‘Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.’ Mary Pickford ‘Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can’t. The old boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.’ Willem Dafoe ‘Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles theContinue Reading Flexitypes for Personal Growth
I’m an adventurer at heart. I’m comfortable in big cities of the World, but it’s fair to say that the outdoors are my second home. People who aren’t adventurers, think adventurers must be miserable. And never content with what they have. My view, and I know I don’t necessarily speak for other adventurers, is thatContinue Reading A walk on the Flexibility wildside
‘Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’m possible’ Audrey Hepburn As an adult, each day we influence the World. And the World influences us back. On the bad days, it all seems a bit David and Goliath. On the good days, a simple walk in a public park, shows us the big, open skies.Continue Reading Self Determination and Personal Flexibility
A work colleague told me you shouldn’t judge people. The trouble is, our economic, political and legal systems depend on someone judging something. Judgement of a chief exec’s ability to build customer support. And create shareholder wealth. Voters on Election Day judging the government and its leader’s performance to date. Jurors deciding whether someone accusedContinue Reading Making Judgements and Personal Flexibility
The Royal Trinity Hospice in London apparently has a motto ‘living every moment’. It’s a great one for terminally ill people, to make the most of the life they have left. Essentially it’s about enriching time. If you’re pushed for time, try the technique of playing for time. Tell someone you can come up withContinue Reading Personal Flexibility and Time Management Revisited
‘If you can fill the unforgiving minute, with sixty seconds worth of distance run…’ Rudyard Kipling ‘Time and tide wait for no man’ Geoffrey Chaucer ‘Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way. Kicking around a piece of ground in your home town. WaitingContinue Reading Time Management and Personal Flexibility
Just as individuals at work make up teams, who make up organisations, so individual family members make up nuclear families who are part of wider family groupings too. Individuals also form networks with their friends, work colleagues and various online communities of interest in the wider world. Each interaction the individual has may vary in;Continue Reading Networks and Personal Flexibility
Firstly a caveat: this particular blog isn’t meant to offer specific financial advice to the reader about what investment products or investment classes to invest in. Readers should seek professional advice to help them understand the risks and choices available relating to financial products made available by particular providers. What is a household budget? ItContinue Reading Household Budgeting and Personal Flexibility
How does personal flexibility (PFL) help to manage uncertainty? First, let’s look at what uncertainty is and how it arises. What uncertainty is Firstly, uncertainty can be positive as well as negative. Why positive? Not knowing who your future soul mate is, or whether you will even find one, makes life exciting. And probably changesContinue Reading Managing Uncertainty and Personal Flexibility
Flexibility and friendships One form of personal flexibility (PFL) is in the crossover between personal friendships & workplace relationships. This blogger has first-hand experience of several professional relationships developing into personal friendships, forged from helping a friend-in-need, or through shared-conflict experienced. In this blogger’s view, the relationship combination works better where both parties are evenlyContinue Reading Human Relationships and Personal Flexibility