Warm-up day Monday is completed so you are now really up-and-running; In all languages it's the day associated with Mars, the god of war, so it's clearly not a day anyone is going to mess with you; It sounds oddly similar to Choose-Day: a great day for making some powerful choices abou...

Working hard definitely produces results, but it’s rarely a linear 1-to-1 relationship. More people will block you than encourage you. Thank those who encourage you so they are are inspired  to do more. It is a less Newtonian and Cartesian   world than our science lessons taught us: we...

Your writing is coming along nicely. It's time to think about a publisher. Now if you know a bit about these things, you may have thought that with a non-fiction book - unlike a novel of course - you tend to pitch an idea first before writing. Theoretically so. And once you're established yo...

A professional has a pen; doesn't complain about jet lag; it came with the job they accepted; gets places on time. Whatever. Is friendly at the check-in desk. Not just to get a free up-grade. Knows what's important. Doesn't ever, ever say: I don't have time. That's a given: they ...

So much of what would we took to be certain: qualifications and career link; pension plans; the enemy; a long-term career: is no longer certain. Return to what is irrevocably certain: The Certainty Principles. The back-story is here. In an Age of Uncertainty, return to what does remain timeless, cer...

Even at Complete Conglomerates Inc, 730 am was a relatively quiet time. Tom Widewolf left the elevator at floor 6 and headed down the long corridor to the Inner Sanctum where his team had been hard at work since around 530am. His hand-made Church’s shoes were perfect to support him through what wo...

So: what do you write about? That shouldn’t be the main problem. Ideally you will want to write about something; you simply need to refine it to make it marketable. The key is to channel your passion. What is it? Leadership? Snow-boarding? Chinese Cookery? Writing your book, convincing...

We love certainty. That the weather will be good. That our favourite author's new novel will be as good as the last. That our pension plan will still be worth something. And having suffered huge periods of uncertainty in the history of mankind, we got it together and in all fields: science, fina...

The back story….anthropologists at The University of Madup have been shocked to discover that Home Berriens which was thought to be a rare sub-species of Homo Sapiens has in fact developed at such a rate it has become a significant part of the adult population.    Predominantly male, a...

Level 1: home+1h. Remember to re-set phone so you don't miss the meeting. Level 2: home+2/3h. A double espresso helps re-set the lagging physiology. Level 3: home+4/5h. Writing stuff down becomes essential e.g. name of hotel where staying. Level 4: home+5/7h. Craving for plain boiled rice ...