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...

Our words. They are so powerful. I know on some days when I am feeling really low or “bummed out� – an encouraging word has boosted me for days afterwards. Because our words are powerful. An encouraging word can go much farther than we think. It can save someone from a damaging lifestyle or fu...

The Malcolm Gladwell book most people are currently reading is Outliers, an enjoyable collection of stories and studies which give some clues to the nature of success, most notably that (1) practise makes perfect and (2) 10000 hours should just about do it. Do read it if you haven't done so. The...

Can imagination be harmful? I have decided, that yes, it can. I have seen so much in my 37 years of living. As the years have gone on, the movies and television shows have changed. They have become darker, more daring, and more imaginative in their plots. In some ways that is good – but on the who...

We had such a great long Summer. We had it easy. The business just came on a-coming. Summer was so good and we were in such good cheer that we hardly noticed the cooler winds of Autumn/Fall; we just didn't really get around to preparing fully for the long hard cold Winter into which we hav...

Sometimes I get very disillusioned with people. It’s hard, at times, to continue to believe in people. It seems that so many are so caught up in survival mode or in protecting themselves, that they just don’t do what is right any more. Do we remember right and wrong? Do we remember what we were ...

While on retreat with my family in Maui, one of the books I am reading is a book by Malcolm Caldwell, author of the book OUTLIERS, and before that the landmark book (which everyone should read) THE TIPPING POINT. In the book Gladwell made a point which struck me like a ton of books, as it relates di...

The following is amended text from a letter I recently sent to a pre-imminent leader on the global stage, about "what I believe comes next." It is now an open letter to you, the pre-imminent leader in your own life. By John Hope Bryant These days people feel, rightly so, increasingly burned by what ...

Around this time of year we are often reminded of those amazing stories of German and British troops during the WWI conflict leaving their respective trenches on Christmas Day and sharing a cigarette, and singing a few carols together. And of course realising they were not so different to each other...