Great Circle

If you’re on the verge of an important decision or faced with a great problem or a great opportunity, read on!
Ever played Chess?
In the greatest strategy game ever created, you don’t just roll the dice on your turn and move to the space indicated. You face multiple variations, possibilities, choices. You’re required to think carefully [...]

“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 [...]

Loved this post by Elly Jolly. It got me thinking about the way I so often utter wellmeaning commitments without thinking them through first.
Deciphering the difference between the promises you do make and the promises you have made in a rash moment helps us to keep in integrity.
Take time out and stop to think if you [...]

80% of Companies Won’t Fail in 5 Years - Do you own a start-up business and hear the horror stories and statistics that tell you you’re probably doomed? Think again…
Operation Order - a terrific lesson from the US Army on effective event planning for the frazzled leader.
The Benefit of Mistakes - a B&B owner takes a blogging-detour [...]

Remember when we were kids and ripping off that band-aid was such a trial? “I can’t do it: IT’S GONNA HURT!!!”
In my last Whetstone newsletter, I published a Laurie Beth Jones article on procrastination. In it, she made these points:
 We often choose the complicated ambling route … when if we just went straight at the challenges [...]

One of my pet hates with my own society is its increasing tendency to play the blame game:

“Something went wrong in my life. Whose fault is it?”
“I didn’t get what I wanted; who can I make pay?”
“Yes, I’m a bad-tempered egotistical pain-in-the-rear, but if you want to complain, go talk to my parents; [...]

I believe in all that has never been spoken.
I want to free what awaits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
may for once spring clear without my contriving.
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no [...]