Great Circle

You know that relentless chatter that goes on inside your own head? Like a running commentary on the world around you and your performance in it? Sometimes I’m aware of it and how it’s affecting me; sometimes I’m in control of it, using it to my advantage; at still other times it seems to run [...]

When you’re stressed, when you’re under pressure, when you’re juggling a million things, when you have deadlines, when your staff and clients aren’t playing ball, you might feel like the people in this vid. I help managers manage themselves so they can manage their “cats” better.

The Lilliputians in “Gulliver’s Travels”, remember those little guys? At one stage of the story, they note that Gulliver’s pocket watch is probably a god. This is because he rarely did anything without consulting it. He called it his oracle and said it appointed the time for every action of his life. “Travels” was written [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I bought some gingko to help me improve my memory. I keep forgetting to take it.

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 [...]

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 [...]