Motivation

Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People – Stephen R. Covey

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People® Dr Stephen Covey Dr Stephen Covey is an influential management guru, whose book The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People, became a blueprint for personal development when it was published in 1990. Habit 1 …

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Phil Esposito

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

Phil Esposito Born February 20, 1942 NHL Hall of Fame Inductee 1984 Stanley Cups – 1970, 1972 Phil Esposito’s morning routine as a child was layering sweaters and driving with his father in the morning darkness along empty roads to …

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The Value of Time

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

Have the words “I just don’t have enough time” ever passed your lips? Have you ever wished for an extra one or two hours in the day? It seems to be a common problem, but it’s not that there isn’t …

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Howard Schultz

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

Born 19 July, 1953 Chairman and CEO, Starbucks In 1981, working as the General Manager of Hammarplast, a Swedish drip coffeemaker manufacturer, Schultz traveled from New York to Seattle to check out Starbucks, a popular coffee bean store that had …

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More on Perspectives

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

I thought more about perspectives since entering yesterday’s blog, and I realised how my perspective is quite different to most people’s. This is mainly because I have travelled to many countries (31) and lived in four – Australia, Germany, England, …

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Perspectives

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

We live in a world with many where there seem to be many “truths” and absolutes. It’s wrong to steal. Giving is good. Drugs are bad. But these and all the other “rules” we live our lives by are not …

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Choices

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

The path we take in life is just that, it’s a path. Where that path goes is completely up to us. We make the choices and decisions which will guide our life in a certain direction. In fact where we …

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Keeping Up With The Joneses

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

After the Second World War the economies of the world shifted into overdrive and the industrial age, combined with mass marketing and increased wealth meant that it was possible for the Joneses, a mythical middle-class family to have more stuff …

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Patience

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

6:42am the alarm cuts through the air with its menacing beep. I hit the blue button and it stops. At precisely 6:48am the alarm sounds again loud enough it seems to wake up the neighbourhood. Silenced again by the blue …

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Jack of Clubs

Posted 14 years ago by Matthew

Take a moment to imagine you are in the audience at a small, intimate theatre, watching a magic show. The magician hands a deck of cards to a random member of the audience, asks her to check that it’s an …

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