It’s an evening in December 2018. I am in the main downstairs room of the home in which I reside. It’s a home located in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, a city towards the upper Midlands of the country between two of the main cities of the country in Manchester and Birmingham. This main room has […]
Read More The Story I Buy Into – All Things NewI mentioned recently about how an incident got the power of the story to my attention in a really distinct way. There were a couple of stories it reminded me of that people buy into. ——— Story One: Glass Half Full Nothing is perfect. Yet look at the tremendous strides we have made over time. […]
Read More The Story You Buy Into – Two StoriesThere was an incident that took place recently which brought the power of story to sharp focus for me. A friend shared how she had been in an email dialogue with a new member of the workplace. The correspondent thought she could get friendly and familiar and call my friend pet names. My friend politely […]
Read More The Story You Buy Into – An IncidentIt’s something that you see in the football, that’s not just about the football. They’re not playing well. It must be the manager. He’s not getting the best out of them. They should be playing a lot better than that. They’re not playing for the manager. They’re not playing well. For the amount that was […]
Read More When They’re Not Playing WellYou ever hear a piece of music and get a taste of life? My daughters and I were listening to a piece of classical music and sharing what we heard in it. The thins we shared were about what life is like – happy moments remembering the good things that have happened. Within that there […]
Read More Hear the Life in the MusicJust thinking out loud. “We’re in a results driven business.” “At the end of the day, it’s what you bring in that matters.” “You know you have to take responsibility for the situation and believe you can turn it around.” Success is measured by the tangibles and the stats don’t lie. The attendance has dropped […]
Read More The Business We’re InThere were five of us in the household. Dad, Mum, my older sister, my younger brother and I. Looking back, the upbringing was fairly simple. My Dad wasn’t given to extravagances of any kind and wasn’t one to waste money at all. My Mum would be the one more likely to look at the occasional […]
Read More Small GainsIt is a point in life to seek to understand where the other person is coming from. That doesn’t take just sitting and listening to what is being said. That take active engagement in the conversation to further draw out the content and underlying concepts at place in what’s being delivered. There was an occasion […]
Read More Are We Talking About The Same Thing?There are certain phrases that make me chuckle. One of them that I heard being referred to is don’t get ahead of yourself It was something I heard whenever I got excited about something that I was going to do, or something I was going to get that I really wanted. Typically my Mum would […]
Read More Don’t Get Ahead Of YourselfAccording to the one earthly being I love above all others, I can sometimes use fifteen words to explain something that she might need in five. She prefers the five. She was overjoyed, then, when we sat around a table with some good friends sharing life together. One of our friends shared something very simple […]
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