Great Circle

Mid-August, it was my pleasure (along with the two managers of Eastwork Employment and Training pictured here with me) to accept an award for outstanding program design and delivery from the Victorian Minister for Education, Jacinta Allan. The Succeeding at Work pre-accredited program was one I designed for Eastwork Employment a year ago to support jobseekers with [...]

Best Thing I Came Across Online: Parenting Advice in Pictures (sample of How to Stop Choking article below). Best Thing I Came Across Off-line: The twister-like phenomenon near my house. By the time I got the camera and snapped off the photo below, it had begun to dissipate. But this is something you don’t see [...]

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 [...]

Is this confidence, adrenaline addiction or mere silliness? You be the judge… Gotta admire their kahunas! (or Photoshop skills!)

I just read the latest post by Rosa Say & it really got me thinking (particularly the question she leaves us with). My thoughts go something like this: So often … we rush on to the next thing without enjoying what already is … we reach a milestone but see it as a measure of how far we still have to go … we [...]

  A great friend of mine has added an oh-so-helpful resource to his blog: the 5-word Coffee Shop Review. If you are visiting Melbourne Australia or live in this wonderful city, this is a must. My favourite review was for Starbux: “The Antichrist of coffee. Resist“) Go to My Opinions are Important  

“Why do today what you can put off til tomorrow?” This is the unfortunate motto of many an unfulfilled person, a person whose potential is far from realised. Procrastination has been called an “energy leak of the soul.” It’s the “Path MOST Traveled”! The circumstances we live in today are partly due to choices we have made before. [...]

I was talking about the way water looks different on clear days and cloudy days. I told my six year old son  (above) that water looked better on nice blue-sky days. He replied that all days are nice days – “the blue days and the silver days.” “Silver days? What’s a silver day?” I asked. [...]