Author Archives for Pete
Drinking from the Fire Hose!
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 [...]
One of My Personal Ironies
I bought some gingko to help me improve my memory. I keep forgetting to take it.
Clean Desk, Clear Head!
Piles of paper on your desk and bookshelves. Books double-stacked. Your computer “desktop” covered with files, folders and shortcuts. Your hard-copy diary filled with documents requiring action; while Microsoft Outlook throws up a dozen reminder-notices every time you open it. If you left your office looking like this last Friday, you might want to consider some small [...]
Life Coach or Life Tweaker
An older post from Seth Godin reads like this: Where are the tweakers? If I want my car to go a bit faster, there’s a garage in town that will tweak it for me. If I want my stereo to sound a little better, there’s a guy who will install cables [...]
Writer’s Carnival recap
The Carnival of War has ended… Many many thanks to all the authors who participated in September’s Guest Writers Carnival here at Great Circle. The effort you put in and the quality of your contributions is admirable. For newcomers to the site, here’s the full list. Please leave an encouraging comment or two on our [...]
How I’m Winning the War on Brain-Chaos!
It’s morning, my family has left the house and so begins another day of self-directed work. Like many days when I am not out of my home office training or coaching people, I am planning to begin with a time of “getting centred”, but wander into the home office for “a second”… I say to myself, ”I’ll just [...]
Carnival of War – coming soon!
Starting Monday 3rd September, it’ll be my pleasure to host Great Circle’s first Guest Writers’ Carnival. We’ve all heard of the dubiously titled ”war on terror”. The least said about that the better … So, I’ve asked some of my favourite writers to contribute a piece around the theme of “How I Won the War on ________ “. [...]
