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Tuesday 22nd November 2011
I found this mini TED talk recently, about how doodling helps you process information and think creatively. It's less than six minutes long, but makes a great case for encourage doodling at work, in meetings, when you are stuck...(Anywhere, really.)
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Wednesday 12th October 2011
I am in California today, and on my way to New York tomorrow. As I was packing last week, I did the usual pruning of my first (huge) pile of stuff. It's such a wonderful moment when you finally succeed in reducing life's necessaries down to one small(ish) suitcase. Non-essentials stripped away, portability possible (at least until you go shopping!) and that sense of freedom to roam the world relatively unencumbered. The powerful realisation that you can actually live without that shirt, or piece of jewellery or gadget or....
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Tag: ideas
Monday 18th July 2011
I found this mini TED talk recently, about how to spread ideas in an innovative way. It's only a few minutes long, but really made me think about the power of a simple, tailored idea.
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Tuesday 28th June 2011
Here's the thing: I've known for a while now that I need to change some stuff in my life. I'm really comfortable helping others to change, but strangely, when it comes to MY life, at least in recent times, no luck. The other night I dreamed about escaping from my life, going away to a shack on a beach, writing and thinking and sleeping and walking and listening to music.
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Tag: ideas
Tuesday 22nd March 2011
As regular readers will know (love that phrase...) I have been having some ups and downs lately, such that I sometimes feel like Frodo in that scene in Lord of the Rings when Sauron turns his evil eye on those poor hobbits :) One of the downs was a bad ankle sprain. For various reasons, when it happened I wasn't able to follow the 'Rest, Ice, Compress, Elevate' advice and so of course it all swelled up and has taken now 5 weeks to get close to healing. Enough whingeing, you've got the look.
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Sunday 23rd January 2011
Would you rather be comfortable...or achieve your full potential? You can't have both. A great TED talk from Peter Bregman.
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