock, like […]

Espresso Display – one of my 2025 products of the year declared in January?

I recently bought an Espresso Pro portable screen/display, the 4K 17” Pro. It’s manufactured in Australia and it shows. It’s FRICKIN’ GORGEOUS. As a lifelong Mac user, that says a lot. What I didn’t realise when I bought it was the power of Espresso Flow, a FREE app that works on Mac and Windows and does […]

Self-Sabotage Of New Year’s Resolutions: The Seven Stages

STAGE ONE: The Damage is Done This is the phase where the wheels have already come off the track. You’ve missed the gym for a week, binged on junk food, or skipped journaling for days. At this point, it feels like the resolution is a distant memory. You’re left with frustration, guilt, and a growing […]

Great parenting advice to help you achieve your New Year’s Resolutions

If you have New Year’s Resolutions and struggle to achieve them, this article on parenting advice is a great starting point. As adults, it’s often hard to be child-like again and act like a beginner when attempting something new. This article introduces the complex psychological construct of self-efficacy with a very simple framework anyone can […]

Antimimeticisomorphism: Visualising Rhythm

Antimimeticisomorphism is all about trying NEW things to get BETTER results. Today’s video is ideal for the Visual learner to SEE how rhythm ‘works’… IKR? Amazing!

What nature can teach us about business and social relationships

In nature, symbiosis refers to a close and prolonged relationship between two different organisms that typically benefits at least one of the participants. The symbiotic relationship can be of three different forms: Mutualism, commensalism and parasitism. Examples of the 3 types of symbiosis in nature: Mutualism: The relationship between bees and flowers is the classic […]

The secret math of New Year’s Resolutions

Many of us start the new year with the ritual of New Year’s Resolutions, but very few achieve them. One of the reasons is that the list is either too long or the goals too grandiose to be achieved in one year. However, it’s usually the underlying math that doesn’t quite add up. Intangibles are […]