Great Circle

I’m pretty sure this story’s an urban myth, but I enjoyed it anyway. Hope you do too… 
Bill Wilson of Gold Coast, Australia was going up to bed when his wife told him that he’d left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window.
Bill opened the back door to [...]

“What if a diesel engine was built by someone who hates them?”
So begins Honda’s creative advertising (in the UK I think) for its revolutionised diesel engine. I’m not going to write anymore about Honda, because it’s the phrase that lead their campaign that caught my attention: Hate Something, Change Something, (Make Something Better).
What a great [...]

 
Think about the sheer volume of information contained in the internet. Think about the shelves of your local library. In many ways, we have all the information we will ever need to live lives that are satisfying, cohesive, productive, adventurous, collaborative, inspiring and inspired. And yet, despite the books, the videos, the seminars, the blogs(!), [...]

It can be thoroughly frustrating to work amidst unhealthy and unethical practises.
Defining yourself may be a goal that takes a lot of hard work, but you will retain your integrity AND you just might become the influence that prevents others from blindly following an organisation’s unhealthy practises and values.  
From the time we commence kindergarten, we are conditioned to find the quickest [...]

 
I am indebted to the excellent blogging and tremendous generosity of nutritionist Kathryn Elliot, who yesterday wrote about How to deal with a carb addiction  (my downfall!). Here’s an excerpt:
Beating carbohydrate cravings is all about managing your blood sugar levels and keeping insulin under control. Each time your blood sugar levels drop too low you will [...]

In January 2004, I injured my back. More accurately, one final injury connected the results of all the previous injuries along with a high degree of emotional stress, and the back decided to lock up for the next two years. Two years of acute and chronic pain with severe restrictions to what I could do. [...]

Ah, Shakespeare (in Hamlet) summed up my own love of books with those 3 words in the title above … er, that word in the title … er, that word repeated twice after it was written the first time … [sigh] …
Let’s start again. I love books. My good mate, Troy at Orbit Now has [...]

How much information do you have to manage each month?
Sometimes there’s so much coming at you that gaining anything from it is like drinking from a fire-hose! If you can’t turn down the volume of info, here’s some tips for absorbing the best from it without drowning:
1.    Have a specific reason for taking on the [...]