productivity
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Unpack and forget!
FORGIVING IS NOT ENOUGH. Most of my life I accepted the principle of forgiveness. My Christian upbringing. But I struggled to forget. I would proudly talk about forgiving but never forgetting. I had to learn that forgiveness was not because the other party deserved it, but because I deserved the peace. I struggled with the biblical…
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Become proficient in psychology
Personality disorders are increasing, their impacts in relationships, business and politics are profound. I wish to have been more proficient in psychology earlier on. To have had an ability to recognize personality disorders before being boxed in. Mathematics was a compulsory school subject. I would support the same emphasis in psychology given the escalating percentages…
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Wide gaps in politics and in leadership.
I think that it was Dr Jordan Peterson who said that we are born either conservative or liberal, and that the world’s population is divided equally in these categorizations. And that directionally conservatives excel in management and liberals in entrepreneurship. It would be extremely beneficial if we valued these differences and focused on synergies, but…
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Look in the mirror and stop blaming!
It has been a while since I last wrote a post. Sometimes, like in this moment, frustrations get me to write, not with the purpose for others to read, but my own articulation of thoughts. Difficult times and challenges reveal an awful lot about people, and likely their part in either success or failure that…
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Throne dump.
It’s been a while. A controversial space, a spontaneous dump of random thoughts (unspoken) around gender debates and relationships seems a good place to start. It’s about mentality In most discussions people are telling others what to think. Better to be sceptical, the embryo of an enquiring mind. We can eliminate much of the bullshit by…
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Unspoken lessons
I encourage the benefits of proactive behaviour; doing stuff that matters before it becomes urgent. Even so, we will make mistakes and learn from them. Not only accepting that I will make mistakes, but I also now embrace hurdles and obstacles as necessary learning opportunities. This changed mindset and committed approach ensures that when…
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Is the 1st step bumpier?
Many quote that the first step is always the hardest, hence the saying “to start is to have completed half”. In my experience, the thing that holds us back is all in our mind, causing us to procrastinate. We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. We need to overcome the fundamental instinct to…
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Ripples of communism in capitalism.
Modern day capitalism is infected with greed, and in parts become dysfunctional; but that does not mean that we throw the baby out with the bath water. We need to reset, not to zero, but keep what is right in capitalism, and start from there. Democracy is not much different in the poison of extremism. …
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A spade is a spade. A heart is a heart.
I am asked if I would again pursue a role in corporate. The only way that I know how to answer is by calling a spade a spade, but with heart. Courageous leaders are forthright, but with consideration not to hurt. Maybe, but in a niche and with conditions. The role that I would favour…
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Pick up the phone.
LinkedIn is intended to be a professional and business forum. I think so anyway, yet the content and comments on LinkedIn too often mirror other social media platforms, shallow and with little substance. Numerous managers publicise their teams’ so-called successes (not substance) in LinkedIn posts or congratulate their teams in the comments section. If these…
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