On a scale of 1 -10 how #stressed are you? I overheard a small business owner respond '8' and my wife is at 9.5! Wow 9.5! Incidentally they don't reside in Syria, but do have two healthy kids, a house, car, retirement portfolio, passive income and a multitude of friends and family. There s a danger that we frame a downturn in our business in such dramatic terms. Context is a great sanity drug. If we make happiness an impossible Everest to attain then the moderate slings and arrows of the daily grind really will bring us down. Embrace the moment and dial down imagined fears. Connect on LINKEDIN if you like. ![]()
If you are 50 years old or more you've shared the planet with at least 10% of all homeo sapiens who have lived since 50,000 BC.*
(* Source http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) If you were born yesterday the number is closer to 6%. #population_growth The considerable upside is the cumulative intellectual abundance we're exposed to. In 18 years we'll be competing for resources, power, employment, status, significance...or collaborating with the estimated 350,000 new borns who showed up yesterday, will show up again today, and everyday for the forceable future. #Collaboration is a much more sustainable long game. |
Not a slogan Nike would advocate! Without some context words such as persistence, patience, endeavor and dedication suggest a noble attitude to life matters. They symbolize ‘the stiff upper lip’ attitude to struggle. "Never ever give up"; to paraphrase Churchill goes to the heart of most self-help and personal development philosophy. The danger of blindly following this type of perseverance without considering its context is that more often than not, triumph does not overcome adversity, at the first attempt. There is a massive industry peddling personal development material. Books, Seminars, Webinars and all manner of strategies that range from useful and inspiring to borderline extortion. Harsh comment? I don’t think so. We live in a society that reveres its celebrities regardless of their substance. The personal development industry has its share of super rich ‘leaders’ who have attained a status within their tribe equivalent to religious pontiffs. Some of thes...
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