self-care
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Shine with age. Like a good red wine.
Testosterone or oestrogen impacts, or maybe wisdom, our biases change as we age. We start off like a bull in a china shop, competing to gain our independence physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. As we progress down the Maturity Continuum, we learn that life is by nature, highly interdependent. We get to understand the value…
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Balance, life’s leveller.
No matter what lens we look through, no matter what our past conditioning, no one can deny the value of BALANCE in all dimensions of our lives. The word “too” is the enemy of BALANCE. The biggest struggles in my life are defined by the word “too, mostly too much”; getting my balance in sink…
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Dual edged sword.
Sharpen your sword. The best investment that we can ever make is the investment in ourselves. You don’t need 100 self-help books, what you need is knowledge, action, and self-discipline. One of the dimensions of our lives that we should continually enhance is the physical dimension comprised of exercise, nutrition, and healthy sleep. Let’s…
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Stop whining and get on with it.
I keep hearing how difficult it is for first time home buyers to enter the housing market. The reason, high prices and high interest rates (4-5%). Many had the opportunity to enter the market in 2021 / 2022 when interest rates were practically zero (first world economies). A once in a lifetime gift horse for…
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Stay a graduate bear.
Don’t become a dinosaur. Stay relevant. Be adaptable and flexible, stretching yourself in ways that will expand your personal growth and development. It is obvious and it is mutual, employees help grow organizations and organizations must invest in the growth of their employees. Sustainable excellence in an era of relentless change and the complexities of…
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Lost to the internet.
In February of every year, I already witness commitments to health span evaporate. The most relevant and proven lifestyle habit to healthy living is physical exercise. Despite this, in the gym that I frequent, February attendance each year is about 40% down vs. January. Many gym starters can be seen on their mobile phones, scrolling…
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Where there is smoke …
The little things are the big things in relationships. There is no one magic bullet or quick fix in building relationships. But while there are no one bullet magic fixes, there are one bullet actions that can destroy relationships. Personal integrity is fundamental to trust in relationships. If people are inwardly duplicitous, that will…
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Your calendar tells a story
I am unimpressed when leaders tell me “my calendar is full”. They are mostly managing time and not themselves. If you agree that your role as a leader is to serve and inspire your teams, how can you achieve this if you are never available? Some leaders even believe that a big part of their…
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Team building. Habit, not an activity.
In preparation to facilitate “team building” events it was important for me to reflect on 2 + decades of corporate experiences in team building. My discovery, what a big difference between participating in arranged team building activities vs. the responsibility when supporting or leading team building for real value add. Looking back, I seldom arranged…
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Recruitment processes
Much of my learning is in the form of observing, listening, reflection, debating and valuing differences in cultures. The practice of HR personal recruitment, primarily in large multinational companies, is to quickly glance over CVs for certain criteria with a primary focus on study grades. Character assessment is basically irrelevant in that first screening to…
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