Vision

Your vision is the big picture road map to where you want to go. Set your vision and the plans to get there will follow. Setting your vision can be a tough task first time around, but done properly it can help you clarify and answer many nagging questions. Why not start today? Ask me how.

Creating a Personal Vision Statement

Posted ago by Matthew

What is a personal vision statement? A personal vision statement is the road map that guides us to the destination we have set for ourselves.  Just like a road map it helps us see further into the future than we …

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A Different Perspective

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Ever since I was about six or seven years old I wanted to be able to solve the Rubik’s cube. One of my friend’s older brother knew how to do it and loved to show me how quickly he could …

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Priorities – 8 Questions to Ask

Posted ago by Matthew

When people say they don’t have enough time to do something, what they are really saying is that it isn’t a high enough priority.  It always amazes me how a funeral with over a hundred attendees can be organized in under …

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Persistence

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It’s now mid February, and statistically we’re at about the point when most of people’s new year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside. I notice it especially at the gym, where in early January, the crowds flock.  With Christmas weight …

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Boldly Going Nowhere

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How often do you feel like you’re the hamster running furiously on the hamster wheel?  I walk to work every morning and pass by an old car covered in hundreds of stickers.  I think the stickers are keeping the old rust …

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Goldcorp Case Study

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A fascinating story about turning conventional wisdom on its head and how a business profited from utlising the brain-trust of the whole world. In January 1848, a work crew at John Sutter’s mill, near Sacramento, California, came across a few …

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The 4% Rule

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I was chatting with a friend the other day and discussing goals and setting a life vision.  Her concern was that she was working to pay her mortgage and her bills and not to fulfill her dreams.  She couldn’t see …

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The Big Picture

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I used to be someone who worried.  When I was at school I worried about my up-coming exams or a spelling test.  When I left school I worried about a job interview or a date with a girl.  Heck, I worried about asking the …

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Man’s Search for Meaning – Dr. Viktor Frankl

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“We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken …

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Expectations

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“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…” so the tune goes. It seems that Christmas begins the day after Halloween, with the decorations, the music and all the paraphernalia that goes with it. And certainly it’s a fun time …

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