With my new job I am getting the benefit of being in an innovative, constantly changing environment. If you just work to be another body, going through the motions earning a paycheck until you either get fired, retire or die. Then you would probably not like it. Personally? I love it. Being given a new opportunity … Continue reading How are you adding value?
Manifesto of Perfection: 5 Essential Self-Improvement Posts
I have run the Manifesto of Perfection for over a year. During that period I have spent a lot of time talking about Self-Improvement. For my goal setting month I have picked out my five favourite posts. You're never too old to learn new things When I finished school I did not know where to … Continue reading Manifesto of Perfection: 5 Essential Self-Improvement Posts
Friends and Self-Improvement
"Birds of a feather flock together" Friends are the biggest influence in our lives, even more than family. If you don't believe me, look at many school reports for badly behaved children. They will be full of things like: He is a good person, he's just in the wrong crowd.,,,, She has potential but her … Continue reading Friends and Self-Improvement
One Way System Hell: The Road Trip to Leicester
Goal: Drive to a new place One of my new year goals was to drive somewhere new. It was over a year since I past my driving test and my main experience was the commute to work. When I decided to do a race in the Midlands I saw it as a chance to push those … Continue reading One Way System Hell: The Road Trip to Leicester
How to set goals
As I start off goal setting month, the best place to start is from the beginning, as I show how I set goals. If you have never done this before get a sheet of paper and write down what you want to achieve. Simplicity On the paper you will have a variety of ambitions. Some … Continue reading How to set goals
Manifesto of Perfection Goal Setting Month
It is now March. Perhaps the New Year resolution has fallen by the wayside. Maybe your a habitual goal setter, but your objectives are a bit stale and the enthusiasm is no longer there. Maybe you don't have goals at all. I have decided for March, purely because I have got so much out of … Continue reading Manifesto of Perfection Goal Setting Month
3 great self-improvement websites
If you are like me and enjoy a lazy Sunday going on the Internet, but like to spend your time as productively as possible. Might I suggest some website for you to visit today and why I think they are great. 1. TED I will get the obvious one out of the way. I am … Continue reading 3 great self-improvement websites
How failing goals can be good
When I first started the Manifesto of Perfection. It functioned as a tool to meet my writing goals and more importantly as a way of keeping me accountable to the objectives I set. Around November last year I looked back at what I had originally set out to do and was sad, as I felt … Continue reading How failing goals can be good
Winners guilt
I don't really win much. I don't really win ever. It's not through lack of effort, but occasionally a combination of my hardwork, determination, luck and good decisions pays off. It's nice that hardwork does occasionally pay off because I put a lot of faith in it - usually to my disappointment this has not … Continue reading Winners guilt
The clock
The Clock - Dave Allen "We spend our lives on the run: we get up by the clock, eat and sleep by the clock, get up again, go to work - and then we retire. And what do they give us? A clock." Dave Allen was an innovative comedian in the UK comedy scene during … Continue reading The clock
3 attitudes to a better life
Life is great. Yet we take for granted the small things, such as access to education, health care and sanitation. Many of us are miserable as we express dissatisfaction in every area of are lives. I did not have a great start last year - I was miserable. But by the end of last year … Continue reading 3 attitudes to a better life
2 steps to making change
It is nearly time for many to make New Years resolutions. It is not up to me to say what you want to change in your life, but in 2014 - a year where I had a lot of changes, I found that the following approach was the best attitude to making a change..... Step … Continue reading 2 steps to making change
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