Archive for June, 2010

Stupidly Positive

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006 who won £10,000 betting he would be alive years later, died at the age of 60 a few months short of collecting another £10,000 (BBC News - Buckinghamshire man who bet to beat cancer dies).  On the face of it, it ...

Killjoys

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

“Allowing people to take time out to watch football during working hours is simply too costly, untimely, and unfair,” so says Willem Smit, a researcher at the Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland. It is amazing just how much the pursuit of production and profit is held up as justification not to ...

Self Help Begins At Home

Friday, June 4th, 2010

If you walked into one of the most successful people in the world's home or office, would you expect to find row after row of self help DVDs/CDs and books?  Have you seen any on MTV's ‘Cribs’ and 'Who lives in house like this?' Thought not. Americans spent $11 billion in ...

Stocktake Time Again – Big Changes on the Horizon

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

In exactly one month’s time, I will change my status once again from employed to self employed.  Since it has been a long time since I have took stock of where I am, now would seem to be an appropriate time to do so.  This is where I think I ...

Living Well vs. Doing Well

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

“This notion — that material investment is somehow more important to life than personal investment — is exactly what leads so many of us to believe we could never afford to [insert whatever it is you personally want to do]” with apologies to Rolf Potts, author of Vagabonding,  for paraphrasing. One ...